Senior Data Scientist

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Humana’s Marketing Organization is seeking a talented Senior Data Scientist to join our Marketing Data and Analytics team working remote anywhere in the US. The Marketing Data and Analytics team supports marketing initiatives with actionable data and insights across the full consumer lifecycle. We champion a holistic marketing measurement strategy to ensure campaign results are measured with a consistent approach throughout all touchpoints of the consumer funnel. As the Senior Data Scientist, you will support Pharmacy Marketing’s growth initiatives and campaign measurement strategy.

The Pharmacy marketing group has acquisition, retention and engagement campaigns to inform and acquire Humana members to utilizing Humana Pharmacy benefits. Humana members can fill their prescriptions with Humana Pharmacy for their regular prescriptions as well as their specialty medications. This position directly supports the Pharmacy Marketing organization in understanding the needs of the Pharmacy campaigns and helps with measuring the success of each channels and communications with Humana members.

You will partner closely with marketing strategy and business partners to establish realistic business goals for our messaging campaigns, develop data-driven strategies to meet those objectives, and measure success so we can continuously improve our efforts.

Key Role Functions

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for leveraging data to drive business insights for our marketing partners

• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on marketing campaign support

• Mine, clean and analyze data from company databases and external data sources to build prediction of marketing goals, report on campaign performance over time by each channel

• Develop custom machine learning models such as segmentation, multi touch attribution, churn models etc.

• Use predictive modeling to bring insights into Humana member experiences utilizing Regression, Random Forest, XG Boost models, clustering, text mining for revenue generation, and other business outcomes

• Conduct a power analysis, hypothesis testing, develop marketing A/B test design, support implementation of the tests and present the statistical findings of the test to our business partners

• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy

• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes

Only persons with authorization to work permanently in the U.S. need apply. EEO 

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of data analytics experience OR Master's degree and 2 or more years of data analytics experience

• Demonstrated experience with SAS, Python, R, and/or SQL

• Use mathematics, statistics, modeling, business analysis, and technology to transform high volumes of complex data into advanced analytic solutions

• Manage assignments that involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors

• Experience in developing, maintaining, and collecting structured and unstructured data sets for analysis and reporting

• Ability to create reports, projections, models, and presentations to support business strategy and tactics

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree

• Marketing experience a plus

• Measuring Campaign Performance

Additional Information 

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:

• At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested

• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership

• Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

Humana offers a variety of benefits to promote the best health and well-being of our employees and their families. We design competitive and flexible packages to give our employees a sense of financial security—both today and in the future, including:

• Health benefits effective day 1

• Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay

• Recognition pay

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match

• Tuition assistance

• Scholarships for eligible dependents

• Parental and caregiver leave

• Employee charity matching program

• Network Resource Groups (NRGs)

• Career development opportunities

Our Hiring Process

As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we may contact you via text message and email to gather more information using a software platform called HireVue. HireVue Text, Scheduling and Video technologies allow you to interact with us at the time and location most convenient for you. 

If you are selected to move forward from your application prescreen, you may receive correspondence inviting you to participate in a pre-recorded Voice, Text Messaging and/or Video interview.  Your recorded interview will be reviewed and you will subsequently be informed if you will be moving forward to next round of interviews.

If you have additional questions regarding this role posting and are an Internal Candidate, please send them to the Ask A Recruiter persona by visiting go/Buzz and searching Ask A Recruiter! Please be sure to provide the requisition number so we may be able to research your request quicker.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$117,600 - $161,700 per year

 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 03-28-2025
About us
 Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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