Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Pharmacy Lead) - Remote

Socket.dev; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedars-Sinai is seeking a Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Pharmacy Lead) to be a strategic analytics partner for pharmacy operations. You will translate business needs into actionable insights, deliver high-value reporting, and collaborate with data engineers, clinicians, and IT to enable data-driven decisions.

The ideal candidate has extensive pharmacy analytics and client-support experience, with proficiency in SQL, Python, and Epic Willow, plus strong stakeholder engagement and project

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in pharmacy analytics or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience supporting pharmacy clients, leaders, pharmacists, clinicians, or healthcare operations teams.
• Strong understanding of pharmacy workflows and performance measures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor and primary contact for pharmacy clients and stakeholders.
• Lead client engagement, discovery sessions, and consensus-building to understand analytics needs.
• Translate pharmacy workflows and business questions into data, reporting, and analytics requirements.
• Analyze medication utilization, dispensing, inventory, formulary management, and access.
• Manage analytics projects from concept through requirements, development, testing, deployment, and training.
• Collaborate with report developers, data engineers, IT, and pharmacy leaders to deliver solutions.
• Provide QA, data validation, reconciliation, and end-user support for reports and dashboards.
• Use internal and external data to analyze complex pharmacy problems and identify opportunities.
• Provide subject matter expertise on pharmacy reporting systems and performance measures.
• Mentor peers and lead complex initiatives as needed.

Skills

Pharmacy analytics

Healthcare analytics

Client support

Data analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder engagement

SQL

Python

Epic Willow

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy / Health Informatics / IT / Analytics

PharmD or pharmacy informatics experience

Tools

SQL

Python

Epic Willow

Job description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Building on a legacy of innovation, Cedars-Sinai is harnessing rapidly evolving breakthroughs in AI technology to enhance patient care, improve efficiency, advance scientific discovery, and cultivate greater physician and staff wellbeing.

The organization’s Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed “CHIME Digital Health Most Wired” recognition program. Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10 - the most prestigious level of certification - among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations. Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple verticals and particularly excelled in areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.

Why work here?

Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What you will be doing:

The Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Pharmacy Lead) serves as a strategic partner and primary analytics resource for pharmacy clients, leaders, clinicians, and designated staff. This role focuses on understanding pharmacy operations, supporting client needs, translating business requirements into actionable insights, and delivering high-value reporting and analytics solutions across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines strong pharmacy operations and client-support experience with the ability to work comfortably with data, reporting tools, and technical teams. Technical experience with SQL, Python, artificial intelligence, and Epic Willow is beneficial, but the primary emphasis is on pharmacy domain expertise, stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, and successful delivery of pharmacy analytics and reporting solutions.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact for pharmacy clients, operational leaders, pharmacists, clinicians, and other end users.
• Lead client engagement, discovery sessions, and consensus-building activities to understand pharmacy reporting and analytics needs.
• Translate pharmacy workflows, operational challenges, and business questions into clear data, reporting, and analytics requirements.
• Support pharmacy operations through analysis of medication utilization, dispensing, inventory, formulary management, medication access, clinical services, financial performance, quality, and efficiency measures.
• Lead strategic pharmacy analytics and reporting projects from initial concept through requirements documentation, development, testing, deployment, training, and ongoing support.
• Collaborate with report developers, data engineers, IT teams, pharmacy leaders, and other cross-functional partners to deliver reliable and usable solutions.
• Provide quality assurance, data validation, reconciliation, issue investigation, and end-user support for pharmacy reports and dashboards.
• Use data from internal and external sources to analyze complex pharmacy and operational problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provide subject matter expertise on pharmacy reporting systems, tools, workflows, and performance measures.
• Mentor peers and demonstrate leadership on complex initiatives as needed.

*Prefer someone living locally or willing to relocate to LA area, but open to remote in Approved States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Texas*

Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

Ten (10) plus years of experience in pharmacy analytics, pharmacy operations, healthcare analytics, business analysis, data analysis, client support, or a related field.

Demonstrated experience supporting pharmacy clients, pharmacy leaders, pharmacists, clinicians, or healthcare operations teams.

Strong understanding of pharmacy workflows, processes, performance measures, and operational challenges.

Experience facilitating requirements-gathering sessions, performance-improvement initiatives, reporting projects, or quantitative analyses.

Demonstrated ability to manage the full analytics delivery lifecycle, including business and clinical understanding, requirements documentation, data analysis, testing, deployment, training, and end-user support.

Ability to communicate effectively with pharmacy stakeholders and translate between business needs and technical requirements.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, Health Informatics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.

A PharmD, master’s degree, pharmacy informatics experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience is preferred.