Lead Data Scientist - ML - Military Veterans
at CVS Health
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Position Summary
Are you interested in utilizing your advanced analytics skills to contribute to patient safety and dispensing monitoring for 1.6 billion annual prescriptions? The CVS team is currently seeking a skilled Senior Data Scientist to support pharmacy analytics. They will use their knowledge in Python scripting and SQL to investigate problems, detect patterns, and recommend solutions.
By joining us, you will be part of a journey to develop descriptive and predictive techniques that enhance the patient, prescriber, and pharmacist experience through comprehensive analytics and insights. This includes leveraging predictive and prescriptive insights from clustering, anomaly detection, and risk scoring techniques. Additionally, you will apply analytics to optimize tradeoffs and create scenario models to address various business inquiries. The candidate will collaborate with business leaders and partners to inform the analytics approach, identify quick wins, and enable step changes over time. They must be able to effectively influence and communicate with a non-technical audience and promote adoption to drive sustainable impact.
Position Description:
Utilize analytics expertise to collaborate with key leaders in identifying new use cases that align with ambitious goals in CVS pharmacy.
Gather business requirements from multiple stakeholders and lead the analysis of extensive data to develop strategies and tactics for solving complex problems and optimizing tradeoffs.
Lead initiatives focused on asset protection analytics, employing both descriptive and predictive techniques.
Create and deliver presentations that communicate insights derived from analytics, along with recommendations and plans for moving forward, to a diverse range of audiences including internal stakeholders and senior leadership.
Promote knowledge sharing and provide input on the technology stack.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience in descriptive and predictive analytics including gathering requirements to meet data and technology pre-requisites
Strategic mindset and experience leading highly technical initiatives focused on deploying data and analytics solutions in healthcare
Ability to engage with stakeholders, communicate insights and promote adoption of analytics insights
Deep expertise with data modeling/analytics in SQL and Python
Highly motivated to work in a fast-paced environment and enable sustainable impact in front store operations
Preferred Qualifications
First hand experience in building models to generate predictive and prescriptive insights
Familiarity with the common Python libraries used in machine learning projects
Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., Snowflake.), including querying/mining large datasets and deploying projects on cloud systems.
Familiarity with working in an Agile framework.
Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Economics, Physics, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Master’s degree or PhD preferred
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$130,295.00 - $284,280.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Wellesley, MA
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