Sr Strategic Planning Analyst

Overview

Dignity Health one of the nation's largest health care systems is a 22-state network of more than 9000 physicians 63000 employees and 400 care centers including hospitals urgent and occupational care imaging and surgery centers home health and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate high-quality and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. For more information please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Responsibilities

Responsible for coordination of planning analytics across the assigned Region. Develops, structures,and leads strategic data analysis, synthesis of data and communication of insights in support of the clinical portfolio. Provides analytical support for strategic and business development planning projects/ studies/ processes of a quantitative and qualitative nature necessary to meet local and system-wide strategic planning and business development requirements. Provides analytical support to the assigned Region's Chief Strategy Officer and administrative leadership team under the guidance of the System VP of Strategic Intelligence to meet local and system-wide strategic planning and business development requirements.

• Analytical Support: Provides support to the local business development and strategy functions, including: Analytical models for assessing and forecasting, special studies, market assessments and competitive analyses, quantitative analysis and justification for new business opportunities and capital projects, preparation of business case documents. Provides analysis of external and internal data sources and develops related presentations to support senior-level decision-making. Provide analytical support as needed to assist Marketing and Sales staff in the markets with identifying growth opportunities and tracking growth performance. Runs complex analyses, forecasts and builds databases and data models.
• Ad Hoc analysis/ Business Development support: Conduct special research, data gathering, analytical and other project support as needed to promote strategic planning, business development and growth for the Region and associated markets. Monitors business plan results achieved and/or progress against identified benchmarks in order to assess the need for recommended changes to strategy or measures.
• Synthesis and Communication of analyses: Synthesizes and presents analytical findings, key insights and key recommendations to small and large group forums both verbally and in written formats. Produce presentations, reports, maps, graphs and other visual displays. May participate in organization strategic planning sessions and foster trust with organizational leadership and key stakeholders
• Project Support: Provide support, including project management, to assigned leadership in meeting system strategic planning and business development requirements including but not limited to Strategy Review / LRSFP, Certificate of Need, Medical Staff Development Plan, Community Health Needs Assessments, Network Integrity assessments, business plans and special ad hoc projects.

Qualifications

Required:

B achelor's degree, preferably in Business, Economics, Science, Math, Computer Programming or another related field

Minimum of 3 years; 5 years preferred experience in planning, marketing and/or business development, preferably in the healthcare industry

Preferred:

Healthcare Industry experience

Skills:

• Advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel and interactive database tools to complete analyses. Additional knowledge of:

• Statistical and analytical techniques
• Strategic planning principles and practices
• Market research, including survey development and analysis
• Software tools: including Data analysis (Microsoft Excel - expert level;) Word processing - proficient level; Data Base (Power BI - proficient level); Mapping - proficient; Presentations proficient;
• Ability to use relational data sets/ tools such as Sg2 and claims data sets; and Cost Accounting systems

• Demonstrated ability to :

• Appropriately prioritize projects of varying complexity and with competing deadlines.