AVP, Small Commercial Analytics - AI-Driven Strategy Leader

Travelers; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 169,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement matching & Pension

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Volunteer Encouragement

Job summary

Travelers seeks an AVP, Small Commercial Business Analytics to set data and analytics strategy across the Small Commercial unit in Hartford. You will oversee cross-functional analytics, guiding teams to surface insights that influence pricing, underwriting and product decisions.

You will champion AI adoption, mentor analysts, and partner with senior leaders to align analytics with enterprise goals, driving organizational change and value realization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field, or a Business School Master’s Degree with a concentration in a technical or analytical field.
• Ten years of related data and analytic experience.
• Experience using explanatory, diagnostic, and inferential techniques such as experimental design, hypothesis testing, clustering analysis, time series and other statistical modeling algorithms with the ability to decide the appropriate methodology for the purpose.
• Industry level expertise of large-scale multidimensional data systems, non-traditional data sources, open-source cloud-enabled analytical programming languages, and emerging AI tools and platforms.
• Industry level expertise of statistical and scientific techniques and how they are implemented through analytical programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience in developing, planning, and implementing analytical strategies, including leading teams and business partners through organizational change driven by AI and other emerging technologies.
• Experience leading teams of direct reports as well as leading cross-functional work groups.
• Ability to serve as an analytics lead, strategically guiding data initiatives and representing both analytics needs and business needs to our execution team.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to problem-solve, think critically, and operate strategically across the enterprise.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and interact with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders within business areas to define, inform, and influence key strategic decisions.
• Define and implement work routines and standards of practice to ensure optimal quality of work is being achieved.
• Identify barriers and remove obstacles affecting team performance.
• Work with business partners to ensure that the decision science team is focusing on the right priorities and assess team capacity to support upcoming initiatives within business area.
• Provide line of business perspective to enterprise initiatives and support cross-functional strategies and teams.
• Coach the team in diagnostic analysis, active monitoring and/or multivariate modeling methods that can be used to influence strategic business decisions by balancing constraints and opportunities.
• Champion the adoption of AI and other emerging analytical technologies, and lead the team and business partners through the organizational change required to embed them into everyday ways of working.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Exceptional communication

Strong business acumen

Analytical leadership

Cross-functional leadership

AI adoption

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM or Business Master’s with technical/analytic focus

Ten years of data and analytics experience

Job description

Travelers seeks an AVP, Small Commercial Business Analytics to set data and analytics strategy across the Small Commercial unit in Hartford. You will oversee cross-functional analytics, guiding teams to surface insights that influence pricing, underwriting and product decisions.

You will champion AI adoption, mentor analysts, and partner with senior leaders to align analytics with enterprise goals, driving organizational change and value realization.