Senior Associate, Healthcare Insights

Overview

The organization is seeking a Sr. Associate, Healthcare Insights to support the development and ongoing enhancement of health-system insights and intelligence capability.

This role involves building an analytical foundation through the interpretation, validation, and application of health-system financial, operating, market, and organizational data. The Sr. Associate will help develop benchmarks, comparative analyses, and analytical approaches used to evaluate health-system performance.

Responsibilities

• Independently analyze and synthesize health-system financial, operating, market, and organizational data to identify meaningful trends, relationships, and insights.
• Develop, test, and refine hypotheses related to health-system performance, market dynamics, peer comparisons, and industry trends.
• Lead defined analytical workstreams, including development and enhancement of benchmarks, comparison groups, performance measures, and other analytical assets.
• Validate data elements, metrics, calculations, benchmarks, and analytical outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, and relevance.
• Collaborate with healthcare subject-matter experts, technology partners, and Innovation and Insights leadership to develop analytical approaches and translate findings into business insights.
• Evaluate data quality and identify inconsistencies, gaps, anomalies, and opportunities to improve the accuracy and usability of data assets.
• Develop reports, presentations, and analytical summaries that communicate findings, implications, and recommendations.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance benchmarks, analytical approaches, and underlying data assets.
• Manage assigned project workstreams and deliverables while collaborating across a multidisciplinary team.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience in healthcare consulting, healthcare finance, financial planning, healthcare analytics, benchmarking, strategic planning, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of health-system financial and operating performance, including interpreting financial statements, operational metrics, and performance indicators.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, including interpreting complex data, identifying meaningful trends and relationships, developing hypotheses, and drawing data-driven conclusions.
• Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis to support business, operational, or financial decision-making.
• Ability to assess data quality, consistency, and reliability; identify issues, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Ability to translate analytical findings into clear observations, insights, and recommendations for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including managing multiple priorities and delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate with healthcare subject-matter experts, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and a desire to learn new healthcare data sources, methodologies, and analytical approaches.
• Ability to work independently while seeking guidance appropriately and contributing effectively within a collaborative team environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
• Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with the employer (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with reasonable accommodations.
• Work is generally done sitting, talking, hearing and typing.
• Visual acuity to use a keyboard, prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing, viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

Work Environment

• Travel Required: Occasional 0-10%.
• Remote role (Chicago preferred).
• Work is regularly performed in a home office setting and routinely uses standard office equipment.
• May require maintaining a home office and proximity to an airport for work-related travel.

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated hiring range (current): $105,000 to $140,000.
• This position is also incentive eligible.
• A comprehensive benefits plan is provided.

Equal Opportunity

The organization is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination based on protected status as defined by law.