Strategic Medical Cost Analytics Lead

Highmark Health; Lake Michigan Beach (MI); On-site; USD 79,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health seeks a senior healthcare cost analytics professional to turn large data into actionable insights on cost trends. You will develop program value, track outcomes, and partner with matrix teams to craft stories using SAS, SQL, R, and BI tools.

This role emphasizes data-driven storytelling, cross-functional collaboration, and influencing decisions. A strong background in medical economics or healthcare analytics is required, with 5 years in payer analytics and a Master’s preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5+ years in medical economics or healthcare analytics.
• Strong coding background and experience with dashboards using BI tools.
• Experience communicating outcomes to business partners and executives.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic insights into emerging medical cost trends with executive-ready presentations.
• Extract, summarize and analyze large datasets using SAS, SQL or similar tools.
• Coordinate savings projections and post-implementation savings measurements.
• Develop business cases and savings estimates to enable deeper projections.
• Present analytics and insights to key partners and stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical ability

Data storytelling

Communication skills

Healthcare analytics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Health, Economics, Mathematics/Actuarial Sciences or related

Master's Degree in Business, Health, Economics, Mathematics/Actuarial Sciences or related

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Highmark Health seeks a senior healthcare cost analytics professional to turn large data into actionable insights on cost trends. You will develop program value, track outcomes, and partner with matrix teams to craft stories using SAS, SQL, R, and BI tools.

This role emphasizes data-driven storytelling, cross-functional collaboration, and influencing decisions. A strong background in medical economics or healthcare analytics is required, with 5 years in payer analytics and a Master’s preferred.