Business Intelligence Analyst II - Strategy, Innovation & Technology Development

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Business Intelligence Analyst II

Exciting Opportunity at MSK

We are seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst with strong technical skills, adept at applying them to real-world problems, and comfortable communicating complex topics to non-technical audiences. You will work to support MSK’s strategic priorities, new initiatives, and partnerships.

Role Overview:

• Serve as a critical thought partner to business stakeholders within the Strategy, Innovation, and Technology Development department.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into structured questions that can be answered analytically. Translate complex analyses back into a straightforward narrative that can be understood by business leaders.
• Manage analytical projects from "question to answer", including problem framing, data collection and validation, exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, visualization, synthesis, and presentations.
• Find creative approaches to answering questions that do not have a clear methodology or data source.

 Sample Projects:

• Assess the cancer care quality of new and existing MSK Care Partners and other potential partnerships. 
• How can we use data to identify which of MSK’s programs should grow? How can we identify the different barriers to growth and develop a strategy to overcome them?
• How can we use external claims data to better understand referral patterns? How can we use this information to direct MSK’s strategy of which community providers to build partnerships with?

 Key Qualifications:

• 4-7 years of experience using analytics to impact key business decisions.
• Proficiency using R (preferred) or Python to create reproducible data analyses.
• Comfort working in relational databases and SQL.
• The ability to develop production-grade dashboards using Tableau, Shiny, Power BI etc.

 Core Skills:

• A critical thinker with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willing to act and eager to embrace new challenges.
• Curiosity, self-motivation, and a strong desire to use your skills to help MSK’s leaders make better decisions.
• The ability to choose the right technical approach for a question (from a statistical model to a dashboard and everything in between) and know that the simplest solution is often the best one.

 Additional Information:

• Location: 633 Third Avenue, NY
• Reporting to The Principal Data Scientist, Strategy & Innovation
• Schedule: Onsite once a week

Pay Range: $120,200 - $192,300

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