AVP, Small Commercial Analytics & AI Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Travelers is seeking an AVP of Small Commercial Business Analytics to shape data and analytics strategy across multiple domains. You will drive explanations, diagnostics, and modeling to uncover insights guiding decisions in product and underwriting analytics for Small Commercial.

You will lead teams and collaborate with senior leaders to embed AI and analytics into strategic priorities, balancing opportunities with constraints and delivering measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM field or Business School Master's with technical/analytical focus.
• Ten years of data and analytic experience.
• Experience with explanatory, diagnostic, and inferential techniques such as experimental design, hypothesis testing, clustering analysis, time series and other statistical modeling algorithms.
• Industry level expertise of large-scale multidimensional data systems, 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.

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.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Analytics strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

AI adoption

Statistical modeling

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM or related field

Master's Degree in Business with technical/analytical focus

Job description

Travelers is seeking an AVP of Small Commercial Business Analytics to shape data and analytics strategy across multiple domains. You will drive explanations, diagnostics, and modeling to uncover insights guiding decisions in product and underwriting analytics for Small Commercial.

You will lead teams and collaborate with senior leaders to embed AI and analytics into strategic priorities, balancing opportunities with constraints and delivering measurable business impact.