Director, Decision Science
Company: Travelers Canada
Location: Hartford
Posted on: March 17, 2023
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 160 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 CategoryData Analytics, TechnologyCompensation OverviewThe
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$125,600.00 - $207,200.00Target
Openings1What 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
Director, 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 will have direct reports.Travelers offers a
hybrid work location model that is designed to support
flexibility.What Will You Do?
- Direct 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.
- Explore and implement 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 based on balancing business
constraints and analytical findings.
- 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.
- Seven 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.
- Experience leading and managing complex projects.
- Ability to think strategically and use judgement to resolve
issues as they arise.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact,
tailor, and translate analyses and methodology and influence at
senior levels of the organization.
- Proactively build and own professional business relationships
across the Enterprise.What is a Must Have?
- Bachelor's degree or five 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 and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness
goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to
professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources
to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you're
eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed
therapist.
- 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
PracticesTravelers is an equal opportunity employer. We believe
that we can deliver the very best products and services when our
workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve.
We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the
diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive
workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and
work together to deliver extraordinary results. -If you are a
candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical
requirements of this role, please send us an 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 .
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