Sr. Manager, Customer & Market Insights

Position Summary:

CAQH is a national alliance of leading health plans and providers that provides critical data and technology-enabled solutions to help streamline and simplify business processes. Partnering closely with our health plan members, CAQH transforms information exchange between healthcare industry segments to make transactions more efficient. CAQH has established a market leadership position in provider data management and patient coverage solutions, and now seeks to expand its impact and reach by investing in new products and services in broader areas.

The Sr. Manager, Customer & Market Insights is a driven market research professional who works across the organization to develop, deliver, and scale the use of research, insights, and benchmarking to help advance our growth and mission. This person will be both market researcher and functional leader. She/he will have the chance to conduct primary and secondary market research in partnership with colleagues around the organization, and then develop a platform and repository of tools and insights that CAQH teams can take advantage of in their work.

The right candidate will be experienced in market research, competitive intelligence gathering, voice of the customer analytics, and assessment of both new and existing solution opportunities. She/he will be a collaborative change agent who can work with leaders across the firm on projects needing good market insights for business decisions. Strong preference will be given to candidates with experience building out a function that can scale the impact of work beyond a single project.

This is an excellent role for a self-motivated professional, looking to solve complex, challenging business problems; balance internal and external engagement; build their client-facing voice and presence and own an emerging function independently within a company.

This is a full-time, exempt, remote position and reports to the Vice President, Strategy & Partnerships at CAQH.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Lead market research, competitive intelligence, and solution benchmarking as a function and valued internal consultancy, generating insights and applying them across departments to drive improved business performance.
• Work cross-functionally to analyze product effectiveness and understand what is needed to improve product capability and or differentiation to win in the market.
• Oversee development and execution of annual and ad hoc market research projects to drive or address business challenges and opportunities.
• Build and maintain a portfolio of vendors with different market research expertise areas.

• Develop and manage a market intelligence governance process and platform for CAQH, including leading monthly steering committees.
• Track publicly available competitive news, announcements, and messaging to be reported to CAQH leadership.
• Provide actionable take-aways from research and helps business partners understand how to change their processes/actions as a result.
• Ensure all the organization's CMI resources are effectively leveraged to make a maximum contribution to grow the mission.
• Assist in the development of strategic business and marketing plans.
• Develop best-in-class testing frameworks that improve the likelihood of useable results.
• Stay up to date on emerging marketing data-related trends.
• Collaborate with product marketing, product management, finance, business development and other stakeholders.
• Translate business questions and marketing objectives into analytic hypotheses, data needs and reporting requirements.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Skills:

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with business and technical stakeholders using their terminology.
• Ability to support a mix of in-house and vendor-based resources.

• Ability to serve as a trusted business partner with product management, product marketing, sales, and account management.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively across matrix organizations to ensure stakeholder alignment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt messages for different audiences and marketing/communications channels.
• Strong analytic capabilities to analyze target audience market research, competitive intelligence, and in-house end to end conversion metrics (and others) to develop product capabilities to drive product and market growth.
• Ability to set priorities and manage projects, completing them on-time and on-budget. Proactive, independent self-starter with the ability to multi-task and effectively juggle competing priorities and keep the team members on track against deadlines and accountabilities.
• Ability to handle responsibilities and relationships within CAQH and among stakeholders with poise, tact, resourcefulness, creativity and flexibility.

Experience:

• 5 or more years in market research, competitive intelligence, product strategy, or related work required with strong presentation and communication skills.

Supervisory Experience:

• None.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred.

WHO WE ARE

Named one Modern Healthcare's "Best Places to Work," CAQH has helped nearly 1,000 health plans, 1.6 million providers, government entities and vendors connect, exchange information and operate more efficiently. CAQH technology-enabled solutions and its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) bring the healthcare industry together to make sharing business information more automated, predictable, and consistent. CAQH Insights researches opportunities to reduce the burden of manual processes in healthcare administration.

WHAT YOU GET

CAQH recognizes that its most important asset is its growing team of smart, creative, collaborative, forward-thinking and passionate professionals - and that a comprehensive employee benefits package is an important factor for them in choosing where to work. CAQH offers competitive compensation along with an extensive benefits package for all full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, tuition assistance and a 401k. We offer full-time remote work to all staff from any location and maintain a physical office in downtown Washington, DC.

CAQH is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all personnel actions, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, source of income, place of residence, or any other characteristic protected by law. CAQH will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly prohibited.

Applicants have rights under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA). If you are interested in applying for employment with CAQH and need an accommodation to apply for a posted position, contact CAQH Human Resources at 202-517-0436.

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