Inovalon seeks a Data Analyst to support its Sales Analytics team.  The Sales Analytics team is dedicated to empowering a leading sales organization by providing actionable insights to optimize sales productivity and drive key metrics.  Working cross-functionally with Sales Operations, Finance, Technology and Sales Leadership, theData Analyst – Saleswill develop scalable solutions to solve complex data analytics needs, will create and track a full suite of KPI’s, and will ensure that business stakeholders have access to consumable dashboards, visualizations, and reports to enable them to make informed decisions, to identify gaps and to improve efforts in revenue generation. 

Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Work with stakeholders to identify Business Intelligence needs and work towards actionable data and insights
• Dive deep into data to uncover trends, data quality, and data completeness
• Support writing complex SQL queries and SQL performance tuning
• Support the development and implementation of data marts, data structures, functions, data warehouse fact & dimension tables, views, and indexes
• Provide guidance to leadership based on analysis of sales data with regards to business improvement
• In collaboration with leadership, define key insights and metrics which the business needs to address, and develop appropriate datasets, analytics, dashboards, or methods
• Create and maintain views into data sets to provide visualization of data analysis
• Take data analysis and insights capability to the next level; audit existing visualization dashboards, and work with stakeholders to recommend and create new reporting/insights
• Provide clear, timely, and accurate communication to business unit leadership/appropriate audiences on analysis, findings, and key insights
• Deliver training as required to teams on newly developed or improved processes, systems, and tools
• Identify data trends and make recommendations for quality improvement
• Support initiatives for data integrity and normalization
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement
• Adhere to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within Inovalon’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the undertaking of the position
• Fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success of the Employer

Job Requirements: 

• Minimum of 3 years related experience
• Possess advanced SQL skills
• Possess advanced business acumen and working knowledge of typical sales operations
• Through analysis, is skilled at providing the relevant information people need in order to succeed in their roles,  formulate accurate decisions and take appropriate action
• Proven track record of solving complex problems
• Experience in data visualizations/BI tools –  Tableau is preferred
• Strong knowledge of statistics and ability to translate this into non-technical terms
• Demonstrated success in building trusted relationships with internal/external clients and customers
• Passion for the use of data and business intelligence principles and their ability to optimize business outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to handle large data sets and relational databases
• Excellent organizational, leadership, interpersonal, communication (written, verbal, and visual), and analytical skills

Education: 

• Associate’s degree in technology or statistics required
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technology or statistical related field preferred
   

Physical Demands and Work Environment: 

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time)
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force 
• Frequently or constantly to lift, carry push, pull or otherwise move objects and repetitive motions
• Subject to inside environmental conditions
• Travel for this position will include less than 5% locally usually for training purposes