Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Devoted Health is on a mission to improve the health and well-being of older Americans by caring for every person like family. They are seeking an analytically driven Associate Director for Medicare Advantage Bid Strategy & Analytics to design, price, and optimize their MA benefit portfolio, collaborating with executive leadership and various departments to ensure financial sustainability and competitive positioning.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain bid financial models connecting benefit decisions to plan economics: MCR analysis, PMPM normalization, plan-absorbed benefit value estimation, and version-over-version delta tracking across pricing iterations
- Pressure-test benefits across markets to identify pockets of adverse selection risk; quantify the financial exposure and recommend design adjustments to improve risk posture and protect plan performance
- Monitor CMS regulations, payment methodologies, risk adjustment updates, and Stars payment changes for downstream impact on benefit strategy and plan economics; provide executive-level interpretation of what changes mean for our portfolio
- Build and refine the algorithms that generate benefit values across hundreds of PBPs — translating high-level strategic intent into precise, implementable benefit logic at scale, and identifying and resolving the edge cases those algorithms surface
- Support new product and plan flavor development from opportunity sizing and financial viability assessment through full benefit build-out: doing the analytical groundwork that makes leadership decisions possible, then executing implementation once direction is set
- Evaluate plan portfolio decisions with full financial and competitive context: plan terminations and crosswalks, Stars implications, market entry and exit tradeoffs, and the member impact of structural product changes
- Synthesize analytically complex findings into clear, decision-enabling recommendations for senior leadership and the executive team
- Write and maintain production SQL (Snowflake) supporting the benefit cascade system: multi-CTE pipelines for plan benefit calculations, lead/non-lead enforcement logic, MCR-driven benefit deterioration and enrichment, and bid review outputs
- Build Python scripts and automation workflows that reduce manual effort in the bid cycle — benefit workbook generation, data validation, and analytical tooling that scales with a growing plan portfolio
- Use AI tools — including agentic workflows and AI coding assistants — as a core part of how you work; actively contribute to how the team evolves its use of AI to automate, scale, and improve bid operations
Skills
- Direct Medicare Advantage bid mechanics experience — you understand BPTs, how the bid math works, what MCR means and how it constrains benefit decisions. This is the foundation of the role and hard to teach; you need to come in with it
- 5–8 years of relevant experience at a Medicare Advantage health plan or actuarial/consulting firm (Milliman, Wakely, Oliver Wyman, or similar)
- Able to operate independently from day one, demonstrating strong business judgement and comfort with ambiguity
- Strong modeling skills: you build analytical frameworks from scratch, interpret complex bid and actuarial data, conduct benefit scenario analyses, and translate findings into strategy — pairing technical depth with executive-level 'so what'
- SQL fluency — you write complex queries, debug multi-CTE pipelines, and reason about data architecture in the context of a benefit calculation system
- Python proficiency — you build scripts, automate analytical workflows, and work with structured data without hand-holding
- A proactive and adaptable mindset; the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment where the work is rarely fully defined before it starts
- Familiarity with MA benefit design: cost-sharing structures, benefit category logic, and how individual benefit decisions interact with plan economics and CMS requirements
- Familiarity with Stars, QBP eligibility, and the downstream plan portfolio implications of rating changes
- Experience building or working within automated benefit generation systems, cascade pipelines, or large-scale bid tooling
- ASA or FSA designation is not required, but candidates with actuarial training who have decided they want strategy and product work over pure pricing are a strong fit and a profile we actively welcome
Benefits
- Employer sponsored health, dental and vision plan with low or no premium
- Generous paid time off
- $100 monthly mobile or internet stipend
- Stock options for all employees
- Bonus eligibility for all roles excluding Director and above; Commission eligibility for Sales roles
- Parental leave program
- 401K program
- Our total rewards package is for full time employees only. Intern and Contract positions are not eligible.
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