Long-Range Forecasting Consultant – Pharmacy, Senior
Elevance Health
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: St. Louis • Montana • Texas • United States
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About the role
- responsible for developing and maintaining a 6–36 month demand and workforce forecasts
- partners closely with Pharmacy Operations, Workforce Management (WFM), Finance, Human Resources, Sales and Analytics
- develops and maintains long-range volume forecasts using historical data, seasonality, benefit cycles, and business drivers
- builds predictive and scenario-based models to assess demand variability and risk
- monitors forecast accuracy and continuously refines models using variance analysis
- collaborates with Finance on labor budgeting, reforecasting, and cost optimization
- quantifies workforce impacts of new programs, regulatory changes, or benefit design shifts
- manages ROI Analysis of pharmacy initiatives impacting workflow and productivity
- presents forecasts, assumptions, and risks to operational and executive leadership
- creates clear, executive-level summaries and dashboards
- provides expertise to lower-level consultants on the analysis of business needs
- leads teams of analysts assigned to the most complex projects
Requirements
- Requires a BA/BS
- minimum of 10 years business analysis experience
- minimum of 3 years of experience as a Business Consultant
- working knowledge of mainframe computer, hardware and operating systems
- 10+ years of experience in workforce forecasting, capacity planning, demand forecasting highly preferred
- Advanced proficiency in Excel (complex models, Power Query, pivoting) highly preferred
- strong analytical capability highly preferred
- Healthcare operations knowledge highly preferred
- Ability to translate complex forecasts into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders highly preferred
- Experience with Workforce management tools (e.g., NICE, Verint, Aspect, or similar), BI tools (Power BI, Tableau), SQL, Python, or R preferred
- Master’s degree (MBA, MS Analytics, MS Operations Research) preferred
Benefits
- merit increases
- paid holidays
- Paid Time Off
- incentive bonus programs
- medical benefits
- dental benefits
- vision benefits
- short and long term disability benefits
- 401(k) + match
- stock purchase plan
- life insurance
- wellness programs
- financial education resources
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
demand forecastingworkforce forecastingcapacity planningvariance analysisROI analysisadvanced ExcelSQLPythonRpredictive modeling
Soft Skills
analytical capabilitycommunicationcollaborationleadershippresentation skillsproblem-solvingteam managementactionable recommendationsbusiness analysisconsulting
Certifications
BABSMBAMS AnalyticsMS Operations Research