Principal Client Consultant

at  Health Care Service Corporation

At HCSC, our employees are the cornerstone of our business and the foundation to our success. We empower employees with curated development plans that foster growth and promote rewarding, fulfilling careers.
Join HCSC and be part of a purpose-driven company that will invest in your professional development.
This position is responsible for performing research and assisting in analyzing financial and health data, including medical algorithms to determine health care expenditures, medical and economic outcomes, and cost containment strategies. Analyzes complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers. Identifies and interprets trends and patterns in datasets to locate influences.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors’ Degree and seven (7) years’ experience in health care services, statistical analysis, or insurance industry economics including four (4) years’ experience in data analysis and information reporting relating to healthcare data, including pharmacy
  -OR-

Ten (10) years’ experience in health care services, statistical analysis, or insurance industry economics including four (4) years’ experience in data analysis and information reporting relating to healthcare data, including pharmacy

• Recognized as an expert within HCSC
• Anticipates internal and or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Contributes to the development of functional strategy
• Leads project teams to achieve milestones and objectives
• Progression to this level is typically restricted on the basis of business requirements

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Analytical Thinking: Anticipates the implications and consequences of situations and takes appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies; anticipates possible problems and develops contingency plans in advance; notices trends in the industry or marketplace and develops plans to prepare for opportunities or problems; anticipates the consequences of situations and plans accordingly; anticipates how individuals and groups will react to situations, information and plans accordingly.
• Communication for Results: Adapts communication; tailors communication to diverse audiences; reads cues from diverse listeners to assess when and how to change planned communication approach to effectively deliver message; communicates equally effectively at varied organizational levels; understands others’ underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns and communicates effectively despite the sensitivity of the situation.
• Conceptual Thinking: Sees crucial differences between current situation and things that have happened before; quickly identifies the central or underlying issues in a complex situation.
• Information Seeking: Recognizes and interprets the information and/or problem; establishes a plan of search; conducts the search; evaluates the results, and if necessary, iterates through the process again.
• Initiative: Plans work and carries out that work without detailed instructions; makes constructive suggestions; prepares for problems or opportunities in advance; undertakes additional responsibilities; responds to situations as they arise with minimal supervision; creates novel solutions to problems; evaluates new technology as potential solutions to existing problems
• Openness to Learning: Works to improve the performance of oneself and others by pursuing opportunities for continuous learning/feedback; constructively helps and coaches others in their professional development; exhibits a “can-do” approach and inspires associates to excel; develops a team spirit.
• Results Orientation: Focuses on the desired end results of one’s own or one’s unit’s work; sets challenging goals; focuses effort on the goals, and meets or exceeds them; develops challenging but achievable goals; develops clear goals for meetings and projects; maintains commitment to goals in the face of obstacles and frustrations; finds or creates ways to measure performance against goals; exerts unusual effort over time to achieve a goal; has a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done.
• Teamwork: Reinforces team members for their contributions; works for solutions that all team members can support; shares expertise with others; seeks opportunities to work on teams as a means to develop experience and knowledge; provides assistance, information, or other support to others, to build or maintain relationships with them.
• Thoroughness: Double-checks the accuracy of information and work product to provide accurate and consistent work; provides information on a timely basis and in a usable form to others who need to act on it; carefully monitors the details and quality of own and others’ work; expresses concern that things be done right, thoroughly, or precisely; completes all work according to procedures and standards.
• Understanding Environment: Demonstrates awareness of general goals and makes requests or decisions to support this awareness; knows how to use the formal and informal systems to get things done.

Please refer the Job description for details