Head of Data and Analytics COE

Develop, optimize and communicate BCNC’s Enterprise Data & Analytics vision and strategy 

• Establish and communicate a clear vision, strategy and roadmap that establishes ownership and accountability for fully realizing the enormous potential and impact of the company’s Data and Analytics assets. 

• Identify opportunities to accelerate value realization and create competitive differentiation leveraging Analytics. 

• Be a catalyst for transformation towards an analytically powered organization by evangelizing Analytics capabilities and relentlessly pursuing adoption across the enterprise. 

• Communicate results effectively to establish and enhance the reputation of our enterprise as a Data and Analytics driven organization. 

Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders and leadership team to enable impactful business Analytics 

• Partner with leaders to fully understand their most critical needs / priorities and provide consultative thought leadership on how best to leverage BCNC’s Analytics COE to achieve their business objectives. 

• Build strong, productive cross-functional relationships to ensure alignment, prioritization, and focus on the highest value initiatives to ensure optimal resource utilization. 

• Empower business users through powerful yet easy to use self-service capabilities that enable deep and proactive exploration, understanding, and insights into their specific business areas. 

• Work closely with the IT leadership to establish the infrastructure required for powerful analytics along with the high quality and well-governed data required to fuel it. 

• Lead and cultivate a best-in-class analytics function of highly skilled and innovative analysts and data scientists capable of supporting the evolving analytics needs of the enterprise. 

• Build relationships both within Blue Cross NC and the external data science and analytics community to continue to attract and retain the best and brightest employees. 

• Partner with HR to establish strong training and development programs that continually refresh analytical and data skills while building business domain expertise to create top-notch analytics talent. 

Build / partner as needed to ensure best in class analytics capabilities can support the broad needs of the enterprise 

• Partner with IT to build and continuously optimize our data & analytics technology stack to future- proof our business and develop highly competitive and differentiating data/analytics capabilities 

• Establish strong governance and best practices to ensure active management of risks around quality, privacy, bias, and disparate impact. 

• Stay abreast of emerging data and analytics capabilities that are relevant to our business; develop and implement strategic partnerships as needed to address critical enterprise needs and accelerate innovation / time to market 

What We Require 

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of leadership experience in analytics, healthcare analytics or business intelligence environment.  

• In lieu of degree, 14 years’ experience as listed above. 

 What We Love 

• Passionate, creative and innovative leader. 

• Proven track record of execution. Results driven. 

• Enterprise thinking. 

• Effective leadership skills building high performing teams and creating followership across the organization.