Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DataSpring is a healthcare data connector that helps improve how essential information flows across the healthcare system. The Sr. Research Analyst owns research projects end to end, designing surveys, analyzing healthcare data, generating insights, and leading reports and issue briefs. The role also partners with leadership and cross-functional teams to translate strategic priorities and research findings into actionable plans and recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Manage research projects from concept through publication, including scoping, work planning, timelines, and deliverables, including support of the annual Index
- Design and field surveys, including draft questionnaire development, sampling and analytical approach, mode selection, and coordination of fielding logistics
- Manage external vendors and partners
- Monitor project risks, response rates, data quality, timeline slippage, and escalate issues early with proposed solutions
- Maintain documentation of methodology, assumptions, and limitations
- Clean, validate, and analyze survey and healthcare data to support the research agenda and organizational initiatives
- Identify the story in the data - patterns, trends, segment differences, and year-over-year movement - and generate meaningful findings
- Lead the drafting of research reports, issue briefs, and summaries for various audiences, including PowerPoint presentations
- Translate research results into clear implications and recommended actions for leadership
- Support marketing, product, and leadership teams with insights, data points, and content for campaigns, speaking engagements, and enablement materials
- Present findings to internal stakeholders and, as appropriate, external audiences
- Partner with the Sr. Director to translate strategic priorities into concrete, feasible research plans
- Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, and Business teams to align research with organizational needs
- Monitor industry trends, policy developments, and stakeholder needs to identify emerging questions worth exploring
- Identify opportunities to extend or refresh established studies to maintain their relevance
Skills
- Proven ability to oversee and manage multiple research and data collection projects
- Develops and implements research designs and methodologies, including surveys, interviews, and analyses
- Applied quantitative experience analyzing survey or other health care data
- Quantitative and qualitative analytic capabilities to compile, distill, and interpret data
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to clearly convey findings and insights to broad audiences
- Ability to take complex topics and synthesize into user-friendly documents such as issue briefs, PowerPoint presentations, and annual reports to stakeholders
- Interest and understanding in how research connects to organizational priorities, with the ability to anticipate how findings may be used to support decisions and strategic objectives
- Strong experience in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- Ability to simultaneously perform multiple assignments and follow work plans
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Desire and ability to learn new and challenging content areas
- Maintains an intellectual curiosity about how to accomplish goals through industry collaboration
- Minimum of six years of related work experience in the healthcare industry with a bachelor's degree or minimum of four years of related work experience in the healthcare industry with a master's degree
- Proven ability to lead and manage multiple research projects involving survey data collection, including the design, execution, analysis and reporting of the research
- Bachelor's degree in healthcare policy, healthcare research, healthcare administration, public health, or a related field required
- Understanding of healthcare administrative burden and workflows, and the key parties involved is desirable
- Working knowledge of Qualtrics is desired
- Knowledge of healthcare administrative burden and workflows, the key parties involved, and industry dynamics is desirable
- Master's degree preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees
- 401(k) with company contributions and matching for full-time employees
- Paid parental leave for full-time employees
- Tuition assistance for full-time employees
- Generous paid time off for full-time employees
- Professional growth support over time
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