Healthcare Business Analyst; Hybrid

About Stanford Medicine Catalyst

Stanford Medicine Catalyst was created to cultivate and advance the unmatched innovation that occurs  select the inventions and ideas that have the highest potential to have a transformative effect on health and biomedicine at global scale and support them to evolve and prepare for commercialization through pilot projects, prototyping, deployment in active health systems, business planning, market analysis, connections with the investment community and the development of future executive leadership teams.

The program leverages the full range of resources and capabilities of Stanford, including all aspects of the University and Stanford’s health systems (Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health). Catalyst was formed as part of the Stanford Medicine Integrated Strategic Plan and is supported by the Dean of the School of Medicine and the two CEOs of the health systems.

At Stanford Medicine we are inventing the future and improving patient lives every day. Few positions have a more direct impact on launching Stanford innovation to make a worldwide impact and interact directly with such an amazing array of individuals. We hope you will join us!

We are seeking a Catalyst Business Analyst to facilitate and administer programs or functions under minimal supervision. The Catalyst program identifies strong candidates for translational projects inside the Stanford Medicine clinical areas to validate and de‑risk medical innovations. The Business Analyst (BA) role is a critical part of this mission. This person will review candidate projects. After project selection, the BA may continue to assist a project’s development.

Ideal candidates will have a passion for healthcare, the pulse of the healthcare startup community, and know how to talk to, and interface with, brilliant entrepreneurs.

• The Business Analyst will assist in execution of the Catalyst Evaluation process for projects seeking entry into the Catalyst program. Due Diligence includes:
  Market Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Business Plan Review, IT and Data Analysis, alignment with Stanford, SWOT analysis.
• Participate in assessing and providing recommendations to Stanford Medicine Catalyst Leaders for review and approval.
• Facilitate the planning and operations for programs or functions that have significant business, regulatory and/or technical challenges requiring subject matter expertise.
• Evaluate programs or functions, policies and procedures; identify issues and develop alternative solutions, which may include changes to programs, policies and procedures.
• Review and analyze trends to advise and develop recommendations to achieve or modify the goals of the program or function.
• Represent the program or function within the department, unit or school, commit resources and provide information and/or training.
• Represent the program or function at the university level and/or to external/internal stakeholders and constituencies.
• Manage and contribute to the development of outreach strategy that may include relationship development, communications and compliance.
• May develop and/or oversee budgets; manage finances including monitoring, analyzing, forecasting, and reporting.
• May lead cross‑team efforts or direct other staff or interns to complete projects.

• A passion for health care.
• A passion for the health care startup marketplace.
• Avid reader of health care entrepreneurial news streams.
• Analytical, and you have a passion for data.
• Understand entrepreneurs and what they are going through.
• Can bridge the needs and language of an academic medical center and industry.

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Business, Science, or related field.
• Strong technical and quantitative skills, with demonstrated ability to execute complex analysis.
• Ability to communicate effectively to build influential relationships with senior management, executives and external partners.
• Experience managing projects/programs with successful delivery to deadlines.
• Experience with the following software:
  Google Suite, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Airtable, Smartsheets,…