What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Planning Analyst | System Transformation Office position at UF Health?
Overview
The Strategy Analyst supports market-level and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives by delivering market intelligence, data analysis, and insights at the direction of Market Directors of Strategy and Strategy leadership. The role synthesizes internal and external data to inform growth opportunities, strategic planning, and initiative performance, supports scenario analysis and business case development with Finance, and provides flexible analytical support across multiple strategy projects as organizational priorities evolve.
Responsibilities
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree; Master’s Preferred
Experience
The Strategy Analyst supports market-level and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives by delivering market intelligence, data analysis, and insights at the direction of Market Directors of Strategy and Strategy leadership. The role synthesizes internal and external data to inform growth opportunities, strategic planning, and initiative performance, supports scenario analysis and business case development with Finance, and provides flexible analytical support across multiple strategy projects as organizational priorities evolve.
Responsibilities
- Synthesizes and interprets internal and external datasets—including HMR/EMR data, patient demographics, referral patterns, payer mix, pricing data, and market intelligence—to support enterprise and market-level strategic initiatives.
- Provides analytical support across multiple concurrent strategy projects under the direction of Market Directors and Strategy leadership.
- Sources, aggregates, validates, and maintains data related to industry trends, demographics, competitor activity, and regulatory developments to inform strategic decision-making.
- Develops clear, structured reports, dashboards, and presentations to communicate insights, trends, and strategic implications to leadership and key stakeholders.
- Supports strategic planning through scenario analysis, financial modeling, and business case development in collaboration with Finance.
- Performs data analysis to support ROI assessments, performance tracking, and evaluation of strategic initiatives.
- Monitors policy and regulatory changes, assessing potential impacts to market and enterprise strategy.
- Conducts market landscape assessments, competitive analyses, and synergy evaluations to support partnerships, joint ventures, and M&A activities.
- Tracks and benchmarks competitor performance to identify shifts in the competitive landscape and inform strategic responses.
- Builds and maintains scalable analytical workflows and data pipelines to ensure efficient processing and accessibility of market data.
- Continuously improves analytical methodologies, processes, and data quality to enhance efficiency and timeliness of insights.
- Collaborates with Legal to ensure compliance with HIPAA, data-sharing agreements, and applicable regulations.
- Partners with IT to evaluate and implement analytics tools that enhance capabilities and accelerate time-to-insight.
- Provides flexible analytical support across the enterprise as strategic priorities evolve.
- Supports Strategy leadership with ad hoc analyses, reporting, and special projects as needed.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree; Master’s Preferred
Experience
- 2–5 years of experience in strategy, management consulting, analytics, healthcare strategy, finance, or a related analytical role.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing complex datasets and translating data into clear insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Experience supporting strategic planning, market analysis, competitive analysis, or business case development.
- Working knowledge of healthcare markets, provider economics, payer dynamics, or regulated industries strongly preferred.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally (e.g., Finance, IT, Legal) to support strategy or analytics initiatives.
- Proficiency with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Tableau/Power BI, Python/R preferred but not required).
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and adapting to shifting priorities.