Application Specialist

at Press Ganey Associates LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Company Description
PG Forsta is the leading experience measurement, data analytics, and insights provider for complex industries-a status we earned over decades of deep partnership with clients to help them understand and meet the needs of their key stakeholders. Our earliest roots are in U.S. healthcare -perhaps the most complex of all industries. Today we serve clients around the globe in every industry to help them improve the Human Experiences at the heart of their business. We serve our clients through an unparalleled offering that combines technology, data, and expertise to enable them to pinpoint and prioritize opportunities, accelerate improvement efforts and build lifetime loyalty among their customers and employees.
Like all great companies, our success is a function of our people and our culture. Our employees have world-class talent, a collaborative work ethic, and a passion for the work that have earned us trusted advisor status among the world's most recognized brands. As a member of the team, you will help us create value for our clients, you will make us better through your contribution to the work and your voice in the process. Ours is a path of learning and continuous improvement; team efforts chart the course for corporate success.

Mission
We empower organizations to deliver the best experiences. With industry expertise and technology, we turn data into insights that drive innovation and action.
We partner clients to gather the voice of consumers and the workforce to gain insights that address unmet needs. Through the use of integrated data, advanced analytics and strategic advisory services, we are helping clients transform their organizations to deliver high quality services and lifetime loyalty.
Values
Energize the customer relationship: Our clients are our partners. We make their goals our own, working side by side to turn challenges into solutions.
Success starts with me: Personal ownership fuels collective success. We each play our part and empower our teammates to do the same.
Commit to learning: Every win is a springboard. Every hurdle is a lesson. We use each experience as an opportunity to grow.
Dare to innovate: We challenge the status quo with creativity and innovation as our true north.
Better together: We check our egos at the door. We work together, so we win together.

Job Description
The Application Specialist is a client facing position. The Specialist operates as a member of a team to implement, configure, and maintain client data ingress, surveying and reporting throughout the lifecycle of the client's partnership with Press Ganey. With knowledge in PG applications and business procedures, they are responsible for gathering client specific requirements to configure platforms for surveying.
The Application Specialist should feel comfortable explaining complex topics and conceptualizing how various solutions work in a variety of use cases. The right candidate for this role will have an analytical approach and be able to match solutions for unique client business needs. This role requires a client centric focus to deliver prompt issue resolution, meet implementation timelines, target dates and internal service level agreements.
Duties and Responsibilities
Work within the Application Support team to address client data, surveying, and reporting requests
Facilitate the integration of business owner needs, and translate operational needs and workflow into system specifications and configuration requirements
Capture client requirements to appropriately configure products to meet client needs
Offer clients best practice workflow design and associated application configurations
Use tools to configure, test and validate all patient experience products
Responsible for client support throughout the implementation or on-going support cycle
Prioritize workload and manage timelines to meet client target dates for projects and implementations
Serve as first level support to triage, troubleshoot and find the right expert to quickly resolve client requests
Troubleshoot and resolve any issues while appropriately escalating to next level support or manager as needed
Qualifications
1-2 years of relevant experience in information technology, health care, client facing project management or operations role
Experience working at or working with health systems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
Excellent analytical, organization and problem-solving skills
Strong attention to detail
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Press Ganey Associates, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and well committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.