CVS Health

Principal Decision Scientist, Strategy & Innovation

CVS Health$144K — $288K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Decision Science or related quantitative field, managing complex analytical problems.
  • Proficiency in SQL and strong Python skills for large dataset analysis and statistical modeling.
  • Expertise in applied statistics, including hypothesis testing and predictive modeling.
  • Experience with causal inference and impact measurement for evaluating interventions and business decisions.
  • Familiarity with healthcare data including claims, enrollment, and utilization datasets.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders through analytical insights.
  • Experience with cloud data platforms like Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

  • Lead deep statistical studies to validate clinical outcomes and support service enhancements.
  • Design and maintain causal inference studies to quantify member-level outcomes.
  • Conduct new product and partnership sizings using internal and external data.
  • Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical frameworks with strategic leaders.
  • Champion analytics best practices across the organization to enhance quality and repeatability.
  • Mentor analytics talent by serving as a technical thought partner within the company.
  • Present findings directly to Signify's executive leadership, building credibility and influence.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid time off and wellness programs for well-being support.
  • Retirement savings options to help secure financial future.
  • Resources aimed at enhancing physical, emotional, and financial well-being of employees and families.
Full Job Description
The Signify Health Strategy & Innovation team is responsible for shaping the company's long-term strategy, discovering opportunities to accelerate growth, and identifying and testing net new offerings or capabilities. The team serves in an advisory capacity to Signify's Executive Leadership Team (ELT) - partnering closely with leaders to evaluate challenges and opportunities, facilitate decision-making, and execute early-stage proofs of concept.

The Principal Decision Scientist is the team's first dedicated quantitative hire to bring additional rigor to strategy as an individual contributor who designs and builds the causal inference studies and sizing analyses that underpin Signify's highest-visibility strategic recommendations.

Work falls into two buckets: (i) leading deep statistical studies to prove member outcomes and (ii) providing quantitative sizing to guide decisions on new growth opportunities. The individual will also (iii) be responsible to collaborate across Signify's business functions, including with other data professionals to standardize and improve technical fundamentals, documentation, code reviews, data models, and quality controls.

Ideal candidates are data-driven, inquisitive, autonomous, and entrepreneurial thinkers who can collaborate effectively across functions and with executive leadership.

Position Responsibilities

(i) Clinical Evidence Generation & Member Insights
  • Extract knowledge and insights from data in order to investigate complex business problems through a range of data preparation, modeling, analysis and/or visualization techniques, including predictive analysis, business intelligence, pattern recognition, operational effectiveness and/or economic forecasting
  • Design, build, and maintain causal inference studies that quantify the member-level clinical outcomes of the in-home health evaluation, supporting workflow and service enhancements
  • Build and validate proof of concepts to identify rich, incremental member insights, leveraging health plan data combined with Signify's in-home insights. Potential approaches include statistical analysis, machine learning, and other applied methods

(ii) Analytic Support of Strategic and Growth Evaluations
  • Translate ambiguous, open-ended business questions into structured analytical approaches, partnering with strategy and business function leaders
  • Conduct new product and partnership opportunity sizings by analyzing Signify's internal operational and clinical data, supplemented by publicly available data where needed

(iii) Analytic Best Practices and Cross-Company Collaboration
  • Champion analytics best practices, e.g. engineering standards, version control, code review, documented pipelines, common data sources, with other analytic leaders within Signify to improve quality, repeatability, and ability to build off each other's work
  • Act as a technical thought partner and mentor to analytics talent across the organization
  • Bring a creative, structured approach to pressure-testing methodology and hypotheses across the full active portfolio, not only assigned workstreams
  • Present analysis directly to Signify's ELT and executive leadership, as workstream lead or in support of a strategy lead, building credibility and influence at the executive level

Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in Decision Science, Data Science, Advanced Analytics, or a related quantitative field, with ownership of complex analytical problems from problem definition through actionable recommendations.
  • Expert SQL and strong Python skills, with experience analyzing large, complex datasets and applying statistical analysis, modeling, automation, and visualization.
  • Strong applied statistics and advanced analytics expertise, including hypothesis testing, regression, experimental design/A-B testing, predictive modeling, and related quantitative methods.
  • Demonstrated experience with causal inference and impact measurement to evaluate programs, interventions, strategies, or business decisions.
  • Healthcare/payer data expertise, including hands-on experience with claims, enrollment, utilization, laboratory, SDOH, or other member-level healthcare datasets.
  • Strong business and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, actionable recommendations, and influence stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
  • Experience with Snowflake and/or modern cloud data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Working knowledge of data engineering and scalable analytical datasets, including ETL/ELT and relational or NoSQL databases.
  • Experience establishing or improving analytics/Decision Science best practices and developing reusable analytical assets.
  • Demonstrated executive presence and strong written communication, with the ability to clearly communicate complex analysis to senior and non-technical audiences.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Familiarity with CMS risk adjustment and Stars quality methodologies.
  • Experience building, validating, or deploying machine learning models or proof-of-concepts, including predictive risk models, member insight/segmentation models, or other decision-support applications.
  • Experience using machine learning and predictive modeling in combination with causal inference and other analytical methods to inform business decisions.
  • Experience working with unstructured clinical and/or provider data.
  • Experience applying decision science to complex healthcare, payer, provider, or healthcare operations problems.
  • Experience operating in highly ambiguous environments and independently defining the analytical strategy for novel or poorly defined business problems.


Education
  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field required (statistics, economics, applied mathematics, data science, computer science, or related)
  • Master's degree in a quantitative field strongly preferred


Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company's equity award program.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/21/2026

About CVS Health

Omnicare provides comprehensive pharmaceutical services to patients and providers across the United States. As the market-leader in professional pharmacy, related consulting and data management services for skilled nursing, assisted living and other chronic care settings, Omnicare leverages its unparalleled clinical insight into the geriatric market along with some of the industry's most innovative technological capabilities to the benefit of its long-term care customers. Omnicare also provides key commercialization services for the bio-pharmaceutical industry through its Specialty Care Group.

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Joining CVS Health presents a unique opportunity to advance your career in a company where innovation, leadership, and growth go hand in hand. As a leader in the healthcare industry, CVS Health is more than just a pharmacy. We are a team of professionals dedicated to improving lives and optimizing health outcomes.

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Size
300,000 employees
Market Cap
$122 billion
Industry
Net Income
$7.1 billion
Founded
1963
5 Year Trend
+10.5%
Revenue
$268.7 billion
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