Healthcare Cost Analytics Strategist

Highmark Health; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 79,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Inc. is seeking a seasoned professional to analyze medical cost data and deliver strategic insights into cost trends. You will work with large data sets to tell a clear story and influence business decisions.

The role requires strong technical skills in SAS, SQL, R, and data visualization tools, plus experience in healthcare analytics and communicating with executive partners.

Qualifications

• 5 years of Medical Economics, Healthcare Analytics, Informatics and/or Actuarial Services in the health care payer sector.
• Strong communication with business partners in communicating outcomes, partnering on analytics, and developing new approaches.
• Experience in building dashboards and visualizations to support strategic hypotheses.
• Solid knowledge of emerging trends and challenges in the healthcare industry.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic/tactical insights into emerging medical cost trends. Develop executive ready presentations explaining analytical findings clearly.
• Proficiency to extract, summarize and analyze large datasets via SAS, SQL or other similar tools.
• Provide business areas with opportunity assessments of their strategic medical cost programs. Coordinate savings opportunity projections and post implementation savings measurements.
• Leverage analytical experience to drive independent medical cost analytics and present insights to key business partners.
• Strong communication skills to present clear analytics in a matrixed environment.
• Work with other departments to develop the full analytical story.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Executive communication

Healthcare analytics experience

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Health, Economics, Mathematics/Actuarial Sciences or related area

Master's Degree in Business, Health, Economics, Mathematics/Actuarial Sciences or related area

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Highmark Inc. is seeking a seasoned professional to analyze medical cost data and deliver strategic insights into cost trends. You will work with large data sets to tell a clear story and influence business decisions.

The role requires strong technical skills in SAS, SQL, R, and data visualization tools, plus experience in healthcare analytics and communicating with executive partners.