Senior Director, Health Economics & Actuarial Analytics

About Foodsmart: Foodsmart is the leading Foodcare platform in the U. S. , built to deliver nutrition-driven healthcare at scale. Powered by a national network of Registered Dietitians, Foodsmart combines personalized clinical nutrition care, behavior change tools, and food benefits to improve member health outcomes while lowering healthcare costs. Our platform is designed to foster healthier food choices, drive lasting behavior change, and deliver sustainable health outcomes. Through our highly personalized, digital platform, we guide more than 3 million members—including those in employer-sponsored health plans, regional and national Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, and commercial insurers—on a tailored journey to eating well while saving time and money. Foodsmart seamlessly integrates dietary assessments and nutrition counseling with online food ordering and cost-effective meal planning for the entire family, optimizing ingredients both at home and on the go. We partner with national and regional retailers across the U. S. , many of whom accept SNAP/EBT, making healthier food more accessible. Additionally, we assist members with SNAP enrollment and management, providing tangible access to nutritious food. In 2024, Foodsmart secured a $200 million investment from TPG’s Rise Fund, which supports entrepreneurs dedicated to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This investment helps us expand our reach, particularly to low-income workers who are disproportionately affected by diet-related diseases. At Foodsmart, our mission is to make nutritious food accessible and affordable for everyone, regardless of economic status.

We are committed to a set of core values that shape our culture and work environment: Customer First - You start with the member and work backwards. Make It Happen - You act with urgency, use data, and hold high standards. One Team - You collaborate with respect and commit as a group. Whether you're a dietitian, a commercial leader, or a technologist, working at Foodsmart means being part of a team that is passionate, supportive, and driven by a shared purpose. Join us in transforming the way people access and enjoy healthy food. About the Role: Foodsmart’s value proposition rests on a claim: we improve outcomes for the members who need it most, and we save payers real money doing it. We’re looking for a Senior Director of Clinical Intelligence who can make that claim airtight: rigorous enough to hold up against a payer’s own actuarial team, and clear enough to become the evidence the rest of the company builds on. This is the analytical center of gravity for Foodsmart’s ROI and clinical outcomes story: the research, the methodology, and the evidence base that everything else gets built on. It’s also our most senior data science leadership role, reporting directly to the VP of Analytics & Data Science. You’ll lead a small team while staying deeply hands-on with the research and methodology yourself, and you’ll be expected to use AI as a genuine force multiplier, to move faster, go deeper, and extend your reach well beyond what the team size alone would suggest. You’ll be the voice Foodsmart puts in the room when the conversation turns to outcomes and value. This isn’t the role that carries our overall client narrative, that lives with our go-to-market and client teams, but on research and ROI specifically, you’re the credible technical authority, whether that’s in front of a payer’s actuarial team, an external research partner, or our own leadership. We’re looking for someone who has done this exact work before, repeatedly: a health economist or actuary with deep, hands-on research experience, not someone building this skill set for the first time. The technical bar here is causal inference and ROI methodology, not data engineering.