Location: Elkridge, MD (Hybrid)
Position Type: Full-time
Shift/Hours: 40 Hours per week
Salary: $120,000 – $140,000
The mission of the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) is to serve Maryland’s hospitals and health systems through collective action that shapes policies, practices, financing, and performance to advance health care and the health of all Marylanders. MHA advocates for members and their constituents—caregivers, patients, and communities—before state legislative and regulatory bodies. MHA also supports member organizations in their shared efforts, both within the field and in partnership with other private- and public-sector stakeholders, to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care services.
Job Summary
The Maryland Hospital Association is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Health Care Analytics to join its team in Elkridge, MD. Reporting to the Senior Vice President for Health Care Analytics, this role will provide leadership across analytics projects that advance MHA’s advocacy, policy, communications, and performance improvement priorities through high-quality data analysis, visualization, and strategic insight.
The Assistant Vice President will help guide the Health Care Analytics Team by supporting project oversight, staff supervision, team development, prioritization of departmental work, and timely execution of deliverables. This role will lead the development of analyses, dashboards, policy models, and data tools using health care claims, financial, quality, and total cost of care data to identify trends, evaluate policy impacts, support member hospitals, and inform stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate will bring strong management skills, advanced analytical judgment, excellent communication abilities, and experience translating complex health care data and policy concepts into clear, actionable insights for internal and external audiences.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Management and Leadership
- Provide insights and advice to the Senior Vice President to help shape the prioritization of the team’s work in support of MHA’s advocacy, communications, data, and analytics products.
- Support the Senior Vice President in guiding members of the Health Care Analytics Team through supervision and oversight of assigned projects and processes, and help drive the overall team’s performance.
- Lead and mentor team members while fostering a collaborative, results-oriented culture focused on analytical excellence, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
- Provide strong day-to-day management for assigned analytics staff, including setting priorities, coaching team members, supporting professional development, and ensuring accountability for high-quality, timely deliverables.
- Help drive the timely completion of departmental and interdepartmental deliverables to facilitate cross-departmental excellence in achieving MHA’s mission and vision in support of members.
- Analytics and Data Strategy
- Conceptualize data analyses and visualizations to identify trends, opportunities, and anticipated impacts of federal payment policy changes.
- Design and develop new data visualizations, dashboards, and analytical tools to better analyze and interpret health care data for advocacy, policy development, and performance improvement.
- Analyze performance and identify opportunities to reduce the total cost of health care in Maryland using Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) data and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) claims.
- Design and develop replications of HSCRC and CMS financial and quality policy models and processes to share policy performance results with hospitals on a more concurrent basis so they can monitor and influence performance.
- Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
- Translate complex health care data, payment policy, and performance results into compelling data visualizations and clear, actionable insights for advocacy purposes.
- Use data visualization and other communication tools to translate complex policies for hospital, internal, and external stakeholder engagement.
- Provide in-person departmental representation as requested for internal and external meetings, presentations, events, and other functions.
- Support the development of white papers and monitor relevant data trends to inform MHA policy, advocacy, and communications priorities.
- Collaboration, Innovation, and Process Improvement
- Support collaboration efforts with state and federal agencies to maximize Maryland data efficiencies.
- Recommend innovative ideas, processes, procedures, enhancements, and modifications to improve existing systems, workflows, data products, and analytical tools.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in health sciences, health care administration, or quantitative field or equivalent work experience; master’s degree preferred.
- A minimum of 7-10 years of relevant experience in health care analytics, policy analysis, data strategy, hospital finance, or a related field.
- Demonstrated management experience leading analytics, policy, health care, or cross-functional teams, including supervising staff, setting priorities, managing complex projects, developing team capabilities, and driving execution across multiple competing priorities.
- Experience modeling the impact of policy and legislative proposals on hospital finances using a broad range of health care data, such as claims, operations, and clinical quality data, is required.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, SQL, Python, and/or R.
- Experience with HSCRC and CMS hospital level data and payment methodologies preferred.
Qualifications
- Strong people management, project management, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust, communicate expectations clearly, align team capacity with organizational priorities, coach staff through complex analytical assignments, and ensure timely, high-quality deliverables.
- Excellent analytical and/or operational problem-solving skills; demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative/qualitative analyses and provide insight for informed decision-making by identifying trends/patterns within complex data sets and visualizing and deploying the data to appropriately inform stakeholders.
- Outstanding research, oral, and written communication skills required with the ability to interact with multiple internal and external audiences.
- High attention to detail and ability to track and maintain required deadlines.
- Ability to work with risk adjustment methodologies, grouping methods, and common statistical approaches.
- Knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid policy innovations and Maryland’s Total Cost of Care Model is a plus.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship now or in the future.
Benefits
The Maryland Hospital Association offers employees a low-cost, comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with employer-matching contributions; and additional benefits.
EEO Statement
MHA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.
To apply, please send resume with cover letter and salary requirements to jobs@mhaonline.org.