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June 16, 2025
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Data Scientist - Assortment Optimization

Wellesley-93 Worcester St
Full-time
Hybrid
$87K/yr - $173K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
CVS Health is a health solutions company that provides integrated healthcare services to its members. The Data Scientist - Assortment Optimization will solve complex problems and build predictive models to optimize product assortment decisions, enhancing customer experience and driving revenue in CVS Health’s Front Store business.
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Responsibilities

  • Solve complex problems using operations research, dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning, build and improve optimization models to optimize assortment decisions
  • Develop and leverage in-depth knowledge of Retail Merchandising business processes, translate key drivers of business value to analytics opportunities, and simulate impact of business decisions to improve customer experience
  • Guide the technical approach, leverage large datasets, and build scalable and deployment ready models that work well with CVS Retail’s diverse product portfolio, develop robust methodologies to assess model performance
  • Stay up to date on the state-of-the-art modeling methodologies and latest research
  • Utilize the latest developments in the generative models (LLMs and other AI models) to improve and enrich the performance of current models
  • Work cross functionally with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders including business partners, engineers, and other data and analytics teams. Share progress, findings, recommendations, and their business implications. Present meaningful and insights-driven materials on analytical results with recommendations and go forward planning to guide a variety of audiences including internal stakeholders and senior leadership

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Operations Research/Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Strong Python and SQL skills, proficiency in working with large datasets
  • Familiarity with mathematical optimization models using open-source or commercial optimization solvers (such as Pyomo, Gurobi, Pulp, ILOG CPLEX)
  • Experience working with a data engineering/MLOps team to deploy data science models, familiarity with version control (GitLab or GitHub), and ML platforms (AWS SageMaker, Databricks, GCP Vertex AI, etc.)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and attention to detail. Worked in an agile environment, has the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences, including experience creating communication materials (e.g., white paper, slide decks, etc.)

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in a quantitative field
  • 2+ years of work experience in retail, consulting, or a related field
  • Experience solving pricing, promotions, assortment, or supply chain problems
  • Experience developing price optimization models, in depth understanding of merchandising (price, promotion, assortment) concepts and metrics in retail
  • Experience managing large scale projects and working with multiple business stakeholders

Benefit

  • Affordable medical plan options
  • 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching
  • Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility
CVS Health is a health solutions company that provides an integrated healthcare services to its members.
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Founded in 1963
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA
10001+ employees
https://www.cvshealth.com/