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From: EG
Date: 10 Apr 2008
Subject: Schenectady, NY or Rochester, NY: Predictive Modeling Analyst at MVP Health Care

MVP Health Care is a growing health benefits company headquartered in Schenectady, NY. MVP currently employs 1700 employees and serves membership in most of New York State, Vermont and New Hampshire. Please check out our website at www.mvphealthcare.com/jobs for more information about our company and to complete an on-line application.

Candidates must complete an MVP on-line application to be considered for employment.

MVP currently has an opportunity for a Predictive Modeling Analyst located in either our Schenectady or Rochester office. MVP/PC is developing new and innovative value-added services and products for its customers and prospective customers. Utilizing health care analytics and predictive modeling techniques will be critical to understanding what drives consumer and account value. The Predictive Modeling Analyst, will employ the most advanced informatics data mining tools and methodologies in a cutting-edge research environment.

The successful candidate will utilize MVP's longitudinal data repository of medical claims and survey responses for over 600,000 covered lives. The incumbent will manage strategic projects focused on new product development, next generation customer pricing plans, optimization of marketing practices, evaluations of health plan product structures, and assessments of medical intervention activities. This position will be responsible for developing useful analytics models and provide insightful consulting advice to Sales and Marketing executives that will aid in the identification and development of market segments, key account and product strategies, target marketing, sales strategy formulation and future product offerings.

Qualifications include:

  • Graduate degree in applied statistics, econometrics, etc.
  • 5+ years of research, modeling or actuarial experience in healthcare
  • Proven ability in statistical modeling and data mining techniques (GLM, clustering, decision trees, etc.)
  • Experience in preparing large, complex, and dirty datasets for analysis. Experience with large relational databases
  • Knowledge of health insurance products and operations.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Strong organizational and documentation skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills. Excellent oral presentation and written skills to effectively express ideas and information
  • Experience with medical claims and HRA surveys preferred
  • Experience with SPSS programming
MVP offers a great work environment, excellent benefits including an on-site fitness center and a competitive compensation package.

Contact:
For consideration apply online at www.mvphealthcare.com/jobs.

Here is a direct link to Predictive Modeling Analyst job.

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