Contract Analyst

Contract Analyst

Requirements

• 2 or more years of applicable experience
• High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Responsibilities

• Creating high quality, member-ready analytic deliverables to support members and revenue generation
• Identify and assist with issue resolution and troubleshoot data/tool issues for escalation to the Manager for resolution
• Assist the Manager to identify any gaps in member solutions including Sourcing/Contracting, Technology and Analytics
• Adhere to data standard and governance guidelines
• Follow Member Operation Plans outlining nuances for report creation
• Maintain an understanding of all the revenue driving, and value add products and services offered to, the membership
• Understand data flow, large data set review, and cleanup issues (ex: UOM)
• Conduct routine analytics required to demonstrate the value of Premier contracts and to drive contract penetration
• Be an expert on Supply Chain ITS tools. This includes the collection, uploading, management, and manipulation of all related data
• Respond to issues quickly and correctly and ensure they are resolved or escalated to the Manager
• Support the development of MVE goals of enabling Premier members to realize their supply chain and clinical improvement potential, optimizing the value of the GPO, clinical tools, and services
• Support an evolving analytics model by providing insights about data, optimization, performance, and technology
• Participate in cross functional teams across Business unit’s regional operations teams as requested
• Understand organizational structure and related product offerings
• Understand how supply chain collaboratives work, including rules and member and contract eligibility

Preferred Qualifications

• Health Care
• Business analytics
• Communication
• Intermediate/Advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint)
• Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information into more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs and distinguish solution ideas from requirements
• Familiarity with Advanced Business Intelligence tools or data pulls for strategic process creation
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of Premier data sources
• Ability to organize large amounts of data gathered during elicitation and analysis, and to cope with rapidly changing information
• Large data set review skills
• Customer service skills (internal and external customers)
• Ability to troubleshoot and communicate data/tool issues
• Organizational skills
• Detailed oriented
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Knowledgeable of Sourcing strategy and ability to integrate with analytics
• Ability to work independently and be self-accountable
• Experience in healthcare and IT environment preferred
• Similar analytic experience preferred
• Ability to prepare and present clinical and/or financial data utilizing Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Premier tools to share cost management and/or clinical performance improvement opportunities
• Bachelor’s Degree