Strategic Insights Associate, Data Analytics

name; Tempe (AZ); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

Oscar is hiring a Strategic Insights Associate, Data Analytics in Tempe, AZ. The role partners across the organization to scope, analyze, and monitor key financial and utilization metrics, driving data-driven decision making with stakeholders.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Pharmacy Program Management, this position blends analysis with storytelling for leadership audiences. The role requires 3+ years of analytics experience, SQL/R/Python, and healthcare domain knowledge, with a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical work experience using analytical tools and writing analytical reports.
• 2+ years demonstrated ability to work with large datasets and distill analyses into insights.
• Strong communication skills with leadership-facing analyses (Director+).
• 2+ years experience in SQL, or proficiency in R or Python with Pandas.
• 1+ years experience in Google Sheets or Excel (VLOOKUP, nested IF).
• 1+ years experience in healthcare, finance or the insurance industry.

Responsibilities

• Own insights generation and follow-up for a major business unit.
• Analyze data to help teams make data-driven decisions.
• Tell a story with data that non-technical colleagues can understand.
• Enhance dashboards and define requirements to evolve them.
• Create models/tools to identify and remove inefficiencies in healthcare.
• Collaborate across the organization and manage stakeholder relationships.
• Support other strategic projects as needed and ensure compliance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL

R or Python

Google Sheets/Excel

Data storytelling

Healthcare/insurance domain

Communication skills

Tools

Looker

Job description

Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Strategic Insights Associate, Data Analytics to join our Pharmacy Program Management.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the role:

The Strategic Insights Associate, Data Analytics partners closely across the organization to identify and manage inefficiencies proactively in the business. This position supports business units in scoping, analyzing and monitoring performance of key financial and utilization metrics in service of company goals. The Associate, Data Analytics independently drives the scoping & execution of analytical requests, including working with stakeholders to define key questions, scope methodologies and results. They may at times be called upon to speak to prepared analysis both internally and externally.

You will report into the Senior Director, Pharmacy Program Management.

Work Location:

This position is based in our Tempe, AZ office, requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in-office work per week. Thursdays are a required in-office day for team meetings and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid

Pay Transparency:

The base pay for this role is: $91,659.60 - $120,303.23 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program and annual performance bonuses.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for owning insights generation and follow-up for a major business unit, serving as the first point of contact for Sr. Managers and Associate Directors
• Analyze data to support business teams in making better informed, data-driven decisions
• Use data to tell a story that non-technical colleagues will be able to understand, including packaging and presenting findings in a clear, concise and compelling manner
• Recognize the need to enhance essential operational and analytical dashboards, and define the requirements to enhance them as our user's needs evolve
• Identify opportunities to create models and tools that produce relevant insights to identify healthcare inefficiencies and generate insights to remove inefficiencies
• Collaborate across the organization, including owning stakeholder relationships with managers & senior managers , to identify actions to achieve improvements and monitor initiative impact
• Support other strategic projects as assigned to meet business needs
• Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 3+ years of technical work experience using analytical tools and writing analytical reports
• 2+ years demonstrated ability to work with large datasets and distill analyses into relevant insights with a structured and systematic thought process
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, around business reporting impact and requirements, as demonstrated by 5+ examples / projects of presenting analysis to Leadership (Director+)
• 2+ years experience in SQL, with the ability to filter, aggregate, and build CTEs, or proficiency in R or Python, including experience with Pandas, for loops, and statistical tests
• 1+ years experience, including proficiency in Google Sheets or Excel skills, with ability to use VLookup, nested if statements and connected Sheets
• 1+ years experience in healthcare, finance or the insurance industry

Bonus points:

• 2+ years experience in preparing healthcare analytics and reporting
• 2+ years experience managing value-based contracts at a payer or a provider organization (ACO, CIN, MSO etc.)
• 2+ years experience developing dashboards and working with Looker, or other business intelligence/data visualization tools
• Exposure to healthcare contract negotiations, risk adjustment, ACA marketplace, quality of care, and/or population health experience

This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity.

At Oscar, being an Equal Opportunity Employer means more than upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. It means that we cultivate an environment where people can be their most authentic selves and find both belonging and support. We're on a mission to change health care -- an experience made whole by our unique backgrounds and perspectives.

Pay Transparency:

Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements.

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