James Rennie Email & Phone Number

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

•Lead and mentor the Value-Driven Analytics and Business Intelligence Development teams, providing oversight and direction. Promote a collaborative culture rooted in principles of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning.•Spearhead the adoption and deployment of genAI solutions within the analytics platform to enhance data analysis capabilities and streamline reporting workflows. Focus on integrating AI-driven insights to provide predictive analytics, automate data processing, and deliver more actionable intelligence.•Oversee the LumerisRealize analytic platform, including the development, maintenance, and support of Tableau dashboards. Coordinate cross-functional collaboration with development and implementation teams on high-visibility projects such as healthcare utilization benchmarking, provider scorecards, and Executive Enablement reporting for population health service organizations.•Drive the development of analytic frameworks to address critical client questions on the financial impact of performance metrics, value tied to quality measures, and clinical program outcomes. Support healthcare medical economics, program analytics, and IBNR reporting.•Serve as scrum master, guiding the team in agile methodologies and facilitating cross-functional collaboration to improve processes and deliverables.•Oversee end-to-end development, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and consistency in analytic reports. Collaborate with product teams to align reporting solutions with strategic goals, managing stakeholder expectations effectively.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Responsible for new product development, delivery, support, and strategy for Business Intelligence across Lumeris. Additionally, responsible leading and managing multiple BI teams, ensuring we are developing and implementing innovative solutions in support of Lumeris and our clients.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

West Des Moines, Iowa, Us

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Analytical Lead• Developed, in collaboration with the business, detailed analyses to answer specific business questions and needs, while identifying the appropriate analysis technique to use.• Used analytical skills and knowledge, combined with internal or external data sources, to yield actionable findings and developed specific recommendations and insights for the business; presented findings and recommendations to various levels of management.• Partnered with internal and external resources to execute analytics projects including the development and maintenance of predictive and optimization modeling and behavioral studies.Technical Leadership • Worked closely with business users to design, develop, and maintain ad-hoc reports that tracked and measured specific marketing projects, such as campaigns and brand team initiatives.• Developed proficient data mining and manipulation skills using available tools and databases (SAS, Teradata, Hadoop, Adobe Analytics etc.) to extract more intelligence from the data and provide better insights and recommendations.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Healthcare Data Expertise• Served as subject matter expert for healthcare claims data, and in this role partnered with business users and clients to interpret and apply data insights to assess program performance and turn data into action.• Thought leader in SAS and technology enhancements, offering technical expertise within the team and leading others in Data Step/SQL/Procedure shell scripting.• Designed SAS and SQL programs for both ad hoc requests and automated processes. This often involved analyzing and incorporating supplemental data sources, sub-queries, macro facilities, the application of statistical and manipulation functions, and ensuring that process flows were fully tested and documented.Client Reporting and Project Management• Responsible for managing client and business projects, driving deliverables to completion, as well as reporting on due dates, milestones and all client activities as assigned by manager and team. Attended client conference calls and on-site meetings to document client deliverables, client summary notes and follow up items.• Partnered with Account Managers to narrow the reporting focus for each account. Prepared and developed client presentations. Assisted in the development, coordination, and materials necessary for site visits / client meetings.Healthcare Domain Knowledge• Supported a new-to-market healthcare analytics product launch by partnering with marketing group to develop and execute a successful integrated marketing strategy.• Engineered and oversaw regulatory ETL submissions to Health and Human Services (HHS) servers. This required technical ability to read specifications and support the claims aggregations, analysis, and submission to comply with HHS requirements. Served as project lead to handle process flow, user management, auditing, and transformation of data files. Complete data files were accepted at a 99% acceptance rate, well above industry standards.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Sales Forecasting• Working with the Director of Sales, designed and implemented pricing program that encouraged customers to grow into full line of products by receiving rebates, credits, and product discounts by increasing their business with Hager.• Forecasted and tracked marketing and sales trends by analyzing collected data. Reconciling these with budget, SOP, sales forecasts, and statistical forecasts.• Extracted and manipulated large datasets and spreadsheets utilizing advanced Excel, SQL, and VBA scripts.Project Management• Identified and filled gaps in business needs by providing project leadership for data analytics, process and workflow redesign, cost containment, position management, new department initiatives, and product planning parameters.• Organized Six Sigma events to improve processes that were inefficient and unfocused.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

People and Process Leader• Responsible for scheduling, training, auditing, and providing support to team of research analysts.• Led the design and implementation of effective research methodologies, supported strategic planning for market research and customer analytic initiatives.• Initiated quality control processes within department to discover flawed data. Data Analysis• Served as lead analyst on primary accounts.• Gathering data on competitors and analyzing prices, sales, and methods of marketing and distribution.• Measuring and assessing customer and employee satisfaction.• Collecting and analyzing data on customer demographics, preferences, needs, and buying habits to identify potential markets and factors affecting product demand.• Created and reviewed data tabulations and advanced statistical procedures to uncover relationships in data. • Prepared reports of findings, illustrating data graphically and translating complete findings into written text that offered recommendations and conclusions based on research findings.

Virginia Beach, Va, Us

Bs, Marketing

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General