Company Description

Accolade is a personalized health and benefits solution that dramatically improves the experience, outcomes and cost of healthcare for employers, health plans and their members. With a unique blend of compassionate advisors, clinical experts and intelligent technologies, we engage individuals and families in their health, establish trust, and influence their decisions at every stage of care. Accolade connects the widest array of personal health data and programs to present a single point of contact to the most effective health and benefits resources, while coordinating with providers at every step. Accolade consistently achieves 70 and higher Net Promoter Scores, 98% consumer satisfaction ratings, and up to 15% employer cost savings. Accolade has been recognized as one of the nation’s 25 most promising companies by Forbes, a fastest-growing private healthcare company by Inc. 5000, and is consistently rated a Top Workplace across the country. For more information, visit accolade.com.

What is important to us

Creating an enduring company that is hyper-focused on our culture and making a meaningful impact in the lives of our employees, members and customers. The secret to our success is:

We find joy and purpose in serving others

Making a difference in our members’ and customers’ lives is what we do. Even when it’s hard, we do the right thing for the right reasons.

We are strong individually and together, we’re powerful

Trusting in our colleagues and embracing their different backgrounds and experiences enable us to solve tough problems in creative ways, having fun along the way.

We roll up our sleeves and get stuff done

Results motivate us. And we aren't afraid of the hard work or tough decisions needed to get us there.

We’re boldly and relentlessly reinventing healthcare

We're curious and act big -- not afraid to knock down barriers or take calculated risks to change the world, one person at a time. 

Job Description

U.S. Work Authorization Required (Visa Sponsorship unavailable for this role) 

The Healthcare Data Analyst is responsible for supporting projects related to Clinical Strategy and Health Outcomes. The Data Analyst will support execution and analysis of internal projects designed to drive Accolade’s clinical model and position in the marketplace.

A day in the life…

•  Supports the development of statistical aspects of collaborative clinical, epidemiological and health outcomes research.
• Performs statistical data analysis to understand the impact of multiple conditions on health outcomes; develops long-term plans to address issues uncovered by the data.
• Executes projects or components of large projects from start to finish including data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving and communication of insights and recommendations.
• Collaborates with Accolade’s business intellence/reporting, data science and actuary teams on the development and implementation of analytic strategies to support Accolade’s personalized population health initiatives.
• ·Analyzes data to identify opportunities for clinical performance improvement and new solution development to impact populations served by Accolade.
• Partners with the data science team on leveraging big data to explore areas of health care analytics and technologies
• Leverages data insights to optimize the successful personalized population health management of Accolade’s current customer needs, while predicting needs for the future.
•  Effectively communicates findings and proposed recommendations from these analyses to relevant Sr/Executive Leadership.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s in Biostatistics, Public Health, Epidemiology or related field is required; Master’s degree is preferred
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in a healthcare analytics role preferred; experience in programming/analysis of large healthcare datasets. Previous experience with health care data sources such as claims, digital health solutions, electronic health records, clinical and patient reported data
• Proficiency with data access, manipulation and retrieving data from large databases with SQL & AWS
• Demonstrated experience using SAS/JMP/R, or other similar statistical analysis tools
•  Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with attention to detail, data quality and scientific rigor
•  Excellent written and oral communication skills. Must have ability to translate user needs into viable support programs and services
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams
•  Experience developing innovative analytic approaches leveraging internal and external data sources
• Ability to quickly develop knowledge and understanding of new domains and underlying data sources
• Demonstrated understanding of statistical concepts to support sound analytic results based on available data sources, business partner needs, and required timelines
•  Solution agent with strong planning, problem solving, collaboration and troubleshooting skills
•  Demonstrated experience working in a matrixed organization and leading cross-functional teams
•  Agile learner and the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities and multi-task
• Data-driven and fact-based: focused on getting to the best answer for our clients and our shareholders
•  Detail-oriented, analytical, inquisitive, problem-solving in nature

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.