Lead Data Scientist - Predictive Analytics - 237146

Job Title: Lead Data Scientist - Predictive Analytics
Work Location: 100% Remote in the US (EST Hours)
Duration: 3-6 month Contract to Hire
Conversion Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000 base

ABOUT OUR CLIENT

Medix is currently seeking a Lead Data Scientist for a contract to hire opportunities with one of our best healthcare clients!

Our client is a Medical Equipment / Medical Device company that specializes products for Surgery/ Operating Rooms as well as Sterile Instrument Processing. This role is a Lead Data Scientist to help build the internal Predictive Analytics practice and team.

This individual will be working with the Customer Insights team and external consulting partners to build multivariate predictive models that will be used in market segmentation and other revenue/sales workstreams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serving as a key resource for driving data science strategy discussions
• Serving as a Team Lead to help grow and mentor a team of individual contributors
• Working directly with business stakeholders across marketing and sales lines of business to capture and form predictive analytics goals
• Planning for and leading predictive modeling initiatives
• Conducting analysis to identify and determine the appropriate variables to run in the multivariate modeling
• Obtaining raw data from internal and subscription data feeds
• Working with Databricks, R and Python to conduct data pre-processing on large data sets (medical device and healthcare data)
• Planning for, designing and building predictive models for use cases applied across sales & marketing
• Specifically seeking prior experience in building customer segmentation, pricing, and market penetration models
• Building and tuning a variety of multivariate predictive models
• Providing summary insights to high-level executives across the company

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Required Bachelor Degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics or Data Science. Masters Degree preferred
• Minimum 10 years professional experience
• Minimum 5 years as a Statistician or Data Scientist
• 3+ years in a Leadership role
• Expertise in multivariate predictive modeling for healthcare related data
• Strong hands-on with R, Python and SQL
• Experience with Databricks and/or Spark/PySpark preferred

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