Business Development Analyst Jobs in Alaska
Business Development Analyst jobs in Alaska are concentrated in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau, where the state's energy, government contracting, and resource extraction sectors generate consistent demand across seniority levels from entry-level research roles to senior strategy positions. Major employers with lasting Alaska footprints include BP Alaska, Doyon Limited, and the State of Alaska, all of which rely on business development analysts to evaluate contracts, partnerships, and market opportunities. The most in-demand specialties are government contracting analysis, natural resource development strategy, and federal grant opportunity assessment. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Business Analyst - Anchorage
Anchorage, AK, US, 99503
Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at HMS, a Gainwell Company carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.
Summary
The Business Analyst - Anchorage at Gainwell, supports the the assigned contract () function by helping define business and reporting requirements, document processes and data rules, validate analytical deliverables, and provide operational visibility across transformation initiatives. Working with guidance from senior team members, this position connects business, operational, data, and technical teams so information is consistently defined, understood, documented, and used to support program decisions and long-term operational outcomes.
Your role in our mission
Business Analysis and Requirements
- Work with business, operational, data, and technical stakeholders to gather, document, and maintain requirements for routine and ad hoc reporting, analytics, dashboards, and performance measurement.
- Help translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, process flows, business rules, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in requirements sessions, stakeholder interviews, and working meetings; document decisions, open questions, owners, and follow-up actions.
- Assist with reviewing requirements for completeness, consistency, traceability, and alignment with assigned contract and business operations objectives.
- Maintain requirements traceability and support controlled updates when business needs, source data, priorities, or delivery timelines change.
Reporting, Metrics, and Data Documentation
- Support the definition and documentation of KPIs, business rules, calculation logic, metric standards, populations, exclusions, targets, source data, and refresh schedules.
- Develop and maintain data dictionaries, data mappings, metric inventories, process documentation, and supporting data-governance artifacts.
- Assist with the design, validation, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of reports, dashboards, scorecards, and performance-monitoring tools.
- Analyze operational and program data to identify trends, exceptions, risks, improvement opportunities, and questions requiring additional review.
- Prepare clear summaries, tables, and visualizations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders understand findings and next steps.
- Perform data validation and reconciliation to confirm that dashboard totals, KPI results, and detail-level records align within documented tolerances.
DHCS and Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate with DHCS stakeholders, including Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), Enterprise Data and Information Management (EDIM), Program Operations (ProOps), and other business teams to gather, validate, and maintain requirements and analytical assets.
- Serve as a day-to-day point of coordination for assigned requirements, reports, documentation, testing activities, and follow-up items.
- Communicate progress, questions, risks, dependencies, and decisions needed to the appropriate project or workstream lead.
- Contribute to integrated program reporting and executive-level performance visibility by preparing accurate, traceable, and timely information.
- Support program reviews, readiness activities, audits, and performance-improvement efforts by organizing documentation and confirming supporting evidence.
Project and Workstream Support
- Support assigned projects and workstreams by maintaining work plans, milestone trackers, action logs, deliverable lists, and status information.
- Track risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions; follow up with assigned owners and escalate overdue or blocked items to the project lead.
- Assist with meeting preparation, agendas, notes, action items, and follow-through to help keep work moving on schedule.
- Monitor assigned deliverables against target dates and acceptance criteria, and communicate potential schedule or quality impacts early.
- Support scope and requirement changes by documenting the requested change, business reason, affected deliverables, dependencies, and required approvals.
- Help prepare concise project status updates covering completed work, upcoming milestones, risks, decisions, and next steps.
Testing, Implementation, and Operational Transition
- Develop or maintain test scenarios, test scripts, expected results, requirements traceability, and defect documentation under the direction of the project or reporting lead.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing activities, document results, track defects, and confirm that issues are resolved or dispositioned before release.
- Support the transition of reports, dashboards, documentation, and reporting processes from implementation teams to designated operational owners.
- Assist with training materials, user guidance, standard operating procedures, knowledge-transfer sessions, and post-implementation support.
- Confirm that required documentation, approvals, ownership, and support procedures are complete before operational handoff.
What we're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information systems, data analytics, healthcare administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- 2+ years of experience in business analysis, reporting, data analysis, operations analysis, project coordination, or a related discipline.
- Ability to gather information, document requirements, organize details, and communicate findings clearly.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
- Basic experience with data analysis, reporting, process mapping, testing, documentation, or dashboard tools through professional work, internships, coursework, or projects.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, follow-through, and willingness to learn unfamiliar business processes and technical concepts.
- Ability to work collaboratively in an Anchorage-based, cross-functional environment and manage multiple assigned priorities with guidance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience or coursework involving Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Cognos, SQL, Power Query, Python, or similar analytics tools.
- Familiarity with business-analysis methods such as requirements gathering, user stories, acceptance criteria, process mapping, traceability, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience supporting healthcare, Medicaid, government, public-sector, implementation, or transformation work.
- Familiarity with data governance concepts, including data definitions, data quality, business rules, mappings, ownership, and lineage.
- Exposure to Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma, or other project and process-improvement practices.
- Experience preparing project trackers, meeting notes, status reports, test documentation, or operational procedures.
What you should expect in this role
- This position is based in Anchorage, Alaska, and supports the assigned contract and business operations. Work hours and required availability will align with approved program and DHCS stakeholder schedules. 8a-5p Alaska time.
- Preferrence to Alaska residents
- The role may require participation in stakeholder meetings, testing, implementation activities, readiness reviews, or time-sensitive program deliverables outside the normal schedule with advance notice when practical.
- Any approved remote or hybrid work arrangement must comply with Gainwell policies and applicable connectivity, security, and availability requirements.
Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
Photo will be taken during screening for verification in all steps of the recruitment process.
The deadline to submit applications for this posting is December 30, 2026
#LI-HC1
#LI-Alaska
Please ensure you join all screenings, interviews and meetings from a quiet location with a stable internet connection.
Video is required for screenings and interviews, so please test your camera and microphone in advance.
Do not use AI tools, virtual backgrounds/filters, or visual enhancements during the interview.
The pay range for this position is $59,500.00 - $85,000.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at HMS, a Gainwell Company. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.
We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with HMS, a Gainwell Company, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about HMS, A Gainwell Technologies Company at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.
HMS, a Gainwell Company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. HMS defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.
Nearest Major Market: Alaska
Nearest Secondary Market: Anchorage
Business Analyst - Anchorage
Anchorage, AK, US, 99503
Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at HMS, a Gainwell Company carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.
Summary
The Business Analyst - Anchorage at Gainwell, supports the the assigned contract () function by helping define business and reporting requirements, document processes and data rules, validate analytical deliverables, and provide operational visibility across transformation initiatives. Working with guidance from senior team members, this position connects business, operational, data, and technical teams so information is consistently defined, understood, documented, and used to support program decisions and long-term operational outcomes.
Your role in our mission
Business Analysis and Requirements
- Work with business, operational, data, and technical stakeholders to gather, document, and maintain requirements for routine and ad hoc reporting, analytics, dashboards, and performance measurement.
- Help translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, process flows, business rules, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in requirements sessions, stakeholder interviews, and working meetings; document decisions, open questions, owners, and follow-up actions.
- Assist with reviewing requirements for completeness, consistency, traceability, and alignment with assigned contract and business operations objectives.
- Maintain requirements traceability and support controlled updates when business needs, source data, priorities, or delivery timelines change.
Reporting, Metrics, and Data Documentation
- Support the definition and documentation of KPIs, business rules, calculation logic, metric standards, populations, exclusions, targets, source data, and refresh schedules.
- Develop and maintain data dictionaries, data mappings, metric inventories, process documentation, and supporting data-governance artifacts.
- Assist with the design, validation, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of reports, dashboards, scorecards, and performance-monitoring tools.
- Analyze operational and program data to identify trends, exceptions, risks, improvement opportunities, and questions requiring additional review.
- Prepare clear summaries, tables, and visualizations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders understand findings and next steps.
- Perform data validation and reconciliation to confirm that dashboard totals, KPI results, and detail-level records align within documented tolerances.
DHCS and Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate with DHCS stakeholders, including Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), Enterprise Data and Information Management (EDIM), Program Operations (ProOps), and other business teams to gather, validate, and maintain requirements and analytical assets.
- Serve as a day-to-day point of coordination for assigned requirements, reports, documentation, testing activities, and follow-up items.
- Communicate progress, questions, risks, dependencies, and decisions needed to the appropriate project or workstream lead.
- Contribute to integrated program reporting and executive-level performance visibility by preparing accurate, traceable, and timely information.
- Support program reviews, readiness activities, audits, and performance-improvement efforts by organizing documentation and confirming supporting evidence.
Project and Workstream Support
- Support assigned projects and workstreams by maintaining work plans, milestone trackers, action logs, deliverable lists, and status information.
- Track risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions; follow up with assigned owners and escalate overdue or blocked items to the project lead.
- Assist with meeting preparation, agendas, notes, action items, and follow-through to help keep work moving on schedule.
- Monitor assigned deliverables against target dates and acceptance criteria, and communicate potential schedule or quality impacts early.
- Support scope and requirement changes by documenting the requested change, business reason, affected deliverables, dependencies, and required approvals.
- Help prepare concise project status updates covering completed work, upcoming milestones, risks, decisions, and next steps.
Testing, Implementation, and Operational Transition
- Develop or maintain test scenarios, test scripts, expected results, requirements traceability, and defect documentation under the direction of the project or reporting lead.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing activities, document results, track defects, and confirm that issues are resolved or dispositioned before release.
- Support the transition of reports, dashboards, documentation, and reporting processes from implementation teams to designated operational owners.
- Assist with training materials, user guidance, standard operating procedures, knowledge-transfer sessions, and post-implementation support.
- Confirm that required documentation, approvals, ownership, and support procedures are complete before operational handoff.
What we're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information systems, data analytics, healthcare administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- 2+ years of experience in business analysis, reporting, data analysis, operations analysis, project coordination, or a related discipline.
- Ability to gather information, document requirements, organize details, and communicate findings clearly.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
- Basic experience with data analysis, reporting, process mapping, testing, documentation, or dashboard tools through professional work, internships, coursework, or projects.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, follow-through, and willingness to learn unfamiliar business processes and technical concepts.
- Ability to work collaboratively in an Anchorage-based, cross-functional environment and manage multiple assigned priorities with guidance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience or coursework involving Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Cognos, SQL, Power Query, Python, or similar analytics tools.
- Familiarity with business-analysis methods such as requirements gathering, user stories, acceptance criteria, process mapping, traceability, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience supporting healthcare, Medicaid, government, public-sector, implementation, or transformation work.
- Familiarity with data governance concepts, including data definitions, data quality, business rules, mappings, ownership, and lineage.
- Exposure to Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma, or other project and process-improvement practices.
- Experience preparing project trackers, meeting notes, status reports, test documentation, or operational procedures.
What you should expect in this role
- This position is based in Anchorage, Alaska, and supports the assigned contract and business operations. Work hours and required availability will align with approved program and DHCS stakeholder schedules. 8a-5p Alaska time.
- Preferrence to Alaska residents
- The role may require participation in stakeholder meetings, testing, implementation activities, readiness reviews, or time-sensitive program deliverables outside the normal schedule with advance notice when practical.
- Any approved remote or hybrid work arrangement must comply with Gainwell policies and applicable connectivity, security, and availability requirements.
Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
Photo will be taken during screening for verification in all steps of the recruitment process.
The deadline to submit applications for this posting is December 30, 2026
#LI-HC1
#LI-Alaska
Please ensure you join all screenings, interviews and meetings from a quiet location with a stable internet connection.
Video is required for screenings and interviews, so please test your camera and microphone in advance.
Do not use AI tools, virtual backgrounds/filters, or visual enhancements during the interview.
The pay range for this position is $59,500.00 - $85,000.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at HMS, a Gainwell Company. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.
We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with HMS, a Gainwell Company, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about HMS, A Gainwell Technologies Company at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.
HMS, a Gainwell Company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. HMS defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.
Nearest Major Market: Alaska
Nearest Secondary Market: Anchorage
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Business Development Analyst Job Market in Alaska
A snapshot from current Alaska openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Human Resources
- Science & Research
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Alaska Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in business development analyst jobs across Alaska.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, or a related field
- Experience analyzing market data and preparing business development recommendations
- Proficiency in CRM platforms and data analysis tools such as Excel or Tableau
- Familiarity with government contracting processes and federal procurement regulations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for client-facing presentations
- Ability to work across cross-functional teams in remote or field-based Alaska environments
Business Development Analyst Jobs in Alaska: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a business development analyst in Alaska?
Business development analysts in Alaska do not require a state-issued license, but employers consistently expect a bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, or a closely related field. Because Alaska's economy is shaped by energy, government contracting, and Native corporation activity, candidates who build familiarity with federal procurement rules, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act framework, or natural resource project finance stand out to local hiring managers. A relevant internship with a state agency or regional corporation strengthens an application considerably.
Which companies hire business development analysts in Alaska?
Companies currently hiring business development analysts in Alaska include First National Bank Alaska, HDR, and WSP, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Alaska-based Native corporations, state government agencies, and energy operators represent some of the most consistent long-term sources of these openings in the state.
Which Alaska cities have the most business development analyst jobs?
Anchorage, Alaska, and Soldotna have the most business development analyst openings in Alaska. Anchorage dominates because it is home to the state's largest corporate offices, federal agency regional headquarters, and Alaska Native corporation headquarters, while Fairbanks and Juneau contribute openings through their roles as regional economic and government centers, respectively.
Are there remote business development analyst jobs in Alaska?
Yes, and more than most fields, because business development analysis is fundamentally a desk-based and analytical role that translates well to remote work. About 60% of business development analyst openings tied to Alaska are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting employer flexibility for research, proposal writing, and market analysis tasks that do not require a physical presence.
How can I get hired as a business development analyst in Alaska with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is applying for business development coordinator or market research associate roles at Alaska Native corporations such as Doyon Limited, Ahtna, or NANA Regional Corporation, which regularly bring in early-career candidates and provide structured exposure to proposal development and contract analysis. Lateral moves from project coordinator, grants analyst, or procurement assistant positions are common. Completing a Google Data Analytics or similar certificate and building a portfolio of sample market analyses specific to Alaska industries gives candidates a concrete edge.
Where can I find and apply to business development analyst jobs in Alaska?
You can find and apply to business development analyst jobs in Alaska on Migrate Mate, which lists current Alaska openings in one place. Search the roles that match your background and apply directly to the ones that fit your experience and target location.
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