Senior Director, Agency Distribution Decision Science

Travelers; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 146,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Pension plan

Paid time off

Wellness program

Volunteer program

Job summary

Travelers in Hartford, CT is seeking a Senior Director, Agency Distribution Decision Science to lead a team of data professionals. You will apply advanced analytics, explainable modeling, and experimental design to surface actionable insights guiding business decisions across product, sales, marketing, and operations.

You will mentor staff, drive cross-enterprise partnerships, ensure data quality, and promote new tools and techniques while balancing constraints and opportunities to improve

Qualifications

• Eight years of data and analytics experience.
• Experience with explanatory, diagnostic and inferential methods such as experimental design and hypothesis testing.
• Experience with large-scale multidimensional data using cloud-enabled analytical languages.
• Advanced project management and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Direct and coach the team in determining and using techniques to influence strategic decisions.
• Mentor and onboard new employees, and assist with recruiting and talent assessment.
• Promote exploration and implementation of new data tools, techniques and best practices.
• Interpret and synthesize findings to influence optimal business action across functions.
• Build partnerships across lines and functional teams to inform key strategic decisions.
• Ensure data strategy, quality, and coding best practices; suggest improvements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Team leadership

Explanatory statistics

Diagnostic analytics

Inferential statistics

Experimental design

Time series analysis

Cloud analytics

Project management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM or Business Master’s with analytics focus

Tools

Open-source analytics languages

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Data Analytics, Data Science

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$146,400.00 - $241,600.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

At Travelers, our vision is to advance our ability to fuel analytic-driven business decisions by accelerating cross-enterprise collaboration and capabilities. As a Senior Director, Agency Distribution Decision Science, you will combine data expertise, statistical principles, business understanding, relationship building, and communication skills that will help to advance analytical maturity and business outcomes. Through explanatory modeling and analytics as well as experimental design and related inferential techniques, you will surface actionable insights that influence business decisions and strategies. Simply put, you are helping the business understand "the why" underneath business trends and data. This discipline focuses on supporting business areas and activities beyond pricing and reserving, including Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, among others. This position manages a team.

What Will You Do?

• Direct and coach the team in determining and using appropriate techniques that may include diagnostic analysis, active monitoring and/or multivariate modeling methods that can be used to influence strategic business decisions by balancing constraints and opportunities.
• Be a mentor or resource for less experienced analytic talent, onboard new employees and interns, and provide support for recruiting and talent assessment efforts.
• Promote the exploration and implementation of new data and analytic tools, techniques and industry best practices to apply to business problems.
• Interpret and synthesize findings across multiple analyses and influence optimal business action by balancing business constraints, analytical findings, and business impact.
• Build organizational partnerships across lines and functional teams to define and inform key strategic decisions.
• Ensure sound data strategy, quality, and coding best practices and bring recommendations and suggestions for improvements to supporting areas.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM related field, or a Business School Master's Degree with a concentration in a technical or analytical field.
• Eight 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.
• Experience working on large-scale multidimensional data using advanced knowledge of open-source cloud-enabled analytical programming languages.
• Advanced project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and follow through to ensure timely completion.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to use sound judgement to resolve issues as they arise.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact and translate analyses and methodology and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the Enterprise.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's degree or six years of experience in data, analytics, engineering, science, technical analytical fields or relevant experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance :Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.