GPO Data Analyst - Healthcare

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a community dedicated to changing the world through teaching, discovery, and patient care. The GPO Data Analyst role provides essential analytic support for hospital members and clinics to optimize contract portfolios and track billable fees accurately.

Responsibilities:

• Communication
• Heavy use of Excel and other data tools
• Develop communications such as PowerPoint presentations, proposals, policies and procedures, and business summaries to enhance and support strategic and operational plans
• Think strategically and effectively implement tactical elements to ensure strategic goals are met
• Demonstrate creative problem solving through pattern reorganization and thinking along unconventional lines
• Demonstrated ability to work well with people at all levels of an organization
• Process Improvement and Analysis
• Develop continuous process improvement methods applicable to the field and designs plans for implementation
• Work with other team members to perform financial analysis, draw conclusions and make recommendations to leadership
• Participate in calculation, validation and updating of cost saving initiatives
• Gather data, analyze information, develop conclusions, communicate recommendations clearly and work effectively with others on a team
• Planning and Strategy
• Research current challenges and trends in the field and brings information and recommendations back to leadership for consideration
• Participate in business planning, needs analysis and business risk assessment
• Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
• Recommend measures to improve processes, employee performance, and quality of service provided to the customer
• Foster an environment that rewards new ideas and risk taking, builds confidence, encourages teamwork and collaboration
• Create and contribute to a work environment of openness, and mutual respect

Requirements:

• 3 years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Heavy use of Excel and other data tools
• Demonstrated ability to work well with people at all levels of an organization
• Develop communications such as PowerPoint presentations, proposals, policies and procedures, and business summaries to enhance and support strategic and operational plans
• Think strategically and effectively implement tactical elements to ensure strategic goals are met
• Demonstrate creative problem solving through pattern reorganization and thinking along unconventional lines
• Develop continuous process improvement methods applicable to the field and designs plans for implementation
• Work with other team members to perform financial analysis, draw conclusions and make recommendations to leadership
• Participate in calculation, validation and updating of cost saving initiatives
• Gather data, analyze information, develop conclusions, communicate recommendations clearly and work effectively with others on a team
• Research current challenges and trends in the field and brings information and recommendations back to leadership for consideration
• Participate in business planning, needs analysis and business risk assessment
• Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
• Recommend measures to improve processes, employee performance, and quality of service provided to the customer
• Foster an environment that rewards new ideas and risk taking, builds confidence, encourages teamwork and collaboration
• Create and contribute to a work environment of openness, and mutual respect
• Excel, Excel Pivot Tables, Excel VLOOKUP, and all other capabilities of Excel as an Advanced Excel user
• Use of evolving A.I tools