The Senior Healthcare Analyst will play a key role in driving Aledade's financial and strategic initiatives. By conducting in-depth analytics and research, the analyst will support the company's forecasting and risk management processes. Working closely with actuaries, this role will leverage a variety of healthcare data-such as claims, premiums, membership, and risk scores-drawn from sources like health plans, public datasets, and CMS.

The analyst will become a subject matter expert in the financial structure and methodologies behind value-based contracting and will use insights to inform key business strategies. Collaboration across teams will be essential, as the analyst contributes to data-driven decision-making that shapes Aledade's approach to healthcare innovation and performance.

We are flexible with respect to geographic location, and the ideal candidate will be comfortable working remotely/work from home within the US or be based from our Bethesda, MD office.

Primary Duties:

Understand the problem space:

• Work with teams across Aledade to understand and clarify questions and issues for data analysis.

Design and execute analysis:

• Under the direction of actuaries, design the analysis to answer key business questions.
• Develop program code to integrate, evaluate, and analyze diverse data sources.
• Perform data analysis and statistical modeling under the direction of actuaries to generate actionable insights and solutions.

Assist in translating and communicating analysis results:

• Work across teams at Aledade to synthesize results, identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action.  
• Work closely with the Performance Team and Finance Team to generate  and bring analytic results to leadership.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 4-6 years of relevant experience
• Experience with SQL for data manipulation and R, Python, or Stata for statistical programming
• Experience with health care data sources such as medical or pharmacy claims, membership, and risk scores 

Preferred KSA's:

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics or computer science
• Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, grounded in econometrics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
• Demonstrated ability to conduct nuanced analyses to produce accurate and unbiased results and tell the story of those results in data visualizations, presentations, and reports.
• Attention to detail, quality assurance, documentation, and building repeatable processes
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
• Values people with differing backgrounds and perspectives; supports effective interpersonal and intercultural engagement
• Well-versed in Equity and Inclusion language, concepts, and principles (i.e. health disparities, social drivers of health, implicit bias) and able to communicate and explain them to larger audiences
• Committed to serving teammates and patients with empathy and respect
• Ability to manage research projects through the entire life cycle, from design through implementation, documentation, and presentation of findings
• Thinks beyond their immediate team and contributes to making Aledade holistically better (active engagement in employee resource groups, DE&I initiatives, book/journal clubs, facilitating training, leading roundtables, etc.)
• Knowledge of standard methods for measuring health care utilization, spending, quality, and related outcomes