Data Science Associate

Wellmark, Inc.; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Accommodations available for disabilities

Job summary

Wellmark, Inc., based in Iowa, is seeking a candidate for a data analysis role requiring a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline. The role involves gathering data, analyzing business outcomes, and communicating findings to stakeholders effectively.

The ideal candidate should have less than 1-year experience in data analysis, strong statistical knowledge, and effective time management skills. The position supports corporate process improvement initiatives and offers the chance to manage multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative fields like statistics or computer science.
• Less than 1-year experience in data analysis including statistics.
• Strong knowledge of data visualizations and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Conduct discovery sessions to gather business requirements.
• Profile and prepare data for analysis.
• Create reports and documentation on data analysis.

Skills

Data analysis

Statistical knowledge

Effective communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

SQL dialects

Statistical programming languages

Business intelligence platforms

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• a. Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan.
• b. Research and gather appropriate data from various sources. Source, extract, assemble, collate, and consolidate data needs for the business.
• c. Profile and prepare data for analysis.
• d. Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes, using tables, graphs, and charts, as well as algorithms, forecasts, and trends.
• e. Interpret results, identify key findings to quantify business value.
• f. Develop a narrative to summarize and convey findings to stakeholders. Make recommendations based on findings.
• g. Create, update, and maintain a production schedule for reporting and ensure reports and presentations are completed on schedule.
• h. Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives, meeting aggressive timeframes.
• i. Collaborate with peers to identify reporting objectives and develop reports and analyses that meet their need and drive Wellmark’s value proposition for stakeholders.
• j. Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidation, aggregation, and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc.
• k. Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources.
• l. Other duties as assigned.

Required

• For consideration, you must meet one of the following educational/technical requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, or economics.
• Less than 1-year hands‑on experience with specific experience in data or statistical analysis, including data collection, joins, analysis, statistics and/or data presentation. Specific exposure with hands‑on data analysis of databases and files using SQL dialects and statistical programming languages.
• Strong formulas and data visualizations knowledge.
• Exposure to business intelligence or analysis platforms.
• Naturally curious and ability to drive business decisions and solutions.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex information.
• Proactive, self‑starter and can manage priorities through effective time management skills.

Preferred

• Master’s degree.
• Experience working with unstructured data sets.
• Experience developing project roadmaps and timelines.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and support the recruitment, hiring, training, and promotion of individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact us at [e-mail].

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