Strategic Medical Cost Analytics Lead - Hybrid/Remote

Highmark Health; Helena (MT); Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Inc. is seeking a Finance/Healthcare Analytics professional to lead financial reporting for the strategic cost of care savings program.

The role involves gathering data, performing quality checks, and delivering executive-level insights and dashboards on program impact for the health plan. The ideal candidate provides strong technical and analytical skills with excellent communication, and has experience building dashboards in SAS/SQL/R/Tableau/Power BI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, health, economics, mathematics/actuarial sciences or related area.
• 5 years of Medical Economics, Healthcare Analytics, Informatics and/or Actuarial Services in health care payer sector.
• Preferred: strong coding background (R, R Shiny, Python, SQL) and dashboard experience (Tableau/Power BI/R Shiny).

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic insights into medical cost trends with executive-ready presentations.
• Extract, summarize and analyze large datasets via SAS, SQL or similar tools.
• Coordinate savings opportunities, post-implementation measurements and improved business cases.
• Develop medical cost analytics and present cost drivers to partners.
• Communicate analytics clearly in executive-style presentations.
• Collaborate with other departments to build the analytical story.

Skills

Analytical ability

Data skills

Communication with partners

Healthcare industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business/Health/Economics/Math

Master's Degree preferred

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Highmark Inc. is seeking a Finance/Healthcare Analytics professional to lead financial reporting for the strategic cost of care savings program.

The role involves gathering data, performing quality checks, and delivering executive-level insights and dashboards on program impact for the health plan. The ideal candidate provides strong technical and analytical skills with excellent communication, and has experience building dashboards in SAS/SQL/R/Tableau/Power BI.