Senior Manager, Decision Science — Sales Insights

Travelers Canada; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Travelers is seeking a Sr. Manager, Decision Science to advance analytic maturity across the enterprise. Lead data-driven initiatives, surface actionable insights, and mentor analytics talent to influence business decisions and strategies.

Salary ranges nationally; actual compensation tied to location, scope, and experience. This role emphasizes collaboration with Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and HR to drive informed decisions.

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.
• Five 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.
• Ability to foresee challenges and proactively look for ways to create more efficient processes for the business.
• Experience leading and managing complex projects.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact and translate analyses and methodology at various levels of the organization.
• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the data & analytics community across the Enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Utilize a deep understanding of the business to procure data for current and future analysis or prototypes for new data asset, while following coding best practices.
• Seek opportunities to provide stronger data quality and recommend improvements.
• Determine and use appropriate techniques that may include complex diagnostic analysis, active monitoring and/or multivariate methods designed to answer business questions, test hypotheses, or assess impacts and results.
• Explore and propose new data and analytic tools, techniques and industry best practices to apply to business problems.
• Apply appropriate visualization to analytic insights so that they may be delivered to various audiences.
• Interpret and communicate findings to key stakeholders.
• Recommend optimal business action based on balancing business constraints and analytical findings.
• Leverage existing organizational partnerships across lines and functional teams to influence analytic outcomes and start to inform strategic decisions.
• Be a mentor or resource for less experienced analytic talent, onboard new employees and interns, and provide support for recruiting and talent assessment efforts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Data analytics

Statistical modeling

Experiment design

Hypothesis testing

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or four years in data/analytics fields

Five years of related data analytics experience

Job description

Travelers is seeking a Sr. Manager, Decision Science to advance analytic maturity across the enterprise. Lead data-driven initiatives, surface actionable insights, and mentor analytics talent to influence business decisions and strategies.

Salary ranges nationally; actual compensation tied to location, scope, and experience. This role emphasizes collaboration with Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and HR to drive informed decisions.