Data Scientist

Red Oak is a joint venture between two Fortune 20 leading healthcare companies, CVS Health and Cardinal Health, responsible for securing generic pharmaceuticals for both organizations. Pharmaceutical Sourcing team is comprised of industry experts, strategists, and entrepreneurial thinkers who apply innovative strategies to bring generic pharmaceuticals to market more efficiently. Enjoy the best of both worlds with our hybrid schedule! Work from the comfort of home on Mondays and Fridays and join the team in our welcoming office space on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays for collaboration and connection.

: The Strategy and Analytics team at Red Oak is seeking a skilled Data Scientist to lead a wide variety of analytical projects that promote long-term innovation and help evangelize solutions and new technology to the broader organization. The position will work cross functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate business needs into problems to be solved using statistical modelling, machine learning, data visualization and process automation.

will also serve as Red Oak’s data science subject matter expert, guiding and training other analytics professionals to adopt Python based analytical solutions for data collection, web-scraping, data transformation, visualization and modelling.

: Analytics • Analyze and interpret large volumes of structured and unstructured data to address complex business challenges • Develop and maintain datasets and pipelines to organize, collect, and standardize data, facilitating insight generation and reporting needs • Design statistical models and supply-chain KPIs to aid rapid and effective decision making • Define and monitor model performance metrics, ensuring alignment with business impact over time • Research and integrate new technologies to enhance existing solutions and address emerging challenges Communication and Collaboration • Support change-management efforts to help the company adopt new data science approaches to decision making • Communicate complex concepts to all levels of the organization (who have a wide range of backgrounds) clearly and effectively • Design dashboards and visualizations that clearly convey necessary information to the audience • Act as a data science thought leader in the organization, by staying current on technologies, methods, and tools Internal Consulting & Executive Presentations • Conduct research across the business functions to understand the Red Oak business and the generic pharmaceutical industry • Create presentations related to your work with graphical representation of data, and messaging tailored to executive level audience • Understand product and market changes and implications for Red Oak’s strategy