Decision Analytics Consultant - Health Plan

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ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide.

ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.

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ZS's Insights & Analytics group partners with clients to design and deliver solutions to help them tackle a broad range of business challenges. Our teams work on multiple projects simultaneously, leveraging advanced data analytics and problem-solving techniques. Our recommendations and solutions are based on rigorous research and analysis underpinned by deep expertise and thought leadership.

ZS’s Health Plan and Provider (HPP) team is a growth venture, focused on a strategic set of offerings and client segments that can unlock the ZS mission/vision – helping improve life and how we live it. Within ZS, HPP operates like a mission-oriented start-up backed by a large global firm. HPP’s goal is to build the ecosystem of payer/provider clients that have a similar mindset to long term partnership, innovation in the healthcare industry, and unlocking the synergies across various sectors within healthcare and beyond.

The team is growing quickly and looking for passionate team members who care first and foremost about impact and core values – we pride ourselves on being true to spirit of client value creation, true culture of collaboration, and human-centric service. Through our vision, strategy, and investments, we seek to disrupt the traditional healthcare consulting market and elevate our society to new levels of functioning. This venture is not for the feint of heart – we work hard, play hard, and bring our complete selves to work.

The Decision Analytics Consultant - Health Plansin Insights & Analytics will...

What You’ll Do:

  • Identify the problem statement and break down into smaller components (e.g., issue / logic tree)
  • Own multiple project workstreams (data / content synthesis, insights / findings) and identifies connections and inter-dependencies between them
  • Own / develop project deliverables with clear storyline and integrated framework with not only insights and findings, but also key strategic implications and recommendations
  • Build relationships with day-to-day client contacts
  • Ability to work in teams - communicate, participate, collaborate, motivate, and delegate
  • Leverage quantitative skills to derive answers to Health Plan clients' ongoing business analytics and reporting questions.
  • Work collaboratively with Health Plan clients to ascertain the client’s specific business information needs.
  • Execute a specific plan for analyzing the data necessary to secure solutions to clients’ particular business information need(s).
  • Discuss and determine with clients which specific data may be best utilized in order to perform the necessary analysis.
  • Evaluate, assess and analyze the data necessary to provide solutions to the client’s particular business information needs.
  • Communicate the data results to the client, with an emphasis on answering the business question as opposed to the analytical and reporting processes used.
  • Gain immediate familiarity with client’s internal processes.
  • Develop expertise within a client analytics area.
What You’ll Bring:
  • MBA with a bachelor's (and often graduate) degree in a quantitative, analytical discipline, such as Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Management Science, Data Science, Statistics, Econometrics, or Engineering. Alternately, candidates may possess a PhD in marketing, economics, decision sciences or related field with a business application. In lieu of an MBA or PhD, 5-8 years of relevant work experience may substitute.
  • Up to 3 years of post-MBA Health Plan experience, and 3-5 years of pre-MBA relevant work experience, with evidence of strong analytic work (including use of advanced modeling techniques and tools such as R, Python, SAS or Tableau
  • Experience with healthcare business processes/analytics strongly pre
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