Data Science Leader — Strategy, Mentorship & Impact

Chamberlain Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term incentive plan

Comprehensive benefits package

401k contribution

Job summary

Chamberlain Group is seeking a senior leader for IT Advanced Analytics and Data to build strong partnerships with business leaders, understand strategic KPIs, and share ownership for achieving goals. You will recruit, mentor, and guide a team of high‑caliber data scientists to advance analytics capabilities.

You will drive the data science methodology, engage with stakeholders at all levels, and champion adoption of insights and predictive models to create measurable business impact across CG.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, econometrics, engineering, or other quantitative field.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience; 2+ years directly managing data scientists.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with business leaders and truly understand their strategy, KPIs for success, with shared ownership for reaching goals.
• Lead, manage, and coach highly technical data scientists, including identifying, recruiting, and onboarding new talent.
• Drive development and execution of the data science methodology and practices strategy.
• Lead technical engagements with business unit and function stakeholders, as well as senior leaders.
• Be a catalyst for advanced analytics and data science across Chamberlain Group.
• Educate business users on advanced analytical concepts.
• Work with various teams to drive adoption of insights, models, and outputs to realize incremental impact.
• Identify and apply innovative analytical techniques to achieve business objectives.
• Lead and engage in design, development, and deployment of advanced analytics models including predictive and prescriptive outputs.
• Identify and manage relationships with outside data science resources and vendors.

Skills

Data science leadership

Team management

Advanced analytics

Machine learning

Forecasting

Python

R

SQL

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science / statistics / quantitative field

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Databricks

Azure

SQL databases

Job description

Chamberlain Group is seeking a senior leader for IT Advanced Analytics and Data to build strong partnerships with business leaders, understand strategic KPIs, and share ownership for achieving goals. You will recruit, mentor, and guide a team of high‑caliber data scientists to advance analytics capabilities.

You will drive the data science methodology, engage with stakeholders at all levels, and champion adoption of insights and predictive models to create measurable business impact across CG.