Director, Decision Science: Forecasting & Validation

CVS Health; Arkansas; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Decision Science to shape forecasting accuracy and analytical validation for financial products within underwriting. You will lead a team of decision scientists and analysts, setting strategy for P&L validation, anomaly detection, and self-service reporting while partnering with finance and business stakeholders.

This role emphasizes rigorous data analysis, clear executive communication, and the delivery of reliable insights across complex datasets and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in analytics, decision science, business intelligence, financial analysis, quality assurance, or data validation.
• 5+ years leading large analytical teams and developing people leaders.
• Expertise in analytical validation, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, business impact assessment, and financial validation.
• Strong ability to analyze and synthesize both quantitative and qualitative data to generate insights and explain business outcomes.
• Experience developing self-service reporting solutions and communicating insights from reports and dashboards.
• Advanced SQL and data analysis skills.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish enterprise strategy for analytical validation across underwriting ecosystem.
• Validate outcomes and financial impact of data, logic, configuration, and application changes.
• Lead P&L validation, forecasting validation, and financial impact assessments.
• Develop KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to measure product quality and financial results.
• Lead a high-performing team of decision scientists, analysts and validation professionals.
• Provide executive-level communication, reporting, and strategic recommendations.

Skills

Analytical leadership

SQL & data analysis

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Self-service reporting

Education

Advanced degree in Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Operations Research, Data Science

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Decision Science to shape forecasting accuracy and analytical validation for financial products within underwriting. You will lead a team of decision scientists and analysts, setting strategy for P&L validation, anomaly detection, and self-service reporting while partnering with finance and business stakeholders.

This role emphasizes rigorous data analysis, clear executive communication, and the delivery of reliable insights across complex datasets and