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We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors-our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!\nLearn more about our unique benefit offerings here.\nWant to know more? You can learn about life at Wellmark here.\n Responsible for extracting, integrating analyzing, and interpreting data from internal and external data sources, to develop intelligence packaging that draws conclusions and supports recommendations that will help to achieve business goals. Collaborate with team and key business stakeholders to ensure critical business objectives are met by following the analytics lifecycle within assigned domains. Work cross-functionally with business stakeholders to identify risk and provide solutions that drive data-enabled decisions.\n Required:\nFor consideration, you must meet one of the following educational/technical requirements:\nBachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, or economics.\nLess than 1-year hands-on experience with specific experience in data or statistical analysis, including data collection, joins, analysis, statistics and/or data presentation. 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Source, extract, assemble, collate, and consolidate data needs for the business.\nc. Profile and prepare data for analysis.\nd. Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes, using tables, graphs, and charts, as well as algorithms, forecasts, and trends.\ne. Interpret results, identify key findings to quantify business value.\nf. Develop a narrative to summarize and convey findings to stakeholders. Make recommendations based on findings.\ng. Create, update, and maintain a production schedule for reporting and ensure reports and presentations are completed on schedule.\nh. Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives, meeting aggressive timeframes.\ni. Collaborate with peers to identify reporting objectives and develop reports and analyses that meet their need and drive Wellmark’s value proposition for stakeholders.\nj. Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidation, aggregation, and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc.\nk. Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources.\nl. Other duties as assigned.\nAn Equal Opportunity Employer\nThe policy of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.\nApplicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact us at \nPlease inform us if you meet the definition of a \" Covered DoD official \".\nAt this time, Wellmark is not considering applicants for this position that require any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please refer to the following resources:Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants\nWellmark supports and expects the responsible use of AI for our workforce! 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