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Position Summary

The Executive Analytics & Corporate Insights team in the Medical Economics Unit is seeking a medical economics professional with the primary role of evaluating internal and external medical cost trend and trend drivers across all four of Aetna's major lines of business (Commercial Group, Commercial Individual, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid). This position will support a wide range of stakeholders, including Aetna/CVS Health Executive Leadership Teams, Finance, Actuarial, Network, Underwriting, Investor Relations, and Corporate Planning. The candidate will work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly changing environment and gain exposure to many different areas of the company through collaboration and communication of results in the form of standard quarterly reporting and ad hoc requests. The work delivered in this role will support Aetna's medical cost management strategy, pricing position and earnings generation.

• The primary responsibility of this position is to innovate, design, maintain, and interpret the results of Aetna's date of service (DOS) reporting of medical cost trends across all four major lines of business (Commercial Group, Commercial Individual, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid); this suite of reporting includes Executive Dashboards that are leveraged to communicate emerging financial results directly to Aetna's CFO and Chief Actuary
• This role will be support Aetna's medical cost forecasting process by developing recommendations for medical cost seasonality; working closely with Finance and Actuarial to ensure assumptions are incorporated properly into the forecasting process
• Proactively and independently identify critical medical cost issues and designs and recommends solutions to business problems to senior Executive leadership, and business partners
• Collaborates with other constituents on across Finance, Network, Underwriting, and Actuarial. Applies rigorous financial and value analysis to manage and enhance profitability and membership
• This analyst will consider the end-to-end user experience incorporating customer feedback to enhance the quality and usability of data, reporting, and tools
• A highly successful analyst will demonstrate the capability to identify and analyze drivers of internal and external medical cost trends and propose scenarios upon which a variety of cost saving actions can be taken
• Apply technology to improve business processes and compliance (SQL, Python, SAS, VBA, R, and full suite of Microsoft Office products) and actively participate in the change management process related to emerging technologies and data, specifically the adoption of ADAM (Aetna Date of Service Analytic Model) Cloud platform

• Perform complex medical and financial cost analysis to evaluate real time medical cost drivers and develop strategic options and opportunities to favorably impact medical cost across all four core lines of business
• Leverage strong communication skills and influence to lead development of new reporting and exhibits to provide deeper level of insight into drivers of medical cost trends to senior leadership Develops and presents actionable recommendations to management based on analysis.
• Collaborates with Medical Management on cost saving opportunities.
• Participates in research-related activities including industry best practices and experience studies.
• Performs other duties as required.

• 5+ years relevant experience
• 3+ years experience in data analytics, business, finance, or other related role

• Knowledge of key managed care functions including provider contracting, benefit design, medical management as well as knowledge of business functions and impact on financials (underwriting, sales, product development, network management)
• Expert analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational and time management and skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Ability to develop new content to inform and influence senior business leads and relevant stakeholders
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple projects concurrently.
• Demonstrated initiative, innovation, and leadership in achieving results
• Excellent critical thinking skills and ability to express ideas clearly, concisely, and logically from a cross functional perspective