Entity: - Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Team: - Global Network – Data & AI

Practice: - Health Analytics  

Title: - Data Science Senior Manager

Job location: - Gurgaon/Bangalore/Mumbai

About S&C - Global Network: - Accenture Global Network - Data & AI practice help our clients grow their business in entirely new ways. Analytics enables our clients to achieve high performance through insights from data - insights that inform better decisions and strengthen customer relationships. From strategy to execution, Accenture works with organizations to develop analytic capabilities - from accessing and reporting on data to predictive modelling - to outperform the competition

Health Care Analytics Practice focused to support Payer and Provider clients reimagine and design variety of custom business contextual solutions and bring pre-built capabilities to life in their journeys to harness the power of data.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Lead efforts to harness data-driven insights to solve complex challenges in the health insurance sector. This role involves strategic oversight of analytics initiatives that utilize health insurance claims, provider data, and publicly available datasets.
• Develop and oversee AI-powered predictive models and employ natural language processing to enhance analytical capabilities.
• Manage multiple analytics teams, ensuring adherence to data science best practices and project specifications.
• Spearhead interactions with health insurance clients, understanding and addressing their data analytical needs.
• Coordinate with external vendors and internal stakeholders across projects to ensure seamless integration and execution of data-driven strategies.
• Drive business development efforts and small project initiatives to expand client base and service offerings.
• Lead planning and operational management within the team, including talent acquisition, training, and performance evaluations.

What you would do in this role

• SME for Health domain with 11-15 years of extensive experience in Analytics related activities in this domain
• Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Identifying business development opportunities for our Analytics offerings that are aligned with client agendas and develop compelling business case/response to new business opportunities.
  • Support development of Health Analytics practice through activities like staffing, quality management, recruitment, capability development, knowledge management, etc.
  • Developing trusted senior level relationships with clients, target clients and internal experts, qualifying opportunities and negotiating complex solutions.
  • Facilitating stakeholder engagement programs
  • Lead client engagements that may involve a variety of model build, validation, governance, implementation, and end to end delivery of Analytics driven solutions for Accenture’s clients. 
  • Define the analytical needs of the organization and translate them into actionable data science projects.
  • Employ advanced analytical techniques such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing to analyze healthcare data.
  • Translate complex analytical findings into clear and concise reports and presentations for various stakeholders, including clinicians, executives, and patients (depending on the role).
  • Identify trends and patterns in healthcare data to inform strategic decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and enhance patient care.
  • Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in healthcare analytics and data science.

Who are we looking for?

• Proficiency & Experience:
  • Strong understanding of Health Industry nuances with exposure Best Practice in the Industry
  • Excellent Go-to market skills for Business Development
  • Thought leadership to guide team towards building capabilities required for delivering quality results to Clients.
  • Good people management, client management & project management skills
  • Strong people management skills both at client site and an offshore environment

• Technical Skills:
  • Proficient in data handling suites Python, Spark, SQL, or similar packages
  • Strong knowledge of dashboard & visualization development best practices
  • Strong aptitude, ability, motivation, and interest in placing quantitative analysis in the context of health care business for providers / payers/Public health systems
  • Experience working with cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • In-depth knowledge of healthcare data and regulatory environment (HIPAA etc.) is a plus.
  • Experience working with Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems is a plus

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