Python Job: Data Science for Healthcare Research Specialist

Welcome!

Accenture Research is a global, award-winning team providing insights and analysis to Accenture and its clients throughout the world. Joining Accenture Research translates into continual opportunities to expand on what you can do. Our researchers come together with a wide variety of skills and backgrounds to create talented teams of problem-solvers. We hope you’ll want to join us!

About Accenture Research

Accenture Research uncovers trends and shape data-driven insights through market research and business intelligence for Accenture and its clients. Accenture Research combines deep understanding of Accenture clients’ industries with leading-edge research techniques to discover the most pressing issues facing organizations today.

Our growing team of over 300 researchers and analysts develops thought-provoking research - supported by proprietary data and partnerships with leading organizations that guides our innovations and allows us to transform theories and fresh ideas into real-world solutions for our clients.

Our team uses innovative business research techniques such as economic modeling, AI, crowdsourcing, expert networks, surveys, data visualization, and open research with Tier 1 academic and business partners. Accenture Research powers hundreds of points of views published by Accenture every year, answers thousands of thought-provoking questions from clients around the world, drives the insights that guides Accenture’s business strategy and handles Accenture’s exclusive network of data and sources covering all industries, countries, market trends and digital technologies. The team is part of Accenture’s Strategy Office.

We work in two primary areas:

• Developing positioning papers and understanding trends: Accenture creates original, cutting-edge points of view to use with clients, the media and in conferences. Most of our projects are published and quoted in the media and you are expected to have a voice and an opinion on the industry both inside and beyond Accenture. Research into industry trends informs publications and the direction of our business.

• Client-focused research: We work alongside our colleagues from the practice to provide research on clients’ business challenges and opportunities, support proposals, engagements and day to day discussions with clients on their business and industry.

About the role

This role is in our Data Science Global Team and it will be fully dedicated to support research for our Healthcare industry team. Our Health practice is heavily data-driven when providing forward-thinking recommendations to our Payer and Provider clients. This Specialist will work directly with our Data Science team to create new models, analytics, interactive dashboards, and viewpoints to advance the understanding of how to optimize wellness and health in targeted populations.

The candidate for this new role should exemplify a deep understanding of, and interest in, the application of Health data by Health Payers and Providers to deliver high-quality, cost-efficient healthcare to its consumers and patients. Our Health clients desire new tools, methods, and models to advance their missions to improve the lives of their members and communities.

We are looking for candidates with a passion for data-driven business research and insight discovery and communication to help solve the world’s most complex problems at the intersection of business, technology, and society. We offer a career aligned to our priority of creating innovation and impact, managing complex data driven research projects, with multinational and multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Help in the design and execution of groundbreaking and differentiated research through the adoption and implementation of appropriate analytical methods
• Develop novel data-driven approaches to support current and future research projects
• Foster the adoption of data science research tools and outputs within Accenture industry teams (econometric modeling, text analytics, sentiment analysis, data-wrangling, machine learning, web-scraping etc.)
• Curate Health data assets in conjunction with our consulting teams, data scientists, and researchers to build value-added models and tools
• Participate with Health practice leads to identify original analysis and insights through the curation of Health data for publication in reports, blogs, articles, and POVs.

What we offer:

• We have access to 100+ business data sources through our research data lake. We are constantly expanding our universe of data from commercial and open sources and partnering with premium data providers to improve quality of inputs into our models. These sources help our data driven research teams derive new key indicators of performance or maturity that differentiate our insights from other research organizations.
• We provide several unique training opportunities to continue your growth. These include both internal trainings, on the job, personal exploration time to work on novel methodologies without the constraints of a projects and with leading universities or vendors like MIT, Oxford U, Datacamp.
• Opportunity to connect and present findings to leadership teams and senior audiences, coming from diverse backgrounds. This offers the opportunity to hone your skills on the ability to easily explain and translate technical concepts into business actions.

Your skills

We are looking for someone who has the following core skill sets:

“Hard” skills:

• Track record in economic research projects using econometric modeling and data science.
• Excellent understanding of modeling tools (e.g.Python , R) and techniques (cross-section and time-series econometrics, clustering models, experimental design, machine learning, etc.)
• Skilled in SQL queries, experience validating data flows and prepare ETL processes according to business requirements.
• Knowledge of Cloud environments is a plus: Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or other cloud platform
• Strong storytelling skills to communicate new development of data resources to our Health consultants while ensuring adherence and compliance to usage terms and rights.
• Understand the opportunity to structure and combine disparate Health data to provide original insights, solutions, and recommendations.
• Excellent English.
• Familiarity with NLP models is a plus

“Soft” skills:

• Enthusiasm for healthcare research and analytics. Willingness to learn from a wide variety of Health data sets and data elements including those found in medical claims, electronic health records (EHR), Medicare Cost Reports, CMS-Limited Data Sets, health plan statement filings, benchmarking (operational, staffing, financial, utilization), quality measurements, and customer satisfaction.

• Enthusiasm to work effectively - independently, collaboratively, and virtually - in a global, multi-cultural, multi-time zone team
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize appropriately and effectively
• Problem solver approach to work
• Entrepreneurial attitude
• Strong professional qualities: client focus, decisiveness, integrity, resilience to stress against stretch goals and deadlines
• Strong communications skills (focus on actionable intelligence) and good interpersonal skills in one-to-one and team settings

Additional Information

Reports to: Sr. Manager in Data Science research

Education: Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or similar.

Work Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant economic research and data science experience (incl. coding in R or Python)
• Global / large private corporation or institution, research think tank or recognized research government agency

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Preferred start date: As soon as possible

What to expect

Accenture is a company of around half a million employees in 53 countries and your first weeks will be spent getting to know the organization. As you become more familiar with the organization you can expect to start work on one or more projects. There is no typical day or project at Accenture Research, but you might start by working on an analysis of one of our clients or potential clients or get involved in developing practical industry growth models, for example of the food industry in Asia, working with a specialist in this area.

Over time you will find a varied project load develops and that you will be working on between two and four projects at any given time, of different durations and scope. You’ll build a good working relationship with the other researchers worldwide. The team operates mainly on a virtual basis.

In terms of career development there will be tremendous scope to expand and build on this role. A dynamic, proactive researcher will find many opportunities to learn and grow at Accenture.

The research team is genuinely a great place to work. There will be times when you work long and hard, but we put life/work balance very high on our agenda.