The business problem that VSP Vision is looking to solve is to leverage data in support of business monitoring and decision management by leading collaborations with business teams to determine needs and opportunities for data-driven insights.
Requirements
- Proficient in building complex data queries using SQL in order to join, filter, cleanse and aggregate data
- Proficient in designing data workflows and business-oriented data models against relational database structures
- Proficient in visualization and dashboard design techniques to create interfaces that monitor business performance against KPIs and highlight trends/patterns
- Proficient in using data exploration and analysis platforms such as PowerBI, Cognos Analytics, Tableau, SAS or similar
- Experience applying statistical modeling to evaluate complex business problems and develop forecasting and what-if scenarios
- Familiarity with Data Science techniques and experience in the use of notebooks (i.e. Jupyter) with programming languages like Python and R
- Experience with Medicare/Medicaid Reporting
Responsibilities
- Lead engagements with business leaders and staff to clarify needs and define business requirements for strategic data use
- Perform data exploration, analysis and statistical inference to identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets and detect influences, opportunities and risks
- Develop forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios and recommendations in consultation with leaders to support strategic/tactical planning and operational decision-making
- Lead the creation of dashboards, visualizations and reports to support business performance monitoring, automating where possible, to support stakeholders’ ability to be data driven
- Produce business-specific workflows and data models for analysis using enterprise analytics and data management tools, including the integration of external data sets that are approved for use
- Serve iterative business needs by developing prototype models that join large volumes of data across multiple data domains to deliver views for use by other analysts
- Identify business opportunities for machine learning and collaborates with Data Scientists to deliver value for the business unit
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related functional area; or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of demonstrated data analytics experience including querying and analyzing operational and/or financial data, generating insights and communicating those effectively with colleagues and leaders
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills
- Capable of mentoring others to elevate the collective skills of the team
- Must adhere to all enterprise policies and guidelines regarding data security and privacy, data management, data quality and data governance
