Healthcare Analytics Lead (Cmh Health)

Milliman is seeking a technically savvy, analytically strongHealthcare Analytics Lead to manage analytics and technology projects as well as coach and mentor junior analytical staff. The ideal candidate is someone seeking to join a challenging, yet rewarding environment focused on delivering world-class analytics across a variety of healthcare-related domains to a variety of healthcare entities.

Who We Are 

Independent for over 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage analytics and technology consulting projects, engagements, and research efforts
• Communicate and coordinate amongst Milliman Consultants, project staff, and our clients to meet milestones and timelines
• Contribute to technical deliverables using analytics software (for example, SAS, SQL, Python, DataBricks, Excel, etc.)
• Delegate to, coach, and mentor junior analytical staff, including analysts and actuaries
• Take ownership of project deadlines and deliverables
• Design and develop a modeling approach to actuarial problems by utilizing large health claim datasets
• Oversee and/or perform Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tasks on healthcare data, including intake, manipulation, and quality assessment of enrollment, medical claims, and pharmacy claims
• Develop analytical and project roadmaps, planning out the “data to deliverable” runway and identifying potential roadblocks ahead of time
• Participate in client meetings, including occasional travel to client sites
• Identify and meet confidentiality, data security, and incident response obligations based on laws, regulations, policies, grants, contracts, binding commitment (e.g.- data use, participant consent, and confidentiality agreements), Institutional Review Board, and other organization and external requirements relating to data used

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required (Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Math, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, or related degree is preferred)
• 5+ years of health data analytics or similar experience
• Advanced proficiency using SAS, Python, R, or other programming languages
• Advanced proficiency using Excel
• Basic proficiency using Tableau or PowerBI
• Able to interpret, scrub, process, explain, and teach others healthcare claims data

Competencies and Behaviors that Support Success in this Role 

• Proficiency in database architecture, healthcare and pharmacy claims data, and CMS data sets
• Knowledge and experience in the CMS VRDC environment
• Payer healthcare claim data experience, eligibility data and healthcare industry knowledge
• Skilled in the use of relational databases and familiar with database extract and analyzing tools for utilizing multiple large data sets
• Sharp critical thinking skills, sound judgment and decision-making ability, and both the ability and willingness to clearly articulate your ideas
• Analytical thinker, able to assess problems logically
• Fast learner
• Strong communication skills and experience working with a team
• An inherent sense of the value of collaboration
• The ability to work both collaboratively and independently
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment where the client is always first
• Experience delegating tasks to junior staff
• Experience mentoring junior staff

 The Team

The Healthcare Analytics Lead will join a team that thrives on leveraging data, analytics, and technology to deliver meaningful business value.  This is a team with technical aptitude and analytical prowess that enjoys building efficient and scalable products and processes.  Ultimately, we are passionate about effecting change in healthcare.  We also believe that collaboration and communication are cornerstones of success. 

The Healthcare Analytics Lead will also join a mix of Healthcare Analysts, Leads, Consultants, and Principals.  In addition, as part of the broader Milliman landscape, they will work alongside Healthcare Actuaries, Pharmacists, Clinicians, and Physicians.  We aim to provide everyone a supportive environment, where we foster learning and growth through rewarding challenges.

Salary: The salary range is $66,000 to $157,000, depending on a combination of factors, including but not limited to education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, location, etc. 

If overall experience is less than 5 years the range would be $66,000 to $129,000; for experience of greater than 5 years, the range would be $78,000 to $157,000.

Location: It is preferred that candidates work on-site at our Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, or Hartford, CT office. Remote candidates will be considered. 

 Benefits

At Milliman, we focus on creating an environment that recognizes – and meets – the personal and professional needs of the individual and their family. We offer competitive benefits which include the following based on plan eligibility:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, including domestic partners
• A 401(k) plan with matching program, and profit sharing contribution
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• A discretionary bonus program
• Paid Time Off (PTO) starts accruing on the first day of work and can be used for any reason; full-time employees will accrue 15 days of PTO per year, and employees working less than a full-time schedule will accrue PTO at a prorated amount based on hours worked
• Family building benefits, including adoption and fertility assistance and paid parental leave up to 12 weeks for employees who have worked for Milliman for at least 12 months and have worked at least 1,250 hours in the preceding 12-month period
• A minimum of 8 paid holidays
• Milliman covers 100% of the premiums for life insurance, AD&D, and both short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts allow employees to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for dependent care, transportation, and applicable medical needs

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)