Senior Data Scientist

Company Overview

Recognized as a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Top Workplace for 14 consecutive years, including three years of being honored as number one! Join us at West Bend, where we believe that our associates are our greatest asset. We hire talented individuals who are conscientious, dedicated, customer focused, and able to build lasting relationships. We create and maintain an environment where you feel a sense of belonging and appreciation. Your diversity of thought, experience, and knowledge are valued. We’re committed to fostering a welcoming culture, offering you opportunities for meaningful work and professional growth. More than a workplace, we celebrate our successes and take pride in serving our communities.

Job Summary

Join our expanding data science team at West Bend and directly impact the profitability of a leading P&C insurer. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll develop and deploy cutting-edge predictive models for Pricing, Underwriting and Claims, leveraging a modern cloud stack (Databricks, Snowflake, Azure). Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business and utilize your expertise in Python, R, SQL and other modern modeling tools to drive strategic decisions and shape the future of insurance analytics. This is your chance to lead high-impact initiatives and grow your career in a dynamic, data-driven environment.

This position offers a hybrid work schedule.  Candidates who are located within 50 miles of a West Bend office location will work a hybrid schedule (3 days in office) for collaboration days, team meetings or other in-person events.  The position can be based in West Bend, Madison or Appleton.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Responsible for analysis and modeling of P&C insurance business problems and discovering business insights using statistical, algorithmic, data-mining and visualization techniques. Contributes to organizational performance by providing senior leadership with insights and analysis for decision making. This includes developing and applying analytics, algorithms, or models to key business metrics with the goal of improving pricing accuracy, underwriting/claim efficiency, or answering other business questions.  Translating business needs into analytics/reporting requirements to support executive decisions and workflows with required information. Document, present, and support predictive modeling work in a clear manner for business users or regulators to follow. Understands and prioritizes data and information requirements in the development of unique and ad-hoc analytical data. Identifies available internal and external data sources and develops and executes solutions to meet business needs. Collaborates with other business functions to turn high-level concepts into practical model solutions. Distributes best practices to analytics and product teams and provides consultations for their data-projects. Works with vendors to review/evaluate external data and models for potential use.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• 6 years advanced analytics/predictive modeling experience with minimum 2 years in P&C insurance context.
• 3 years property/casualty insurance industry experience
• Familiarity with property and casualty insurance claim and underwriting data systems and processes
• Mastery of at least two statistical modeling languages (Python, R,  SAS, Matlab, and etc.)
• Familiarity with MLOps with a machine learning platform (such as Akur8, Databricks, Dataiku, H2O, Amazon SageMaker etc)
• Experience manipulating large data sets, structured or unstructured, and cloud data using SQL, Spark, Python, or other scripting languages.
• Oral and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Inquisitive and self-motivated

Preferred Education and Training

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field
• P&C Insurance credential such as ACAS, FCAS, CSPA, and CPCU etc.

Benefits

West Bend offers a comprehensive benefit plan including but not limited to:   

• Medical & Prescription Insurance  

• Health Savings Account  

• Dental Insurance  

• Vision Insurance  

• Short and Long Term Disability  

• Flexible Spending Accounts  

• Life and Accidental Death & Disability   

• Accident and Critical Illness Insurance  

• Employee Assistance Program  

• 401(k) Plan with Company Match  

• Pet Insurance  

• Paid Time Off. Standard first year PTO is 17 days, pro-rated based on month of hire. Enhanced PTO may be available for experienced candidates 

• Bonus eligible based on performance  

• West Bend will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act for Colorado employees, in accordance with its plans and policies.