Senior Associate - Healthcare Pricing & Proposal Analyst

Summary

Blake Willson Group is a technology-focused firm that delivers financial management solutions and strategies for federal mission objectives. The company is seeking a Healthcare Pricing & Proposal Analyst to evaluate complex federal healthcare acquisition pricing, validate financial and actuarial materials, compare offeror submissions, identify risks, and prepare defensible pricing analyses and negotiation support.

Responsibilities

• Review solicitation pricing requirements, evaluation criteria, contract terms, periods of performance, geographic regions, benefit categories, and supporting-data requirements
• Review and organize offeror pricing workbooks, narratives, actuarial materials, utilization data, staffing information, and supporting schedules to validate completeness and required documentation
• Perform detailed financial and mathematical validation, including formulas, totals, cross-references, escalation factors, rate applications, and reconciliations between pricing workbooks and proposal narratives
• Analyze proposed rates, unit prices, fees, discounts, reimbursement methodologies, trend assumptions, regional adjustments, staffing costs, and other pricing drivers
• Normalize and compare pricing across offerors, contract periods, regions, populations, and benefit categories using Government estimates, historical data, market benchmarks, and supporting information
• Identify missing information, calculation errors, inconsistencies, unsupported assumptions, outliers, unbalanced pricing, ambiguities, and potential financial or performance risks
• Coordinate with actuarial and technical consultants to evaluate pricing assumptions and develop clarification questions, while supporting proposal revisions, final proposal revisions, and negotiations
• Prepare pricing findings, comparison matrices, analytical workpapers, exhibits, tables, charts, and financial-impact analyses to support Price Analysis Reports and negotiation recommendations
• Maintain organized, reproducible, source-selection-ready workpapers and documentation, including issue trackers, clarification logs, version histories, source references, and supporting calculations
• Conduct peer review and independently verify calculations, source data, assumptions, and conclusions while protecting procurement-sensitive information and operating in an advisory capacity to Government personnel

Skills

• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and have the ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Healthcare Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline
• 4+ years of experience in pricing, financial analysis, proposal analysis, healthcare economics, managed-care analytics, contracting, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience reviewing complex financial models, pricing workbooks, proposals, rate schedules, forecasts, or supporting datasets, with the ability to identify discrepancies, unsupported assumptions, and financial risk
• 2+ years of experience using advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, lookup functions, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, scenario analysis, and structured workbook organization
• Experience supporting federal contracting officers, contracting offices, source-selection teams, or acquisition programs
• Experience with federal proposal evaluation, price analysis, acquisition support, contracting, managed care, healthcare, or health-plan pricing
• Familiarity with FAR Part 15, including clarifications, discussions, proposal revisions, final proposal revisions, and negotiations
• Experience supporting federal healthcare programs or analyzing health-plan, provider-network, reimbursement, payer, medical, dental, pharmacy, or healthcare-services pricing
• Familiarity with healthcare pricing drivers, including reimbursement, network discounts, administrative fees, utilization, unit cost, medical trend, geographic adjustments, guarantees, and risk-sharing arrangements
• Experience preparing price-analysis findings, comparison matrices, negotiation support, or fair-and-reasonable price analyses, with proficiency in analytical tools such as Power Query, Power BI, SQL, Python, R, or SAS

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and have the ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Healthcare Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline
• 4+ years of experience in pricing, financial analysis, proposal analysis, healthcare economics, managed-care analytics, contracting, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience reviewing complex financial models, pricing workbooks, proposals, rate schedules, forecasts, or supporting datasets, with the ability to identify discrepancies, unsupported assumptions, and financial risk
• 2+ years of experience using advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, lookup functions, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, scenario analysis, and structured workbook organization

Nice to Haves

• Experience supporting federal contracting officers, contracting offices, source-selection teams, or acquisition programs
• Experience with federal proposal evaluation, price analysis, acquisition support, contracting, managed care, healthcare, or health-plan pricing
• Familiarity with FAR Part 15, including clarifications, discussions, proposal revisions, final proposal revisions, and negotiations
• Experience supporting federal healthcare programs or analyzing health-plan, provider-network, reimbursement, payer, medical, dental, pharmacy, or healthcare-services pricing
• Familiarity with healthcare pricing drivers, including reimbursement, network discounts, administrative fees, utilization, unit cost, medical trend, geographic adjustments, guarantees, and risk-sharing arrangements
• Experience preparing price-analysis findings, comparison matrices, negotiation support, or fair-and-reasonable price analyses, with proficiency in analytical tools such as Power Query, Power BI, SQL, Python, R, or SAS

Benefits

• 100% remote work arrangement
• Major medical benefits, including dental and vision coverage
• 401(k)-contribution plan
• Holiday and personal time off
• Professional development training and certification benefits
• Health and wellness subsidies
• Paid time off for community service