Healthcare Analytics Engineer - Procurement Insights

Aquent; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent partners with a leading healthcare organization to empower data-driven decisions. This analytics role designs and maintains self-serve dashboards, leads cross-functional initiatives with finance and supply chain, and optimizes spend and working capital.

You will establish robust data governance, validate cost savings, and enable teams with advanced analytics, forecasting, and scenario modeling to drive strategic outcomes in healthcare operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with 5+ years leading analytics, BI, procurement, or finance analytics initiatives.
• Strong SQL skills for complex data extraction, reconciliation, and validation.
• Proven expertise in dashboards using Power BI or equivalent BI tool.
• Experience forecasting, projections, benchmarks, and performance metrics to inform decisions.
• Ability to document data flows, definitions, and data governance rules.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and maintain self-serve analytics dashboards, reports, scorecards, and analyses across payments, procurement, supplier management, and savings.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Finance, Category Management, Supplier Management, and IT teams.
• Analyze invoice data, payment cycles, PO data, and spend to identify improvements.
• Develop forecasting models for spend, savings, and contract renewals; track forecast performance.
• Perform supplier analytics, assess risk and contract metadata to enable rationalization.
• Coordinate validation with Finance to ensure cost-savings accuracy and avoid duplicate recognition.
• Benchmark procurement metrics against market data to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Establish data quality and governance: validation rules, reconciliations, audits, source-to-report docs.
• Collaborate with IT on data mapping and reporting requirements; provide user documentation.

Skills

SQL

Power BI

Dashboard design

Forecasting

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Oracle

Coupa

Zip

iCertis

Job description

Aquent partners with a leading healthcare organization to empower data-driven decisions. This analytics role designs and maintains self-serve dashboards, leads cross-functional initiatives with finance and supply chain, and optimizes spend and working capital.

You will establish robust data governance, validate cost savings, and enable teams with advanced analytics, forecasting, and scenario modeling to drive strategic outcomes in healthcare operations.