Sr. Decision Scientist

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

Join this dynamic and growing team! CVS Healthspire Life Sciences Solutions Real-World Evidence organization offers analytical and advisory services that meet the market and clinical challenges faced by pharmaceutical, biotech, and device companies. Our services use real world data, advanced technologies, and professional know-how to illuminate therapeutic and economic value. We offer collaborative resources across CVS to promote forward-looking research into real-world outcomes and the realities of therapeutic use in genuine clinical settings. We also collaborate with internal business partners, government agencies and academic institutions to conduct public health, epidemiology, RWE, Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) and safety surveillance studies by leveraging the rich and extensive data assets within CVS.

We are seeking a skilled and research driven Sr. Decision Scientist to lead and support strategic, data-driven initiatives that enhance clinical trial recruitment. In this role, you will apply your analytical expertise and healthcare data experience to support recruitment and real-world evidence studies. You will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, lead projects, and translate data into solutions that drive the success of our clinical trial business.

Fundamental Components/Job Description:

• Lead development and implementation for clinical trial recruitment campaigns.
• Collaborate with business partners, clients, and internal stakeholders to understand research objectives and deliver on project goals.
• Identify gaps in recruitment operations and design scalable, and compliant solutions.
• Design and manage cross-functional initiatives, coordinating between clinical teams, data engineering, operations, and external partners.
• Develop comprehensive recruitment strategies for each clinical trial, including identification of target populations and selection of recruitment channels.
• Utilize healthcare data (claims, EMR/EHR, pharmacy) to identify eligible populations and build precision recruitment strategies.
• Analyze and extract insights using SQL and Python (or SAS), working with large-scale datasets stored in cloud and other data environments.
• Generate patient counts to support project feasibility assessments.

Required Qualifications

• 5 + years of strong technical proficiency in SQL and Python (or SAS) for data extraction, cleaning, analysis, and visualization.
• 3 + years of deep experience working with claims data, EMR/EHR data, and pharmacy data in healthcare or clinical research settings.
• 2 + years of hands-on experience with Google BigQuery or equivalent cloud data platforms.
• 2+ years of extensive experience in Data visualization and dashboard creating using Tableau, PowerBI etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in clinical trial recruitment, with a demonstrated ability to implement effective, data-driven enrollment strategies.
• Experience in life sciences, CRO, or healthcare analytics organizations.
• Proficiency with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey technical and analytical findings to non-technical stakeholders.

Education

• Bachelor's degree, master's degree preferred. May consider comparable work experience.

Business Overview:

At CVS Health, we are joined in a common purpose: helping people on their path to better health.  We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart. 

We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.  We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status or on any other basis or characteristic prohibit