Data Scientist

Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide. As the nation's most advanced 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility, we're redefining what's possible in personalized medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing. We're proud to be recognized as one of Houston's fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc. 5000 List for 2025.

Our strength is built on four core values: People, Quality, Service, and Innovation. Guided by these principles, we've created a uniquely integrated healthcare platform powered by advanced technology, operational excellence, and a relentless commitment to patient care. From manufacturing and quality control to distribution and customer experience, our teams work together to raise industry standards, expand access to critical medications, and improve outcomes for patients and providers across the country.

At Empower, joining our team means more than starting a new role. It means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that's transforming healthcare at scale. We invest deeply in our people, encourage bold thinking, and create opportunities for growth, leadership, and innovation at every level. Your ideas matter here, your development is supported, and the work you do has a direct impact on the lives of millions.

If you thrive in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment where innovation, collaboration, and ambition come together, Empower Pharmacy is the place for you. Let's transform healthcare together.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Data Scientist drives business impact by translating complex enterprise data into trusted, decision-ready intelligence that improves quality, accelerates growth, and optimizes operations across Empower's hyper-growth 503A/503B environment. This role executes end-to-end data science initiatives, from problem framing and data preparation through model development, validation, interpretation, and communication, delivering scalable analytical solutions that support measurable business outcomes. Leveraging AI as a force multiplier, the role increases the speed, scale, and precision of analysis while applying strong statistical judgment, rigorous experimentation, and disciplined validation. Partnering cross-functionally, the Data Scientist identifies patterns, quantifies opportunities, evaluates tradeoffs, and translates findings into actionable insights that enable sound execution. The role demonstrates strategic thinking, rigorous execution, and learning agility to navigate evolving priorities, challenge assumptions, and continuously strengthen analytical capabilities while maintaining privacy, traceability, compliance, patient safety, and human accountability.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Analytical Ownership

• Problem Framing: Translate ambiguous business questions into precise analytical problems, define success measures, and select methods that produce actionable, decision-ready outputs.
• Data Preparation: Build reliable analytical datasets by assessing data quality, resolving inconsistencies, documenting assumptions, and preserving traceability from source through final analysis.
• Model Development: Develop and evaluate statistical or predictive models using appropriate techniques, balancing performance, interpretability, robustness, and practical business requirements.

Business Partnership

• Insight Delivery: Communicate findings, uncertainty, tradeoffs, and recommended actions clearly to cross-functional partners, enabling timely decisions grounded in evidence and business context.
• Experiment Design: Design rigorous analyses and experiments that test hypotheses, quantify impact, and distinguish meaningful signals from noise before operational decisions are made.
• Decision Support: Apply AI-assisted analytical techniques where appropriate to accelerate pattern identification and scenario evaluation while validating outputs and preserving accountable human judgment.

Regulated Excellence

• Quality Controls: Validate analytical methods, outputs, and assumptions through repeatable checks, documentation, and peer review practices that strengthen accuracy and trust.
• Compliance Alignment: Conduct data science work with disciplined attention to privacy, patient safety, documentation, and applicable controls within regulated 503A and 503B operations.
• Process Improvement: Identify recurring analytical bottlenecks, improve reusable methods and workflows, and share practical knowledge that increases team consistency, speed, and analytical maturity.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Strong statistical reasoning, experimental design, predictive modeling, and analytical validation skills, with sound judgment in selecting methods appropriate to business questions.
• Ability to prepare, assess, and interpret complex datasets while maintaining data quality, traceability, privacy, and documentation standards in regulated operations.
• Clear communication skills for translating technical findings, uncertainty, and tradeoffs into practical recommendations for cross-functional partners with varied analytical backgrounds.
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled analytical techniques for pattern identification or scenario evaluation, including validation practices that preserve transparent and accountable decision-making.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 5 years experience applying data science, statistical analysis, or predictive modeling to complex business problems with measurable outcomes and documented analytical rigor.
• Practical experience preparing data, evaluating model performance, testing hypotheses, and communicating findings to stakeholders who use analysis to make operational decisions.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience demonstrating comparable analytical capability.
• Experience working in a regulated, quality-sensitive, or operationally complex environment where analytical accuracy, documentation, privacy, and sound judgment materially affect outcomes.
• Experience partnering across business and technical functions to translate ambiguous questions into structured analyses, reusable methods, and decision-ready recommendations.
• Deep technical expertise in Python, SQL, experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, optimization, KPI and measurement framework design, decision-support analytics, and modern data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.

Key Competencies:

• Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.
• Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges.
• Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity.
• Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions.
• Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences.

Values:

• People: Empowering people defines who we are.
• Quality: Excellence in every product, every time.
• Service: Serving others is our highest purpose.
• Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.

Employee Benefits, Health and Wellness:

We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more:

Physical Requirements:

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.