Senior Data Science Advisor - Clinical Pharmacy Analytics - Hybrid

OVERVIEW: A career within Forsyth Health's Data & Analytics team will provide you with the opportunity to help Pharma/Life Science organizations uncover patient and market insights. At Forsyth Health, we focus on a collection of data management, business intelligence and advanced analytics capabilities to support various functions within these organizations to meet their business needs around market access and patient support programs. How you'll make a difference: The Sr. Data Scientist role is a key role to the enterprise and will be supporting a highly complex and growing area within the health care data and analytics services space. As a strong individual contributor, the role will lead client engagements to define, develop and communicate insights critical to Commercial, Market Access, HEOR and Evidence Generation functions at Pharma/Life Science. Responsibilities include leading Outcomes Research studies, Advanced Analytics, ML model development and general analytic support for all stakeholders. This role will work closely with the internal Sales and Technology teams. This person will need to be able to understand the needs within the Commercial Pharma Analytics space and translate those into actionable insights. Role Summary: The Data Science Advisor- Pharmacy Analytics position is an opportunity for an analytics professional to provide leadership on complex analytics projects and initiatives. This role will work with an innovative team on setting and executing the vision for how advanced embedded analytics can lead Cigna to achieving our growth goals. This role will work collaboratively with our business stakeholders to provide partnership in analytics, developing analytics solutions, leveraging Data Science and technologic capabilities and embedding analytics driven processes.
The job responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Lead analyses related to Healthcare Resource Utilization, Total Healthcare Cost and Clinical Outcomes with a focus on Specialty Medications/Rare diseases, Channel Management, Utilization Management, and specific Therapeutic area research (root cause analyses, Health Outcome Studies, Opportunity analysis including descriptive and multivariate statistics to identify patterns in the data.)
• Develop new reports, models and analytic solutions with innovative ways to present data internally and externally in order to support Forsyth Health's Sales & Business stakeholders. This requires combining business knowledge and data acumen along with technical (SAS, SQL) skills to efficiently complete these ad-hoc requests. Query data warehouse(s) using variety of tools available.Extract data and manipulate into reports for client both internal and external.Maintain turn-around times per agreements.
• Consultation withData & Analytics matrix partners to develop best practices and help understand complex issues and requests. Cross-Functional collaboration as needed to create alignment with stakeholders.
• Project management and prioritization - Advisor role willsupportmultiple projects and will need to be able to work with Forysth Health Sales' and Analytics team to manage multiple initiatives at the same time and negotiate timelines/priority with stakeholders.
• Manage the analytic solution development efforts in the role of a Product Owner, requiring effective project management, technical and functional documentation, communication and stakeholder alignment.
• Explore and visualize the data using advanced tools such as including Tableau, PowerBI, Thoughtspot and/or Looker. (Largely Tool agnostic environment)
• Extraction and analysis of large healthcare claims data using state of the art big-data infrastructure leveraging cloud and on premise tools i.e. SAS, Analytic platform (Python), R, Teradata, Hadoop, etc.

Qualifications:
• BS/MS/PhD in Econometrics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Health Outcomes, Epidemiology, Statistics, or in any technical field that provides a solid basis for analytics highly desired.
• Minimum 6 years of industry experience in solving Health Plan, PBM business or Commercial Pharma Analytic problems through the application of analytic approaches.
• Prior experience in Healthcare analytics, Specialty Medication or Specialty Condition analytics or Health Outcomes required
• A demonstrated ability to understand and effectively communicate (both verbally and written) analytic and clinical data to a varied audience.
• Deep healthcare data (e.g., PBM experience, Provider Networks, Billing, Medical and Pharmacy claims), statistical analysis experience, and an understanding of all the associated clinical, utilization and financial levers.
• Experience with statistical software/programming languages such as SQL programming, SAS, R, Python and other tools preferred (Python knowledge not requisite but preferred).
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Thoughtspot or PowerBI.
• A data-driven personality w/ Intellectual curiosity and internal motivation.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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