Director, Health Data Science - Waterloo, Canada - Sun Life

Sun Life

Verified Company

Waterloo, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you'll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self.

You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you.

Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights.

Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Role Summary:

Sun Life Health is a leading Health and Benefits provider in Canada, offering Canadians comprehensive group benefits and a portfolio of digital health products. We are a passionate group who like to take on big challenges in a supportive environment, grounded in our purpose of helping Canadians achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We have an opportunity to use data to empower Canadians to take control of their health by personalizing health journeys, predicting health outcomes, preventing disease progression, and generating insights and research in partnership with the Canadian health ecosystem.

Reporting to the AVP Data Science & Analytics, the Director, Health Data Science & Analytics for Sun Life Health Solutions will be responsible for executing our health data science strategy to enable Sun Life Health in achieving sustainable competitive advantage and growth, and improving the health outcomes of our clients.

The Director manages a multidisciplinary team of highly skilled data scientists and analysts.

The main responsibilities include driving the implementation and alignment of analytics practices and processes in support of key business objectives, creating the strategy, vision, and direction of the team, improving capabilities, processes, tools, and setting the best practices.

The Director will also work with functional areas to align the team's efforts with business priorities, using advanced analytics methodologies, solutions and tools to help optimize business performance by deriving meaningful value from our data.

What will you do?

Strategic Leadership

Oversees creation and evolution of strategy and plans to build and grow health analytics solutions (e.g. clinical prediction, outcomes analyses, health journey personalization) and capabilities (e.g. RWE) in alignment with the strategic goals of Sun Life Health and anticipated shifts in the market and technologies.
Engage with senior management and business partners on a regular basis to identify priority areas for datadriven insights.
Establish health impact measurement and prediction strategy for Sun Life health to continuously drive improvements in and the optimal targeting of health solutions.
Identify and communicate priorities in alignment with team goals, develops and maintains data and analytics product roadmaps.
Assign individual responsibilities and prepares resourcing plans and schedules to support completion of project deliverables and adhoc requests, as well as development of best practices.
Engage the broader health data science ecosystem to build mutually beneficial partnerships on data, data science and healthcare analytics.

Operational Leadership

Drive the team to enable efficient delivery of analytics framework suitable to Sun Life Health goals.
Collaborate with senior management, product management, developer, data governance and operations, market development and marketing teams in delivering on clinical goals and business commitments.
Implement frameworks for data and analytics quality and problem solving that drive consistent outcomes across the team.
Establish governance and efficient communication with all groups involved with health data science and analytics projects and initiatives.
Drive projects and stakeholder alignment with strong leadership and communication skills.
Able to plan and manage complex deliverables in a dynamic and matrix organization.
Ensure broad strategies are translated into clear and practical objectives, metrics and action plans and assigns significant responsibility to others based on their capability all while supporting them in these new capacities to ensure success.

Leading Others

Manage, mentor, motivate, & set expectations for teams of highly technical individuals that build analytics products and hypothesis driven analysis.
Lead and provide programs support for change management and adoption of the standards, and best practices related to data analytics.
Cultivate a continuous improvement environment that fosters the development of supplementary skillsets and abilities, to fuel staff career growth, and upcoming organizational requirements.
Support employee development by having regular career conversations with all employees and supporting them in reaching their career goals.
Ensure knowledge is preserved