Director Analytics

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions — from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.
 

The Director of Analytics leverages Surescripts’ rich data to generate actionable insights, support product development, and engage externally with clients and partners across the healthcare ecosystem. The Director of Analytics leads a high-performing team responsible for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. This position serves as a client-facing 'player-coach,' combining expert leadership and communication skills with direct contribution to analytics projects.

• Design and lead analytics initiatives that advance product development and sales enablement for all Surescripts solutions, partnering with product and sales teams to craft compelling data-driven narratives, demonstrate value to prospective clients, and tailor insights to diverse stakeholder needs.

• Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing analytics team, fostering collaboration, professional growth, and a culture of excellence and continuous learning.

• Develop and deliver advanced analytics solutions, including descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models leveraging large-scale healthcare data to generate high-impact insights

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design, implement, and evaluate analytics that inform, enhance, and differentiate Surescripts’ offerings.

• Strengthen Surescripts’ Analytics Engineering capabilities by partnering with data science, data engineering and BI teams to create scalable, well‑modeled, transformation‑ready data assets (e.g., curated marts, semantic layers, and reusable pipelines) that accelerate analysis and improve data accessibility across the organization.

• Represent Surescripts’ analytics capabilities in client-facing settings, supporting sales enablement, explaining methodologies and findings, and communicating insights to customers and external partners with clarity and credibility.

• Uphold rigorous and analytic standards, ensuring transparency, reproducibility, integrity, and high trust of insights delivered both internally and externally.

Analytics Focus Areas

• Analyze healthcare industry trends and generate actionable insights with emphasis on pharmacy operations, pharmacy benefit management, medication utilization patterns, and prior authorization workflows- supporting improved clinical, operational, and economic outcomes across the healthcare ecosystem.

• Examine healthcare provider and patient interactions to identify opportunities to enhance care quality, streamline workflows, and improve engagement across points of care.

• Evaluate the economic impact of medication decisions, including adherence utilization patterns, and therapy affordability to guide stakeholders in optimizing quality and access.

• Deliver targeted insights to key stakeholders, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, health plans, health systems, PBMs, EHRs, and other industry partners, tailoring analyses to their unique market dynamics, strategic priorities, and decisions.

Basic Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of related, progressive experience in advanced analytics roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.

• 5+ years of experience in healthcare analytics, ideally within life sciences, health plans, or PBMs.

• Proficiency in statistical analysis, machine learning, and data visualization tools (e.g., Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Looker).

• Experience with large-scale healthcare data sets is essential. 

• Exceptional ability to translate complex analytics into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrated success in presenting to external clients and stakeholders.

• Skilled in prioritizing, resource deployment, and managing multiple projects in a dynamic environment, meeting deadlines, and delivering high-quality results.

• Deep understanding of healthcare market dynamics, medication workflows, and the needs of diverse stakeholders across the healthcare continuum.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (PhD) in a relevant field

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilizing our offices as collaboration centers. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.
 

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surecripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or provide sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programs or work-study programs through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F-1/CPT or F-1/STEM.

Why Wait? Apply Now 

 
We’re a midsize company. This means you’re not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way. We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.
 

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.
 

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.