Director of Data Science & Forecasting for Underwriting

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Bonus eligibility

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Data Science for Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Insights in Underwriting. You will lead a 10+ person team supporting P&L forecasting, analytics validation, and reporting solutions within underwriting and sales decision processes.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Underwriting, Finance, and Actuarial to embed analytics into core workflows, define OKRs, and deliver executive-ready insights across multiple analytic platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of analytics, decision science, BI, financial analysis, QA, or data validation.
• 5+ years leading large analytical teams and developing people leaders.
• Expertise in analytical validation, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and financial validation.
• Strong ability to synthesize data and explain business outcomes.
• Experience with self-service reporting and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the data science and analytics strategy for underwriting products from framing to deployment.
• Design predictive and scenario-based analytics for underwriting, pricing, and risk decisions.
• Develop time-series/regression/tree-based models for volume, P&L, and risk projections.
• Lead machine learning and statistical modeling to improve underwriting accuracy and efficiency.
• Embed analytics into core product workflows with cross-functional teams.
• Define metrics and OKRs; build scalable reporting frameworks and dashboards.
• Translate insights into actionable narratives for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Coach a team of 10+ data scientists and validation professionals.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Executive presentation

Self-service reporting

Analytical validation

Anomaly detection

Team leadership

Communication

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Data Science for Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Insights in Underwriting. You will lead a 10+ person team supporting P&L forecasting, analytics validation, and reporting solutions within underwriting and sales decision processes.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Underwriting, Finance, and Actuarial to embed analytics into core workflows, define OKRs, and deliver executive-ready insights across multiple analytic platforms.