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Data Science Associate
Location
Des Moines, IA, United States
Experience
Mid
Posted
Jul 10, 2026
Apply by
August 9, 2026
Applicants
0
Early applicantEasy applyFull-timeHybrid
Job Description
## Company Description
**Why Wellmark?**
We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!
Learn more about our unique benefit offerings [here](https://www.wellmark.com/about/careers/benefits).
Want to know more? You can learn about life at Wellmark [here](https://www.wellmark.com/about/careers/working-at-wellmark?_gl=1*g4u6dn*_gcl_au*Mzc2MzU0ODg1LjE3NDExODg2Njk.).
## Job Description
Responsible for extracting, integrating analyzing, and interpreting data from internal and external data sources, to develop intelligence packaging that draws conclusions and supports recommendations that will help to achieve business goals. Collaborate with team and key business stakeholders to ensure critical business objectives are met by following the analytics lifecycle within assigned domains. Work cross-functionally with business stakeholders to identify risk and provide solutions that drive data-enabled decisions.
## Qualifications
Required:
- For consideration, you must meet one of the following educational/technical requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, or economics.
- Less than 1-year hands-on experience with specific experience in data or statistical analysis, including data collection, joins, analysis, statistics and/or data presentation. Specific exposure with hands-on data analysis of databases and files using SQL dialects and statistical programming languages.
- Strong formulas and data visualizations knowledge.
- Exposure to business intelligence or analysis platforms.
- Naturally curious and ability to drive business decisions and solutions.
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex information.
- Proactive, self-starter and can manage priorities through effective time management skills.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree.
- Experience working with unstructured data sets.
- Experience developing project roadmaps and timelines.
- Proficiency in HROR highly preferred
## Additional Information
**Job Responsibilities**
a. Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan.
b. Research and gather appropriate data from various sources. Source, extract, assemble, collate, and consolidate data needs for the business.
c. Profile and prepare data for analysis.
d. Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes, using tables, graphs, and charts, as well as algorithms, forecasts, and trends.
e. Interpret results, identify key findings to quantify business value.
f. Develop a narrative to summarize and convey findings to stakeholders. Make recommendations based on findings.
g. Create, update, and maintain a production schedule for reporting and ensure reports and presentations are completed on schedule.
h. Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives, meeting aggressive timeframes.
i. Collaborate with peers to identify reporting objectives and develop reports and analyses that meet their need and drive Wellmark’s value proposition for stakeholders.
j. Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidation, aggregation, and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc.
k. Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources.
l. Other duties as assigned.
***An Equal Opportunity Employer***
*The policy of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.*
*Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact us at [careers@wellmark.com](mailto:careers@wellmark.com?subject=Reasonable%20Accommodation%20Request)*
*Please inform us if you meet the definition of a "[Covered DoD official](https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/252.203-7000-requirements-relating-compensation-former-dod-officials.)".*
At this time, Wellmark is not considering applicants for this position that require any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please refer to the following resources:[Nonimmigrant Workers](https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and [Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants](https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants)
Wellmark supports and expects the responsible use of AI for our workforce! We welcome the responsible use of these tools by job seekers as well and are interested in learning from you; you will have an opportunity in the application process to share which tools you used and how you applied them.
Key Responsibilities
- Extract, integrate, analyze, and interpret data from internal and external sources.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify risks and provide data-enabled solutions.
- Conduct discovery sessions and gather requirements to build preliminary plans.
- Research, source, extract, and consolidate data needs for business analysis.
- Profile and prepare data for analysis, including data profiling and quality assessment.
- Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes using algorithms and forecasts.
- Interpret results and quantify business value to develop recommendations.
- Create narratives and presentations to convey findings to stakeholders.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives.
- Maintain documentation and procedures for data sourcing and analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics
- mathematics
- finance
- accounting
- computer science
- engineering
- or economics
Skills Required
SQLStatistical programming languagesData visualizationData analysisData collectionData joinsBusiness intelligence platformsCommunicationProblem solvingCuriosityTime managementSelf-starterProactiveUnstructured data setsProject roadmapsHROR
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