Practice Area
Healthcare IT
Region
Anywhere
Location
Remote
Company Location
Mount Laurel NJ
Position Id
48349

Vice President of Data Science

Job Description
Client Summary:
  • Offers a technology-supported, expert-led method to enhance documentation and coding quality.
  • Designed for organizations navigating complex, performance-driven environments.
  • Uses a blend of clinical and technical expertise to uncover areas for documentation improvement.
  • Contributes to more accurate financial and quality outcomes, along with stronger staff engagement.
  • Provides a short, low-commitment trial to demonstrate value quickly.
Position Responsibilities:
  • Serve as the company-wide data science lead, managing multiple data and AI initiatives and setting the strategic direction for data science.
  • Coordinate internal technology, business operators, finance, and third-party partners to launch data and AI initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities to advance data science, build business cases, and measure ROI for all initiatives.
  • Monitor and optimize program performance, assess predictive model ROI and subgroup performance, and iterate quickly through testing, deployment, validation, and refinement.
  • Communicate program performance and impact to business, finance, and executive leadership.
  • Work closely with the data architecture team to operationalize new models.
  • Split responsibilities across stakeholder management, requirements gathering, program design, and hands-on programming, modeling, and data analysis.
  • Lead and develop a team of data scientists, fostering a growth-oriented, inclusive culture and maintaining strong communication, collaboration, and accountability.
Experience & Skills:
Required Experience and Qualifications:
  • 8+ years’ experience in a hands-on data science role.
    • Clear familiarity and comfort with fundamental data science principles (model creation, training, evaluation, ML ops, and internal communication).
    • Demonstration of previous close coordination with DBA and dev ops staff is ideal.
    • Programming experience with some variety of data science, data management, and data visualization tools; for example, R, Python, SQL, SAS, PowerBI.
    • Familiarity with data warehouses, data architecture, and data operations principles.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing a data science initiative/program/function within an organization, including accountability to a program outcome, managing internal and external stakeholders (up to C-suite/executive level), and vendor management.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps or similar application lifecycle management tools is an asset.
  • Healthcare analytics experience is required; revenue cycle management is an asset.
Compensation $200k-$240k

Most benefits start first of month following 30 days employment. Additionally:

  • 401k Match
  • Flexible Time off (FTO)
  • Tuition Reimbursement