Senior Analytics Business Partner

Surescripts; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Hybrid Work model

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Surescripts is seeking a Senior Analytics Business Partner to drive data-driven decisions across our healthcare technology platforms. You will partner with internal customers and external stakeholders to define value, align roadmaps, and deliver analytics solutions that solve real business problems.

You will educate the business on analytics value, translate ideas for technical teams, and shepherd initiatives from concept to sustainable results, balancing speed and governance in a dynamic

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in related, progressive roles.
• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, System Analyst, Business Analyst, BI Analyst, or closely related role.
• 2+ years of experience driving projects independently.
• Experience working in the healthcare or healthcare technology industry.
• Demonstrated expertise in the data & analytical life cycle.
• Experience with managing stakeholders and reconciling competing priorities.
• Experience presenting complex material to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with JIRA or a similar PM tool.
• Familiarity with database and reporting technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape data & analytical roadmaps and ensure alignment with strategy.
• Serve as a liaison between business owners, end users, and analytics engineering teams.
• Act as a subject matter expert in existing reporting capabilities.
• Help the business understand Data Governance requirements and constraints.
• Own prioritization and backlog reconciliation with data analytics teams.
• Lead cross-functional teams to identify high-value data opportunities and clarify requirements.
• Document workflows, use cases, and business requirements for alignment.
• Use user-centered design practices to ensure requirements meet end users' needs.
• Assist teams in planning data delivery for rapid value, incrementally.
• Work with engineering to size development projects.
• Share project milestones, progress, and ETA updates with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with SMEs to create detailed business and system requirements.
• Provide input to improve intake, prioritization, and delivery processes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Requirements gathering

Communication

Healthcare analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions - from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.

Job Summary

The Senior Analytics Business Partner performs a vital role in creating a data-driven culture, unlocking the value of data by working closely with internal and external customers to define and prioritize value, align roadmaps, and deliver analytical solutions that meet deep business needs within the healthcare and healthcare technology ecosystem.

The Senior Analytics Business Partner works with members of the Data & Analytics team, Surescripts' business leaders, and Surescripts' customers to discover, define, and communicate data-driven business opportunities. The Senior Analytics Business Partner plays a key role in educating the business about the value potential of analytics, leading the elaboration of business ideas, prioritizing value, translating business ideas to the technical teams, facilitating feedback throughout development lifecycle, and ensuring the successful delivery of sustainable value.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape data & analytical departmental roadmaps and vision; ensures analytical solutions align with corporate and departmental strategies and requirements.
• Serve as a liaison between departmental business owners, end users, and the data & analytics engineering teams.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in existing reporting capabilities.
• Help the business understand Data Governance requirements and constraints that may impact their requests.
• Own the prioritization and reconciliation of the end-to-end Data & Analytics development backlog, collaborating with Data & Analytics Engineering Management and other Data Solutions Owners.
• Lead cross-functional teams through the process of identifying highest value business opportunities in data processes and efficiencies, clarifying requirements, and setting business expectations.
• Ensures alignment by Document workflows, process diagrams, business use cases, business requirements, and other documentation as required to ensure alignment with business needs.
• Leverages best practices in user-centered design to ensure requirements meet the needs of end users.
• Assist Data & Analytical engineering teams plan data delivery to ensure rapid, incremental delivery of business value.
• Work with engineering to decompose and size development projects.
• Responsible for sharing knowledge, including communication of milestones, progress, challenges, escalation of issues, and ETAs.
• Manage the final user acceptance testing of delivered data solutions, capturing any additional enhancement requests for future phases.
• Work with technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Tech Leads to help create detailed business requirements and technical system requirements.
• Provide input into continuous enhancement of the overall intake, prioritization, and delivery processes.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in related, progressive roles
• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, System Analyst, Business Analyst, Business Intelligence Analyst, or closely related role
• 2+ years of experience driving projects independently
• Experience working in the healthcare or healthcare technology industry
• Demonstrated expertise in the data & analytical life cycle
• Experience at working with manager levels and above to reconcile competing business priorities
• Experience presenting complex material to non-technical, non-specialized audiences
• Experience with JIRA or a similar project management and issue-tracking software tool
• Familiarity with database and reporting technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing or developing data & analytical solutions in the healthcare technology field
• Ability to condense complex technical information and tradeoffs into brief, concise, business-level language
• Change management experience
• Experience in industry standards such as NCPDP, X12, HL7, FHIR
• Experience with data visualization and analytical techniques
• Training or experience with software development life cycle processes, including Agile development
• Experience in Data Governance in a healthcare setting

Keywords: product owner, healthcare, projects, data, products

#LI-REMOTE

Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilizing our offices as collaboration centers. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surecripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or provide sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programs or work-study programs through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F-1/CPT or F-1/STEM.

We're a midsize company. This means you're not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way. We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.

At Surescripts, base pay is one part of our Total Rewards Package (which may also include bonus, benefits etc.) and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this position is $141,700 - $173,100 per year. Your base pay may vary within or outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including (but not limited to) your qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affi­ mative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.