Associate Director, Client Analytics

Your Future Evolves Here

The Client Analytics team provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with key business, analytics, product, and operational leaders to deliver client-specific insights and drive data-informed decision-making. Our team serves as strategic advisors, analysts, and subject matter experts, leveraging data to uncover meaningful business insights. We value curiosity, creativity, and independence, working collaboratively to solve complex challenges and enhance the impact of our specialty programs and administrative platform.

Role Overview:

The Associate Director role on Client Analytics will support both internal tand external partners, delivering analyses that drive Evolent’s value proposition, and will have supervisory responsibilities. This role requires a blend of managerial skills, technical expertise (SAS, SQL, Excel, BI tools) and consultative skills to lead a team of 2-3 FTEs, transform complex data into actionable insights and create compelling narratives for stakeholders.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Strategic Data Analytics & Insights: Lead advanced analyses of healthcare authorization, claims, membership data, and clinical outcomes to uncover cost drivers, utilization trends, and opportunities for integrated care solutions using SAS, SQL, Excel, and Power BI (or similar BI tools).
• Consultative Leadership & Problem-Solving: Act as a thought partner to senior stakeholders, proactively identifying business challenges, refining analytical approaches, and delivering strategic recommendations that drive enterprise-wide decision-making.
• Scalable & Innovative Solution Development: Design and implement standardized, scalable analytical frameworks that enhance efficiency, consistency, and impact across internal teams and external partners.
• Advanced Reporting & Compliance: Lead the development of regulatory and ad hoc reporting strategies, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and alignment with evolving business needs.
• Data-Driven Storytelling: Craft high-impact presentations and data visualizations that articulate complex analytical findings in clear, actionable ways for executive and client audiences.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership: Serve as a key liaison between analytics, clinical, product, and account management teams to drive alignment, foster collaboration, and deliver high-quality insights that enhance Evolent’s market position.
• Manage a team of 2+ full-time employees.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Public Health, or a related discipline).
• 5+ years of analytics & reporting experience in healthcare, including medical economics, cost/utilization analysis, and membership trend reporting.
• 2+ years in a lead/management role over multiple team members. Experience directing and developing analytic talent.
• 5+ years of SQL and SAS programming experience working with large healthcare datasets.
• Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to extract meaningful insights from both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Self-motivated problem-solver with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Effective collaborator who thrives in cross-functional environments, working seamlessly with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of prior authorization processes, reporting, and key performance indicators (e.g., approval rates, turnaround times, PMPM, trend drivers), with a working knowledge of healthcare claims and reimbursement methodologies.
• Experience creating dashboards using BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau or similar) is preferred.
• Experience presenting actionable business insights to client executives and internal leadership is preferred.
• Familiarity with value-based care models and utilization management frameworks is preferred.

To comply with HIPAA security standards (45 C.F.R. sec. 164.308 (a) (3)), identity verification may be required as part of the application process. This is collected for compliance and security purposes and only reviewed if an applicant advances to the final interview state. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations. 

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact recruiting@evolent.com for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $110,000 - 125,000. This position is also eligible for a bonus component that would be dependent on pre-defined performance factors. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.