Senior Analytics Business Partner

Surescripts; United States; Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare

Generous paid time off

Pet insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Surescripts is seeking a Senior Analytics Business Partner to drive data-driven initiatives across healthcare and health tech. You will collaborate with data and analytics teams, business leaders, and customers to identify value, align roadmaps, and translate ideas into technical requirements while guiding the delivery lifecycle.

You will educate stakeholders on analytics value, lead idea elaboration, prioritize outcomes, and ensure sustainable value through iterative development and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in related, progressive roles.
• 2+ years as a Product Owner, System Analyst, Business Analyst, BI Analyst, or similar role.
• 2+ years driving projects independently.
• Experience in healthcare or healthcare technology.
• Demonstrated expertise in the data & analytical life cycle.
• Experience presenting to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with project management tools like JIRA; familiarity with databases and reporting technologies.

Responsibilities

• Shape data and analytics roadmaps and ensure solutions align with strategies.
• Serve as liaison between business owners, end users, and analytics teams.
• Act as SME for existing reporting capabilities.
• Understand Data Governance constraints impacting requests.
• Own backlog prioritization and coordination with engineering management.
• Lead cross-functional teams to identify high-value opportunities and define requirements.
• Document workflows, use cases, and business requirements.
• Apply user-centered design to meet end-user needs.
• Assist planning data delivery for rapid value.
• Decompose and size development projects with engineering.
• Communicate milestones, progress, and ETA; escalate issues as needed.
• Support final user acceptance testing and capture enhancement requests.
• Collaborate with SMEs and Tech Leads to develop detailed requirements.
• Provide input to continuous improvement of intake and delivery processes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Business analysis

Product owner

JIRA

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JIRA

SQL/Databases

Data visualization

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 toolFamiliarity 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

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.

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 Aff…?

• comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage)
• generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days
• pet insurance
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting

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.