Head of Underwriting Data Science & Forecasting

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Equity award program

Comprehensive health benefits

Retirement savings options

Job summary

CVS Health in the United States seeks a Lead Director, Data Scientist for Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Insights in Underwriting. You will lead a team of 10+ data scientists driving P&L forecasting, underwriting risk and decision support with analytics and reporting.

This role blends financial product leadership with advanced analytics, partnering with Product and Engineering to embed insights into core workflows and deliver executive-ready metrics and dashboards.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of analytics, BI, or data validation experience.
• 5+ years leading large analytical teams and developing people leaders.
• Expertise in validation, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and financial validation.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to drive insights.
• Proven experience building self-service reporting and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the data science and analytics strategy for underwriting transformation software.
• Design predictive and scenario-based analytical capabilities for underwriting, pricing, and risk decisions.
• Time-series, regression, and forecasting for volume, financial, and risk projections.
• Develop ML and statistical models to improve underwriting accuracy and efficiency.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to embed analytics into core workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Executive presentation skills

Communication

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

CVS Health in the United States seeks a Lead Director, Data Scientist for Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Insights in Underwriting. You will lead a team of 10+ data scientists driving P&L forecasting, underwriting risk and decision support with analytics and reporting.

This role blends financial product leadership with advanced analytics, partnering with Product and Engineering to embed insights into core workflows and deliver executive-ready metrics and dashboards.