Data Analyst - Health, Principal

Your Role

The Finance, Cost of Health Care (CoHC) team is responsible for financial oversight, analytics and strategic planning to manage and reduce healthcare costs across all lines of business for Blue Shield of California. The Data Analyst - Behavioral Health, Principal will report to the Medical Informatics Analyst - Sr Principal. In this role you will be collaborating with leadership in developing behavioral health finance analytics including measurement of the internal cost of healthcare, and reporting and analytics supporting the various stakeholders in the behavioral health (BH) insourcing project. A key responsibility will be to work with Line of Business Leadership on their cost of health care metrics and analytics.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires an MPH, MBA, MS, MA in science, social science, public health, health services research or business, or BA/BS with demonstrated equivalent work experience
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience
• Requires at least 5 years of experience in Health Care (managed care, academic, or gov't payer)
• Requires advanced SQL and Excel for data manipulation and analysis
• Requires expertise in Data Modeling to support predictive and prescriptive analytics
• Requires experience with data visualization tools for creating insightful dashboards
• Requires strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to interpret complex datasets and identify actionable insights
• Requires the ability to communicate complex findings clearly, using compelling narratives and visual representations to engage technical and non-technical audiences
• Requires strong customer service orientation and proven ability to collaborate with individuals at all organizational levels