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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.

Job Summary

The Senior Analytics Analyst - Healthcare Data independently leads analytics workstreams that produce actionable insights, enable product decisions, and strengthen commercial narratives across Surescripts solutions. This role owns analysis from problem framing through delivery, applying strong statistical and analytical judgment to large-scale healthcare transaction data. The Senior Analytics Analyst serves as a reliable cross-functional partner, elevates analytic rigor, and mentors junior analysts while remaining hands-on.

In addition to supporting product and business decision-making, this role contributes to customer-facing analytics initiatives by developing insights, reporting, and analytical narratives that help internal stakeholders communicate the value of Surescripts solutions.

The Senior Analytics Analyst partners with Product, Commercial, and Analytics leaders to translate complex healthcare data into scalable insights that support customer engagements, sales enablement activities, recurring business reviews, and self-service analytics adoption.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end analytics deliverables by scoping problems, defining success metrics, developing analytic approaches, executing analyses and models, and presenting findings and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

• Develop and deliver complex descriptive and diagnostic analyses while contributing to predictive and prescriptive analytics efforts using appropriate methods, validation techniques, and sound analytical judgment.

• Partner closely with Product, Commercial, Engineering, and Analytics teams to translate business, customer, and market needs into measurable questions, scalable analytic solutions, and actionable insights.

• Produce executive-ready visualizations, reports, and data-driven narratives that communicate the business impact, value, and implications of Surescripts solutions for internal and external audiences.

• Establish and maintain reusable analytic assets, standardized methodologies, datasets, reporting solutions, and documentation that improve scalability, consistency, and self-service analytics adoption.

• Raise the team's quality bar through code reviews, quality assurance processes, methodology transparency, and continuous improvement of analytic practices.

• Mentor colleagues through coaching, feedback, and guidance on analytic techniques, stakeholder communication, and effective insight delivery.

• Support customer-facing initiatives, business reviews, and sales enablement efforts by presenting analytical findings, explaining methodologies and trends, and translating complex healthcare data into clear, actionable recommendations.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Economics, or related field required.

• 5+ years of experience in analytics roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex, multi-stakeholder analyses; healthcare analytics experience strongly preferred.

• Advanced SQL proficiency and strong Python or R capabilities for data analysis and modeling.

• Strong visualization, storytelling, and presentation skills using Tableau, Looker, or similar tools, including experience translating complex analytical findings into executive-ready insights for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proven ability to work with large datasets while applying sound validation, quality assurance, and reproducibility practices.

• Experience supporting business, product, commercial, customer-facing, consulting, customer success, or healthcare solutions analytics initiatives and communicating data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to create executive-ready presentations, reports, and supporting materials that communicate business value through data.

• Strong project management and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple analytics initiatives and deliver high-quality results in a dynamic environment.

• Experience working with healthcare transaction data, pharmacy data, claims data, patient journey analytics, or other large-scale healthcare datasets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field preferred.

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.

Physical and Mental Requirements

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.