[Hiring] Risk Adjustment Analytics Manager @Datavant

Role Description

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

The open manager role is on a team that directly influences internal risk adjustment coding operations and produces client-facing analytics. Our focus is on our retrospective risk adjustment coding product and the impact it has to our clients. If you are motivated by doing rigorous analytical and operations-focused work that has real downstream impacts to the results of our business, then this role is for you.

The incoming Risk Adjustment Analytics Manager will be leading a group of analysts and expected to act as a player-coach in many situations. We are looking for a hands-on manager who has experience and interest in providing guidance and mentorship to both junior and senior analysts while also getting their hands dirty in the data and providing content and subject matter expertise.

The ideal manager will be experienced working with a team spanning multiple time zones and flexible schedules and resilient and organized enough to navigate a fast-paced environment with seasonal periods of increased work load tied to risk adjustment program cycles and client deliverable windows.

The manager will collaborate with other managers and the department director to set strategy and mobilize the team to be as performant as possible. Keys to success will include:

• A curiosity in creating efficient analytic solutions that utilize a wide array of technology and data resources.
• Proper planning and management of workloads.
• Consistent and proactive communication both upwards, downwards, and laterally to surface ideas and identify risks and blockers before they become problems.
• Risk adjustment experience and subject matter expertise that allows you to hit the ground running and operate proactively vs reactively to the business needs.

The primary functions of the Business Analytics team are to create analytic solutions that support internal operations, ensuring that the work we do for our clients is optimized and successful, and then to tell the story of the results by creating external-facing content through partnership with our Customer Success team.

Qualifications

• Critical thinking skills and a curiosity and desire to identify and solve complex business problems that span a large array of topics related to our core business functions.
• Successful track record leading and managing in a remote environment with a demonstrated ability to hold direct reports accountable for responsiveness, quality, and deadlines (2+ years).
• 3+ years of experience working with Medicare, ACA, and/or Medicaid risk adjustment models.
• 5+ years of data analytics and technical experience.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple communication channels to track projects and communicate results, escalate problems, etc (slack, email, teleconferencing).
• A strong attention to detail and meticulous diligence in checking work product before delivering to stakeholders.
• Strong data analytics technical skills to ensure you are able to coach and correct your direct reports and complete work assignments on your own (strong with SQL, preferably in a cloud environment such as Snowflake or Databricks, visualization/BI tools such as Sigma, Looker or Tableau, and strong spreadsheet skills for ad-hoc analytics work and summarization).
• A degree or equivalent years of work experience in a technical capacity such as Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Actuarial Science, Economics, Statistics or Business with a technical focus.

Requirements

• Experienced and highly skilled in Sigma (preferred - Looker/Tableau alternatively).
• Experienced and highly skilled with cloud database environments and modern tools (Snowflake and dbt preferred).
• Proficient with using SQL and Python for data analytics.
• Experience using Jira for workflow and project management.
• Experience using both Microsoft and Google office suite of products.
• Background and experience working in healthcare actuarial or medical economics departments with a focus on risk adjustment valuation and modeling.
• Experience creating and communicating executive-level content.
• Experience managing external customers and managing expectations and deadlines.

Benefits

• The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is: $136,000 — $170,000 USD.
• We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive.
• We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.