Job Description: This role is an opportunity to build a Data & Analytics team supporting Cigna's Medicaid business from the ground up. The Medicaid business needs the right leader to build a mature data platform and analytics capability to enable growth. The Medicaid Data & Analytics Lead will translate the Medicaid business’s strategic objectives into a roadmap of tools and capabilities that will use data to help make better business decisions and deliver more personalized business insights. The candidate will assemble a team of data experts and business analytics professionals to deliver a broad portfolio of projects, spanning foundational data capabilities, reporting, analytical tools, population health, and customer insights. They will engage in a collaborative, cross-functional group spanning senior leadership and a variety of functional areas (e.g. operations, clinical management, finance, medical economics, and network). The right leader will possess a strong degree of creativity, innovation, business and financial acumen, leadership ability, and a core data/analytics skillset. They will also demonstrate a talent for translating between technical and non-technical audiences, as well as a desire to champion a data-driven culture with our business partners. Job Responsibilities: Document and work to automate existing manual data and reporting processes Understand the current state of Medicaid data and reporting and the existing gaps for all stakeholders Identify and recommend operational, clinical, and network trends and opportunities Prepare population health analytics by cohorts or acuity levels Build automated reporting on financial performance, medical cost trend, clinical management, and other areas Create a detailed roadmap of new capabilities and timing needed to develop a mature Medicaid analytics function Provide insights and commentary on drivers of results Create a project plan to document the proposed approach to closing gaps and meeting stakeholder needs Align with state value-based programs and reporting Lead the development of a management scorecard and a suite of reports to allow business leaders to assess and diagnose key trends Develop data views, including internal and external sources, to support automated reporting and more sophisticated analytics Prioritize and execute on the creation of new analytical tools to provide deeper, more granular insights on customer behavior, provider performance, clinical program outcomes, and other business drivers. Build relationships with Medicaid senior leadership and key stakeholders Identify of data anomalies in network and clinical trends for action Develop a strong perspective on the Medicaid business’s strategic goals Support Medicaid business with proactive business analytics that align with state contracts Create a strong data foundation for analytics, in partnership with IT organization Qualification & Experience: 7+ years of work experience, including experience with health care data and statistical analysis Ability to translate business needs into practical applications and solutions Strong business and financial acumen, including knowledge of health insurance financial drivers Strong customer focus, communication, and management of business partner expectations Ability to think creatively and put structure around complex problems Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (statistics, mathematics, computer science, finance, actuarial science, data science, business analytics, or equivalent training) Prior managerial experience strongly preferred Prior Medicaid business expertise strongly preferred, particularly with prior work in clinical, network, and/or operations functions Location is flexible, including WAH option Ability to clearly present findings to a diverse group of teams with varying levels of technical expertise Strong expertise working with complex databases, including advanced SQL skills Job Details: Company: Cigna Vacancy Type: Full Time Job Location: Ft. Worth, TX, US Application Deadline: N/A Apply Here vacancyoptions.com