Director, Strategic Analytics

Key Responsibilities

The Director, Strategic Analytics is responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining advanced, self-service analytic products in support of all Strategy and Growth functions and supporting enterprise-level priority areas. He/she will lead a team of individuals with skillsets including business intelligence development and advanced analytics, extract / transform / load work, and database administration.

The role entails leveraging a strategic and analytical background to advance a product roadmap that is ahead of organizational needs, while meeting the current analytic and reporting demands of the team. Analytic product inputs range from market-based datasets – including demographics, service line utilization, market share, referral patterns, etc. – through all key internal datasets – including growth, finance, access, quality, service, etc.

This role ensures an efficient portfolio of solutions that make use of these broad datasets for needs ranging from opportunity identification through planning, metric / target development, and benefits realization, and will include support for major initiatives and transformational projects for the broader enterprise.

The role provides leadership and expertise as needed across internal analytic functions, providing shared services support for strategic initiative execution and benefits realization through aligned analytic and measurement processes. As a center for expertise, the Director maintains close partnership with other internal data and analytics functions, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards within Strategy & Growth products, and helping advance those standards for the broader organization where appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

• 70% – Strategic and Enterprise Analytic Product Portfolio Development and Management
• 10% – Resource and Staff Supervisory Management
• 10% – Professional Development
• 10% – Communication

Position Information

• Salary or Pay Range: $116,300.00 – $254,700.00
• Salary Frequency: Monthly
• Salary Grade: Grade 27
• UC Job Title: BUS INTEL MGR 2
• UC Job Code: 005704
• Number of Positions: 1
• Appointment Type: Staff: Career
• Percentage of Time: 100
• Shift (Work Schedule): M-F 8am – 5pm
• Location: UCDHAS Building (HSP165)
• Union Representation: 99 – Non-Represented (PPSM)
• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• This position is hybrid (mix of on-site and remote work)

Qualification & Requirements

Minimum Qualifications – For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to upload license and/or certification if required of the position

• Bachelor’s degree in related disciplinary field such as Health Care Administration or Business Administration, or a closely related field with three to five years of experience in health care strategy or a combination of education and experience
• Several years demonstrated analysis experience using advanced statistical and other quantitative methods
• Several years supervisor or management experience and demonstrated skills necessary to be responsible for designing, planning, executing, and maintaining a portfolio of self-service analytic solutions for strategy and growth functions.
• Demonstrated management experience specific to healthcare analytics, including managing the full life cycle of related custom analytic applications.
• Demonstrated ability to measure product ROI throughout the product lifecycle.
• Skills and experience to translate nontechnical business requirements into actionable quantitative projects/insights
• Strong technical experience with applications supporting the creation of analytic applications – covering areas of data management, extraction / transformation / loading, and visualization (examples – SQL, Hadoop, Informatica, Tableau).
• Cloud experience desired. Expert data visualization and user interface / user experience design required – including expert capabilities in Tableau and MS Excel
• Fluent knowledge of data capabilities from healthcare provider information systems (e.g. EPIC Clarity / Hadoop, EPSi, Salesforce, ERP systems) and demonstrated ability to work with functional owners to collaborate on solutions (e.g. IT, Finance, Pop Health)
• Expert collaboration skills and experience with stakeholder management and prioritizing many data analytics requests
• Experience partnering with performance management teams on analytic application design to deploy solutions with proven operational improvement / measurable ROI.
• Strong experience in evolving solutions to match changes in required leading and lagging performance metrics through initiative lifecycles.
• Proven ability to execute on department requirements through contracted resources – ranging from consulting support through contracted task orders.
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills, including with senior leadership and customers
• Demonstrated skills and experience to manage and oversee market analytics staff – technical, analytical and intelligence skillsets – and influence cross-functional teams with diverse functional disciplines
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to manage complex information, assess problems, and develop effective solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree or higher in Health Care Administration, Business Administration, Business Analytics or related field.
• Highly developed knowledge and experience in healthcare strategy, finance, and operational analytics. Past experience in for-profit, non-profit, and start up environments. Demonstrated experience in large academic healthcare setting with knowledge of or ability to learn UC Davis Health organization, structure, clinical, research, and administrative departments.

Physical Demands

• Standing – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Walking – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Sitting – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Lifting/Carrying 0-25 Lbs – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Pushing/Pulling 0-25 Lbs – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Bending/Stooping – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Squatting/Kneeling – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Twisting – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Reaching overhead – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Keyboard use/repetitive motion – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours

Mental Demands

• Sustained attention and concentration – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Complex problem solving/reasoning – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Ability to organize & prioritize – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Communication skills – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Numerical skills – Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Constant Interaction – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Customer/Patient Contact – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Multiple Concurrent Tasks – Frequent 3 to 6 Hours

Work Environment

UC Davis is a smoke and tobacco free campus effective January 1, 2014. Smoking, the use of smokeless tobacco products, and the use of unregulated nicotine products (e-cigarettes) will be strictly prohibited on any UC Davis owned or leased property, indoors and outdoors, including parking lots and residential space.

Ability to travel on University business and work hours as needed.

Special Requirements – Please contact your recruiter with questions regarding which activities apply by position

• This is a critical position, as defined by UC Policy and local procedures, and as such, employment is contingent upon clearing a criminal background check(s) and may include drug screening, medical evaluation clearance and functional capacity assessment
• This position is designated as a mandated reporter under CANRA and UC policy, and employment is contingent on compliance with applicable policies, procedures and training requirements

Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

Benefits