Principal Analytics Analyst - Healthcare Data

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 Principal Analytics Analyst leads complex, high-impact analytics initiatives that support product strategy, business outcomes, and customer value. This role partners across the organization to translate complex business questions into actionable insights, scalable analytics solutions, and executive-ready recommendations that drive informed decision-making and measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex analytics initiatives (descriptive through prescriptive), selecting appropriate methodologies and ensuring statistical/analytical integrity.

• Frame ambiguous, high-stakes questions into analytic strategies, measurement frameworks, and decision-ready insights that support product development and sales enablement.

• Drive development of advanced models and decision frameworks (e.g., forecasting, propensity/risk models, segmentation, scenario analysis), including robust validation and monitoring recommendations.

• Set expectations for analytic rigor: reproducibility standards, documentation norms, sensitivity analyses, and transparent communication of limitations and assumptions.

• Partner with engineering and BI teams to establish reusable datasets, KPI definitions, and standardized reporting solutions that improve consistency and support self-service analytics across the organization.

• Mentor colleagues and team members; provide technical leadership through review, coaching, and development of best practices and playbooks.

• Serve as a trusted analytics partner by communicating insights, methodologies, and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and driving business outcomes.

• Identify opportunities for new analytics capabilities, tools, or processes that increase impact, reliability, and speed-to-insight.

• Lead the development of dashboards, visualizations, and reporting solutions, establishing best practices and reusable approaches for the analytics team.

• Translate complex data into clear insights, recommendations, and analytical narratives for internal and external stakeholders.

• Share perspectives on which insights, metrics, and visualizations may be most meaningful to customers and business stakeholders, while mentoring analysts on communicating analytics effectively.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Economics, or related field required;

• 8+ years of experience in advanced analytics, with substantial healthcare analytics experience preferred.

• Evidence of leading complex, cross-functional analytics that drove material product, commercial, or strategic outcomes; preferred experience with medication adherence analytics, prior authorization and utilization management analytics, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), and/or growth marketing analytics.

• Expert-level SQL and strong Python/R; deep knowledge of statistical methods, machine learning (where appropriate), and analytical experimentation/measurement design.

• Strong data visualization and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights and compelling presentations for business,

• Comfort working with large-scale healthcare datasets and navigating governance/privacy constraints responsibly.

• Experience delivering analytics, insights, and recommendations to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to lead without authority: set direction, align stakeholders, and raise standards across teams.

• Strong track record mentoring others and improving team capability through reusable assets and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD preferred but not mandatory

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 youcanbe 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 andmental 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.