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Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Pharmacy Lead) - Remote
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Overview
Here at Cedars-Sinai, our projects represent a new age in medical research and innovation, and we’re proud of the progress our team continues to make. Together, we can match the right treatment to the right patient at the right time for the best possible outcomes.
- Job Type: Full-time regular
- Job Shift: Day
- Shift Duration: 8 hour
Success Profile
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- Digitally savvy
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- Independent
- Problem-solver
- Strategic
- Versatile
Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Pharmacy Lead) - Remote
Job Description
Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!
Building on a legacy of innovation, Cedars-Sinai is harnessing rapidly evolving breakthroughs in AI technology to enhance patient care, improve efficiency, advance scientific discovery, and cultivate greater physician and staff wellbeing.
The organization’s Healthtech excellence was acknowledged again, this time by the esteemed “CHIME Digital Health Most Wired“ recognition program. Cedars-Sinai was assigned a Level 10—the most prestigious level of certification—among more than 300 surveyed healthcare organizations. Cedars-Sinai netted high scores across multiple verticals and particularly excelled in areas of infrastructure, interoperability, and population health innovation.
Why work here?
Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.
What you will be doing:
The Principal Data Intelligence Analyst (Pharmacy Lead) serves as a strategic partner and primary analytics resource for pharmacy clients, leaders, clinicians, and designated staff. This role focuses on understanding pharmacy operations, supporting client needs, translating business requirements into actionable insights, and delivering high-value reporting and analytics solutions across the organization.
The ideal candidate combines strong pharmacy operations and client-support experience with the ability to work comfortably with data, reporting tools, and technical teams. Technical experience with SQL, Python, artificial intelligence, and Epic Willow is beneficial, but the primary emphasis is on pharmacy domain expertise, stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, and successful delivery of pharmacy analytics and reporting solutions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact for pharmacy clients, operational leaders, pharmacists, clinicians, and other end users.
- Lead client engagement, discovery sessions, and consensus-building activities to understand pharmacy reporting and analytics needs.
- Translate pharmacy workflows, operational challenges, and business questions into clear data, reporting, and analytics requirements.
- Support pharmacy operations through analysis of medication utilization, dispensing, inventory, formulary management, medication access, clinical services, financial performance, quality, and efficiency measures.
- Lead strategic pharmacy analytics and reporting projects from initial concept through requirements documentation, development, testing, deployment, training, and ongoing support.
- Collaborate with report developers, data engineers, IT teams, pharmacy leaders, and other cross-functional partners to deliver reliable and usable solutions.
- Provide quality assurance, data validation, reconciliation, issue investigation, and end-user support for pharmacy reports and dashboards.
- Use data from internal and external sources to analyze complex pharmacy and operational problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Provide subject matter expertise on pharmacy reporting systems, tools, workflows, and performance measures.
- Mentor peers and demonstrate leadership on complex initiatives as needed.
*Prefer someone living locally or willing to relocate to LA area, but open to remote in Approved States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Texas*
Qualifications
Experience Requirements:
Ten (10) plus years of experience in pharmacy analytics, pharmacy operations, healthcare analytics, business analysis, data analysis, client support, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience supporting pharmacy clients, pharmacy leaders, pharmacists, clinicians, or healthcare operations teams.
Strong understanding of pharmacy workflows, processes, performance measures, and operational challenges.
Experience facilitating requirements-gathering sessions, performance-improvement initiatives, reporting projects, or quantitative analyses.
Demonstrated ability to manage the full analytics delivery lifecycle, including business and clinical understanding, requirements documentation, data analysis, testing, deployment, training, and end-user support.
Ability to communicate effectively with pharmacy stakeholders and translate between business needs and technical requirements.
Educational Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, Health Informatics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
A PharmD, master’s degree, pharmacy informatics experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience is preferred.
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Diversity and Inclusion at Cedars-Sinai
We are caretakers and innovators committed to the pursuit of equitable healthcare. But health equity is not possible without representation. Our commitment to diversity goes beyond demographics or checking boxes. Our people must reflect the diverse identities, experiences and geographies of the communities and patients we serve – because that’s what our patients, colleagues and communities deserve Quality Care and Research—For All, By All.
Our compensation philosophy
We offer a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base pay range shown generally applies to the greater Los Angeles area and may vary based on work location. Our range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including knowledge/skills: relevant experience and training, education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. The base pay range does not include any incentive payments that may be applicable to a role. Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision (PDF) .
Cedars-Sinai is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
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Career Path
We offer many career paths to support your immediate and future success.
- CS-Link Associate Application Specialist
- CS-Link Application Specialist I
- CS-Link Application Specialist II
- CS-Link Senior Application Specialist
- CS-Link Lead Application Specialist or EIS Application Architect (CS-Link)
- Manager, Application Development
Rewards
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Healthcare
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Retirement Plans
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Professional Development
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Awards & Recognition
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