Clinical Research Scientist

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 Humana’s Clinical Strategy and Analytics (CS&A) Team is seeking a Research Scientist 2 (Remote).

Healthcare is rapidly changing, and our members are living longer, often with more chronic conditions. The Clinical Strategy & Analytics team identifies opportunities and build solutions to improve clinical outcomes and lower costs for millions of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries through an evidence-based approach using data analytics, clinical expertise, strategic mindset, and rigorous study designs. In this multi-disciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with strategy partners and clinicians to shape Humana’s enterprise clinical strategies and initiatives.

The Research Scientist 2 applies mathematical, statistical, and epidemiologic principles to identify trends, assess variable associations or cause-effect relationships, and size potential opportunities using high volumes of complex data. The Research Scientist 2 work assignments are varied and frequently require interpretation of data/information and independent judgement.

Responsibilities

As a Research Scientist, you will:

• Collaborate with analytic and business teams to set objectives, approaches, and work plans
• Leverage a wide range of analytics methods ranging from descriptive to prescriptive to transform high volumes of complex data into analytics solutions and actional insights
• Collaborate with clinicians and clinical informaticists to define various clinical concepts and extract clinical information from medical, pharmacy, and lab claims for analytics and modeling purposes
• Translates analytic results into key takeaways and communicate to business partners
• Understands department, segment, and organizational strategy and operating objectives, including their linkages to related areas
• Make decisions regarding own work methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations with general guidance

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Economics, Statistics, Clinical Informatics, Mathematics, Data Science, Data Analysis and/or related fields
• Demonstrated strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated strong interest in healthcare and desire to make a positive impact on population health
• Flexible, dynamic personality who can work independently and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team
• 2+ years of experience in applying mathematics, statistics, epidemiologic or econometric principals to transform high volumes of complex data into actionable insights
• Clear and concise oral and written communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex methodologies and analytical results to higher-level business insights and key takeaways 
• Proficient in manipulating and analyzing data with at least one of the programming languages such as Python, R

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare or …