Senior Analyst, Insights - Cohere Health

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using leading edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health insurance plans covering over 15 million people, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled.  That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work, Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup, TripleTree iAward, multiple KLAS Research Points of Light, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcares Fierce 15 and CB Insights Digital Health 150 lists.

Opportunity Overview:

This is an excellent opportunity for an outstanding data analyst to join a Series B digital health company. You will work closely with clinicians, program implementation and operation experts, informaticists, data scientists, and actuaries to support data-driven clinical program and pilot design, monitor, report and evaluation. These clinical programs and pilots aim to improve a) payor/provider/patient collaboration through utilization management and care management process, b) quality of care and patient outcomes, and c) healthcare utilization and spending efficiency. The work will be fast-paced and project-based, with evolving needs requiring adaptability, curiosity, and grace under pressure.  

 Last but not least: People who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

 What you’ll do:

• Cultivate a deep understanding of Cohere’s clinical content, UM products and clinical programs and use analytics to produce insights to drive program effectiveness and value for internal business partners and clients

• Work with multiple types of healthcare data to build and maintain analytical and reporting solutions to support strategy and program decision making  

• Identify optimization opportunities based on analyses to enhance value for clients

• Track cost, utilization and industry trends to inform stakeholders of product performance and provide insights around opportunities to optimize clinical value for patients, providers and payers.

Your background & requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a healthcare or quantitative discipline such as Epidemiology, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Health Informatics, Public Health or related field required, Master’s degree preferred

• Work Experience: 3-5 years experience working in an analyst role 

• Collaboration: Experience interfacing with internal and external business stakeholders on the development and read out of client and program specific KPIs

• Data Analysis and Interpretation: Ability to use statistical analysis tools (such as SQL, R, Python or SAS) to extract insights from complex healthcare data sets, interpret trends, and derive actionable recommendations - experience with Athena preferred

• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills required

• Project Execution: Experience owning complex projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, setting goals, and meeting deadlines for multiple ongoing projects

• Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Ability to identify issues within healthcare data, devise solutions, and think critically to develop scalable solutions to problems

• Data Visualization: experience developing dashboards and self service business intelligence tools such as Tableau or PowerBI 

• Healthcare Knowledge: Understanding of healthcare systems, medical terminologies, clinical workflows, and experience with large data sets including medical claims, pharmacy, and eligibility data

• Passionate about improving the U.S. healthcare system and helping ensure every patient receives the best care possible

• Experience with clinical and utilization management programs for speciality care (e.g., musculoskeletal, cardiology, imaging, oncology, pharmacy) preferred.