Lead Data Scientist

 

Lead Data Scientist - Innovation

 

Location: South Sioux City, NE (on-site)

This position is located at our corporate office in South Sioux City, NE, and offers relocation to the Siouxland area. 

 

As the leader in commercial trucking insurance, Great West Casualty thrives on data‑driven insights, sound judgment, and innovations that protect our customers and strengthen our competitive advantage. We are looking for a Lead Data Scientist within our Innovation Department to help shape the future of our business. The successful candidate will bring strategic thinking, exceptional analytical and consultative skills, and a depth of experience solving complex business problems across diverse functional domains at scale.

 

Why Join Us:

You will have the opportunity to influence strategy at one of the most respected names in trucking insurance—working with mission‑driven leaders who value integrity, collaboration, and innovation that makes a real‑world impact.

 

In this newly created role, you will:

• Collaborate with senior executives to envision future business directions.
• Serve as the primary investigator for significant market opportunities and emerging threats.
• Design and execute studies to drive strategic business innovation and answer complex business questions.
• Translate complex data and analytical results into clear, actionable insights for executive and business audiences.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, translating complex technical results into actionable executive insights and educating staff on emerging technologies.
• Imagine, invent, prototype, and socialize innovative applications of AI/GenAI or other technologies that create new products, open new markets, reduce financial risk, or deliver superior service to our customers or stakeholders.
• Mentor other data scientists and help mature the practice of data science within the company.

What We Are Looking For:

• PhD with 5+ years combined experience in data science and/or management consulting; or, MBA or Master's degree in a discipline requiring quantitative methods, and 10+ years combined experience in data science and/or management consulting. Insurance experience is a plus.
• Proven experience leading and executing disruptive product, market, customer, process, logistics, or technology assessment studies at scale that resulted in positive ROI.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to set a level of methodological rigor appropriate to study goals.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively at every level within the organization, with collaborating universities and faculty, and vendor partners.
• Highly proficient in data science methods and practice, especially in managing financial risk.
• Very strong writing, visual creation, and presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of data transformation, data visualization, reporting, and statistical tools and programming languages (e.g., SQL, R, Python, Julia, Qlik, Tableau, Snowflake, etc.)

Your Future Starts Here: Benefits That Support Your Lifestyle

• Compensation includes a salary commensurate with experience.
• Generous paid time off and paid company holiday schedule.
• Comprehensive benefits from day one.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long-Term Disability, Company Match 401(k), HSA, FSA.
• Paternal Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility and Family Planning Assistance, Pet Insurance, Retail Discount Programs.
• Community volunteer opportunities.
• Support of healthy lifestyles through a wellness program including gym subsidies.
• Scholarships for dependents of Great West employees.
• Tuition reimbursement for current employees.
• Company paid continuing education and monetary awards for professional development.

Who we are:

For over 65 years, Great West Casualty Company has provided premier insurance products and services to thousands of truck drivers and trucking companies across America. We have offi