Lead Director, Data Science & Forecasting for Underwriting

CVS Health; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus & equity programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a transformative Lead Director of Data Science to align underwriting analytics with business strategy. You will guide a 10+ person team to deliver forecasting, P&L accuracy, and decision-support insights across underwriting, pricing, and risk functions.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Leadership to embed analytics into core workflows, drive measurable impact, and communicate complex results clearly to executives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in analytics, decision science, business intelligence, financial analysis, quality assurance, or data validation.
• 5+ years of experience 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.
• Proven experience validating business outcomes and financial results using large-scale datasets.
• Advanced SQL and data analysis skills.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the data science and analytics strategy for underwriting transformation software products, from problem framing through production deployment.
• Design and operationalize predictive, and scenario-based analytical capabilities supporting underwriting, pricing, and risk decisions.
• Time-series, advance regression, tree based modeling and forecasting for volume, financial, and risk projections.
• Machine learning and statistical modeling to improve underwriting accuracy and efficiency.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to embed analytics and reporting into core product workflows.
• Define metrics, reporting, and OKRs; build scalable dashboards for performance and impact.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate insights into actionable business decisions.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Leadership

Machine learning

Forecasting

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a transformative Lead Director of Data Science to align underwriting analytics with business strategy. You will guide a 10+ person team to deliver forecasting, P&L accuracy, and decision-support insights across underwriting, pricing, and risk functions.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Leadership to embed analytics into core workflows, drive measurable impact, and communicate complex results clearly to executives.