Manager Advanced Analytics

highmarkhealth; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health in Pittsburgh, PA, seeks an experienced analytics leader to guide advanced capabilities for population health and clinical outcomes. You will coordinate a multi-disciplinary team, shape strategy, and deliver production-ready analytical solutions for leadership decisions.

The role requires deep expertise in statistics, ML, and communicating complex results to non-technical stakeholders. Expect strong collaboration across internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in STEM or Bachelor's Degree with 3+ years in lieu of a Master's.
• 7 years in Data Analytics, Academic Research, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with large data sets and predictive modeling preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary analytics initiatives to deliver and maintain advanced capabilities.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, vendors, and teams to drive strategy and backlog.
• Translate analyses into actionable business insights and governance-ready outputs.
• Mentor staff, manage performance, and oversee day-to-day operations.

Skills

Analytics

Agile

Stakeholder Management

Presentation

Communication

People Management

Project Management

Education

Master's Degree in STEM

Bachelor's Degree + 3 years relevant work experience

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

Uses their personal advanced analytics expertise to coordinate a multi-disciplinary team to deliver, maintain and enhance one of our Advanced Analytics capabilities in the scope of clinical and population health. Working with internal stakeholders, vendors and external contacts, this role requires significant and deep subject matter expertise to drive the strategy of the capability they own. Draws on tools and methods from statistics and machine learning to assist and oversee the development of advanced analytic products and capabilities, and drive projects through to delivery of the intended outcome. The team's focus is evaluating health outcomes of clinical engagement programs, using clinical data and industry knowledge to assist leadership in making insightful data-driven decisions to improve population health, and aligning leadership understanding of clinical utilization to plan financial outcomes.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Perform management responsibilities to include, but are not limited to: involved in hiring and termination decisions, coaching and development, rewards and recognition, performance management and staff productivity. Plan, organize, staff, direct and control the day-to-day operations of the department; develop and implement policies and programs as necessary; may have budgetary responsibility and authority.

Create and communicate the product/capability vision, strategy and roadmap across multiple products or capabilities. Own the product/capability backlog and uses multi-stakeholder input to refresh and re-prioritize the backlog to drive business value. Clearly articulates backlog items and acceptance criteria to the team, and represent the capability in all governance meetings. Proactively identify new initiatives/themes and builds out backlog items under these new initiatives or themes based upon value. Empower team to manage their work by setting clear priorities and success metrics against the backlog.

Work directly with the business to understand their questions, business processes, programs and/ or initiatives, then oversee the identification and delivery of analytical solutions which support them to deliver value in production. This requires technical flexibility, strong knowledge of and delivery record in advanced analytical approaches.

Consult with the business to contextualize and translate the results of our analysis in a form which the business can understand and act upon. This will be include written reports, presentation and data visualizations, and draws clear lines between the high-level problem specifications, the analyses performed, and how the results link directly back to business objectives. Network in the wider organization to find new stakeholders and broaden the impact of the advanced analytic products / capabilities.

Research self-directed new analytical skills and approaches, building relationships internally and externally to transfer knowledge and maintain their position as subject matter experts, consult with fellow data scientists and analysts to guide analysis and deliver larger projects.

Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

Master's Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) OR Bachelor's Degree + 3 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a Master's Degree

Preferred

Master's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)

EXPERIENCE

Required

7 years of Data Analytics, Academic Research, and/or Work Experience

2 years of Data Analytics, Academic Research, and/or Work Experience (if PhD Education)

To Include

1 year of Using Large Data-sets

1 year in Predictive Modeling or Advanced Statistics

1 year presenting complex analytics to non-technical audiences

Preferred

3+ year in Healthcare Industry

1 year in Research and Development

1 year in Medicaid/D-SNP/LTSS

1 year in Consulting

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Required

None

Preferred

None

SKILLS

Analytics

Agile

Stakeholder Management

Presentation

Communication

People Management

Project Management

Language (Other than English)

None

Travel Required

0% - 25%

PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type

Office-Based

Teaches / trains others regularly

Frequently

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site

Never

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)

Never

Physical work site required

No

Lifting: up to 10 pounds

Frequently

Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds

Occasionally

Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds

Rarely

Disclaimer

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