Title: Director of Analytical Services
Reports To: Vice President of Quality and Customer Experience
Class: Full-Time
Type: Salaried, Exempt
The Director of Analytical Services will lead the creation and expansion of a new analytics department focused on strategy, governance, and delivery of analytical insights within our organization, serving healthcare, education, and B2B markets. This strategic role is responsible for developing actionable, scalable analytics solutions, with a strong focus on healthcare clients, including those using Rauland’s Responder platform. The Director will build and manage an analytics and business intelligence team, partnering with IT, Technical Services, Innovation, and other teams as needed, ensuring alignment of analytics initiatives with client and organizational objectives.
A critical responsibility of this role is to define and track key success metrics for both the department and client-facing solutions. The Director will also be expected to guide their team in navigating the complexities of external organizational structures to identify, engage, and align key stakeholders, to promote analytics initiatives that drive measurable value and sustained adoption, with executive sponsorship and defined escalation paths.
The Director will provide oversight and accountability for the quality and timely delivery of deliverables for projects and recurring service contracts. Additionally, they will provide analytical oversight and validation for internal and demo environments, in partnership with technical teams responsible for environment maintenance and operations used for testing and customer-facing demos.
Key Responsibilities
• Department Leadership
◦ Develop and execute a comprehensive plan for building the Analytical Services department, including organizational structure, resource allocation, and technology roadmap.
◦ Lead recruitment, onboarding, and development of staffing model needed to obtain organizational objectives
◦ Establish and regularly review department, project, and contract-level key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure the department’s success is measurable, transparent, and actionable.
◦ Demonstrate a commitment to a culture that embodies our core values and H3 Lean guiding principles, fostering innovation, service excellence, a commitment to people, and the communities we serve
◦ Complete annual performance reviews and goal planning for direct reports.
◦ Establish and update development plans for direct reports.
• Healthcare Analytics Leadership
◦ Leverage deep healthcare industry experience to design and deliver analytics solutions tailored to healthcare environments.
◦ Direct projects involving Rauland’s Responder platform, optimizing nurse call and patient engagement data to enhance clinical workflows and patient outcomes.
◦ Ensure solutions comply with healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA) and best operational practices.
• Consultative Needs Assessment Program
◦ Define, implement, and manage a program to provide consultative needs assessment services for clients seeking customized reporting and dashboard solutions.
◦ Work closely with clients to understand their unique operational, clinical, and business requirements and provide customized solutions that also conform to the department's requirements for scalability and repeatability.
◦ Guide clients in defining success metrics and outcome measures to ensure solutions are aligned with strategic goals.
◦ Translate needs into actionable analytics projects, ensuring reporting and dashboard solutions are tailored, visual, and actionable.
◦ Continuously refine consultative methodologies to maximize value and client satisfaction.
• Oversight of Service Deliverables
◦ Provide oversight and quality assurance for all analytical service deliverables, ensuring timely and accurate completion for both project-based initiatives and ongoing recurring service contracts.
◦ Coordinate cross-functional teams to meet client expectations and contractual obligations.
◦ Monitor, report, and analyze performance metrics for all deliverables, leveraging these insights for continuous improvement.
◦ Proactively resolve service issues to maintain high client satisfaction.
• Internal Environment Management
◦ Oversee the analytics portion of internal environments, ensuring robust testing and development processes for new analytics solutions.
◦ Manage and optimize customer-facing demo environments, ensuring they accurately reflect capabilities and value for prospective clients.
◦ Collaborate with technical teams to maintain environmental integrity, data accuracy, and security.
• Client Engagement & Solution Design
◦ Engage with clients at key discovery, design, and executive review stages in healthcare, education, and B2B markets to identify business challenges and translate them into actionable analytical projects.
◦ Ensure the right stakeholder voices are included at every stage of the solution design and delivery
◦ Oversee the design and delivery of customized, yet scalable, analytics solutions, including exploratory and statistical techniques to create operational dashboards and formulate strategic recommendations.
• Technical Oversight
◦ Demonstrate advanced SQL expertise to navigate, analyze, and optimize complex relational databases, including those used in healthcare and operational systems.
◦ Guide the selection and implementation of analytical tools, platforms, and methodologies.
◦ Establish best practices and governance standards for data management, quality assurance, and reporting.
• Partnership Model
◦ Partner closely with Engineering, IT, Product, and external vendors to ensure analytics solutions are reliable, secure, and scalable.
◦ Collaborate with Product and Commercial teams to support analytics-enabled offerings and embedded reporting capabilities without direct ownership of product roadmaps.
◦ Work with Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to align analytics initiatives with business objectives and client outcomes.
• Authority and Decision Rights
◦ The Director is empowered to set analytics priorities, define engagement models, recommend analytical tools and platforms, and establish standards and methodologies, in alignment with executive leadership.
◦ The Director may prioritize analytics initiatives within agreed strategic and capacity constraints.
• Stakeholder Communication
◦ Present complex findings in a clear, visual, and actionable manner to internal and external stakeholders.
◦ Support business development activities by contributing to proposals, client presentations, and thought leadership.
• Out of Scope / Partnered Responsibilities
◦ Core data engineering, pipeline development, database administration, and infrastructure management are owned by others.
◦ Application development, hosting, and operational support of production systems are owned by others.
◦ Routine on-site customer demos, non-analytical service recurring client support, and sales enablement execution are handled by others.
◦ Day-to-day maintenance and technical administration of internal and demo environments are managed by others.
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Qualifications
• Education: Master’s degree in data science, Analytics, Informatics, or related field.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years in data analytics with leadership experience.
◦ Strong preference for candidates with previous experience in healthcare analytics.
◦ Experience with Rauland’s Responder platform is highly preferred.
• Technical Skills: Exceptional proficiency in SQL for navigating and querying complex databases. Proficiency in Python/R, BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), and cloud analytics platforms.
• Industry Knowledge: Robust understanding of operational complexities in healthcare, education, and B2B markets.
• Consultative Skills: Demonstrated experience in defining and delivering consultative needs assessments for customized reporting and dashboards.
• Service Oversight: Experience in managing deliverables for both project-based initiatives and ongoing recurring service contracts.
• Internal Environment Oversight: Experience managing analytics environments for testing and customer-facing demos.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to convey complex information visually and logically to diverse audiences.
Travel obligations include, but are not limited to:
• Occasional day or overnight travel (e.g., key client meetings, strategic events, or company-wide gatherings), expected to be limited in frequency and not inclusive of routine on-site demos.
Physical, Mental, and Environmental Requirements:
• Employees must stand, walk, climb, sit, and use their hands and fingers.
• Some lifting of objects up to fifty pounds is required.
• Reaching, grasping, and carrying activities are also required.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Although most work is performed inside, occasional outside activities are subject to seasonal temperature fluctuations.
SWC reserves the right to change any or all of this statement as required to allow the company to respond to market changes or changes in operational workflow. Also, this statement will be changed as required by State or Federal law. SWC is an at-will employer.
Management has the right to revise this description at any time. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason as outlined in the employee manual or other written agreement.