A Career of Your Calling

About Blue Cross

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is one of the most recognized and trusted health care brands in the world with 2.5 million members. We’re committed to reinventing health care to improve health for our members and the community. We hope you'll join us.

How Is This Role Important to Our Work?

This role sits on our Market Competitiveness team within Provider Relations, supporting price transparency initiatives, specifically machine-readable file deliverables. The Market Competitiveness Data Analyst evaluates provider reimbursement data, systems, and business processes to identify opportunities for improvement and to support data clean-up efforts and data integrity initiatives. This position assists in identifying issues, gathering, analyzing, and interpreting a wide variety of data, and presenting results and recommendations to management and other stakeholders. This role may represent the department/division on corporate projects, coordinate stakeholder (internal or external) data needs, and may be the project lead on routine projects.

A Day in the Life:

• Monitors and oversees the monthly business process to produce publicly available machine-readable files with the support of external vendors, the market competitiveness team and other business partners.
• Identifies issues to be researched, determines affected areas, estimates the impact, and assists in resolution and business enhancements.
• Acts as a subject matter expert on special projects and initiatives. The role will vary depending on the project but could include project lead, subject matter expert, or contributor.
• Navigates systems to research, analyze, interpret, and derive pertinent information from data and organize it methodically, logically, and concisely to translate into actionable next steps.
• Receives assistance/direction from either management, principal(s), or senior(s) team members.

Nice to Have:

• Bachelor's degree.
• MS Office
• Experience working in the managed care/healthcare insurance industry.
• Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Experience with Testing Strategies, Data Gathering Analysis.

Required Skills and Experiences:

• 3+ years of related professional experience. All relevant experience including work, education, transferable skills, and military experience will be considered.
• Demonstrates oral/written communication skills to effectively communicate business information to technical audiences.
• Able to work on multiple priorities, deadlines, and adapt to change.
• Highly motivated self-starter with strong analytic, problem-solving, and organizational skills and acute attention to detail.
• Demonstrates the ability to cultivate and maintain strong relationships both within the organization and with external partners.
• Assists in evaluating and interpreting complex data solutions based on technical, business, and industry knowledge.

Make A Difference

Blue Cross is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer that values diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodation for Job Seekers with a Disability: If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to talent.acquisition@bluecrossmn.com.

All roles require a high school diploma (or equivalency) and legal authorization to work in the U.S.

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