Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cedar is a leading healthcare technology company focused on improving the patient financial experience through data science and consumer-centric design. The Strategist 3, Value Analytics role is designed for a high-performing individual contributor to drive performance improvement analyses and translate complex data into actionable insights for Cedar's clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead performance improvement analyses across Cedar’s products and client base, identifying trends, root causes, and opportunities related to patient billing, collections, self-pay performance, and broader revenue cycle outcomes
- Translate complex data into clear, persuasive value stories for internal leaders, prospective clients, and existing clients, with an emphasis on financial impact, operational opportunity, and patient experience
- Support strategic workstreams tied to Cedar’s roadmap and market differentiation by helping quantify value, frame business cases, and surface insights that inform growth priorities
- Conduct standard and bespoke analyses such as ROI modeling, collections lift analysis, benchmarking, trend analysis, and performance deep dives that help teams understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what to do next
- Partner cross-functionally with Commercial, Client Management, Product, Data Science, and Data Platform teams to scope analyses, validate findings, and ensure recommendations are grounded in both data and operational reality
- Develop a deep understanding of how client data is structured, mapped, and interpreted within Cedar’s ecosystem in order to troubleshoot issues, strengthen measurement approaches, and improve analytical credibility
- Bring a consultative approach to ambiguity by structuring vague business questions into testable hypotheses, analytical workplans, and executive-ready recommendations
- Operate independently across multiple priorities, driving work from problem definition through analysis, synthesis, stakeholder alignment, and final delivery
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in consulting, strategic analytics, performance improvement, revenue cycle analytics, value engineering, business intelligence, or similar analytically rigorous, business-facing roles
- Strong revenue cycle management knowledge, including familiarity with patient billing workflows, collections performance, and the metrics that matter most to provider organizations
- Experience using data to diagnose business performance, develop recommendations, and tell a clear story to non-technical audiences
- Strong analytical toolkit, including comfort working with large datasets and leveraging standard AI tools to complete complex analyses, synthesize findings, and answer nuanced business questions
- Ability to synthesize ambiguous inputs into structured narratives, practical recommendations, and stakeholder-ready materials
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively across functions and levels of seniority
- Experience working in a client-facing or consultative environment where success depended on both analytical rigor and credibility with business stakeholders
- Prior experience in healthcare consulting or performance improvement work focused on revenue cycle optimization
- Familiarity with EHR and billing data ecosystems, including platforms such as Epic or Cerner and how those systems interface with patient-facing tools
- Experience with benchmarking, baselining, or value realization analyses in a healthcare or SaaS environment
- Experience building dashboards in BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Omni, with the understanding that dashboard development is a supporting capability rather than the core focus of the role
- Exposure to data modeling, dbt, or analytics engineering concepts that improve partnership with technical teams, even if hands-on ownership is not central to the role
Benefits
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
- This role is also equity eligible
- Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
- Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
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