System Senior Director of Data & Analytics

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

This position will be based at our corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO and will require relocation upon acceptance of the position. This role will follow a hybrid model with 3 days in the office each week.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Angela Jones

Executive Talent Partner

[email protected]

Job Summary:

Responsible for the strategy, governance, delivery, and adoption of enterprise data and analytics capabilities that support the organization's strategic goals and objectives. Oversees enterprise reporting, business intelligence, data governance, analytics, and advanced analytics platforms and operations to ensure data assets are trusted, accessible, secure, and capable of delivering measurable clinical, operational, and financial value. Partners with business, clinical, and technology leaders to establish priorities, drive data-informed decision making, deliver actionable insights, and advance a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversees business intelligence, reporting, dashboard development, and analytics delivery functions and leads enterprise data and analytics (D&A) strategy, governance, and operating model.

• Establishes enterprise data governance policies, standards, stewardship, and metric definitions.

• Develops and executes a D&A strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities.

• Partners with executive, operational, and clinical leaders to prioritize data and analytics investments.

• Ensures enterprise data assets are accessible, timely, accurate, reliable, secure, and compliant.

• Leads D&A intake, portfolio management, prioritization, and resource planning processes.

• Establishes goals, service level objectives, KPIs, and value metrics for data and analytics services and recruits, mentors, and develops D&A leaders and staff.

• Provides strategic guidance on data and analytics architecture, platforms, and emerging technologies and supports data and analytics literacy that promotes a culture of data-driven decisions.

• Builds and manages relationships with key stakeholders to advance D&A capabilities adoption

• Supports data and analytics literacy that promotes a culture of data-driven decisions.

• Recruits, engages, develops, leads, and manages assigned staff.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

• Ten years of experience, with five in leadership.

Department:

9601000099 Platform Innovation Arch Eng and Ops

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Read our notice of non-discrimination (https://www.ssmhealth.com/privacy-notices-terms-of-use/non-discrimination?\_ga=2.205881493.704955970.1667719643-240470506.1667719643)