Henry Ford Health

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Principal Planning Analyst supports the development and activation of strategy via data analysis, market research, stakeholder engagement, and project management.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strategy and Business Planning: The Analyst participates in the strategy development and activation processes for assigned business units/markets/service lines through completion of the below duties and responsibilities.
• Project Management: The Analyst works on and contributes to a portfolio of small, medium-, and large-scale strategic initiatives (“internal” consulting engagements), which will require the Analyst to:
  • Build and maintain work plans to guide tactical completion of work; and
  • Execute the work plans, ensuring delivery of high-quality work products within clearly defined timelines; and
  • Communicate regularly with all applicable stakeholders regarding progress, barriers, risks, and opportunities; and
  • Work collaboratively with Strategy and other leaders to prepare these strategies for activation by applicable operators to help the enterprise realize its desired objectives.
• Data & Analytics: The Analyst queries, extracts, and analyzes data from several sources to provide insights on growth and performance opportunities in support of our strategic efforts. The Analysts will translate those insights into a cogent story with findings and recommendations that supports management decisions while providing ongoing consultation and analytical support for such efforts. Specific duties including, but are not limited to, evaluating market utilization trends, tracking market share and volume performance, evaluating segments by service lines, specialties and markets, quantifying leakage and continuity of care opportunities, understanding the levers of financial performance, and collecting applicable volume and other inputs for financial business cases.
• Tools and Training: The Analyst will learn, maintain, and aid in the team’s training + adoption of various tools and methodologies necessary for strategy development and activation.
• Environmental and Competitive Intelligence: The Analyst monitors national, regional, and local trends and create, distribute, and/or present intelligence reports to the relevant stakeholders, both within discrete projects and on a recurring basis.
• Certificate of Need: The Analyst develops in-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements for covered services, provides consultation on CON requirements to system clients. Manages the preparation and submission of CON documents and establishes contacts within MDCH for project consultation.
• Customer and Market Research. The Analyst participates in the design, implementation and analysis of internal and external market research projects. Develops reports of findings and communicates results to internal clients.

Secondary Duties:

• Liaisons with other departments as necessary to complete projects.
• Completes other duties as assigned by the Director, Strategy & Activation.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Administration, Business Administration or related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Five to seven (5-7) years of experience within a healthcare setting required.
• Five (5) years of experience of advanced proficiency with data retrieval and analysis, database management, and spreadsheet analysis required. Project management skills required.
• Experience with mapping software preferred.
• One to two (1-2) years of Certificate of Need, Strategic Planning, and/or business plan development experience, preferred.

Additional Information

• Organization: Corporate Services
• Department: Planning
• Shift: Day Job
• Union Code: Not Applicable

Additional Details

This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

Overview

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.

Benefits

The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is

committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to

race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,

weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,

or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.