Business Insights & Analytics Leadership Development Program (BIALDP) Participant
Company: The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Location: Hartford
Posted on: June 24, 2022
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.Compensation 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$64,400.00 - $106,300.00Target Openings30What Is the
Opportunity?Innovative thinking, creative problem-solving, and a
determination to challenge the status-quo. These are some of the
defining qualities for participants of our Business Insights &
Analytics Leadership Development Program (BI&A LDP). This
three-year rotational program is designed to grow and develop your
understanding of how to leverage data for business insights and
self-leadership skills. Each rotation will consist of a combination
of hands-on experience, access to a robust BI curriculum, and a
formal mentoring program to prepare you for a dynamic career. You
will have the opportunity to explore multiple functions of
analytics while learning from different leaders within
Travelers.
As a Business Insights & Analytics LDP consultant, you will model
the way for others and set a personal example of what is expected.
You will be expected to positively challenge processes and identify
new and innovative ways to get work done more effectively and
efficiently. You will be expected to take initiative, embrace
change, actively listen to and support diverse points of view and
celebrate the success of others. If this is more than you imagined
in a career in insurance, we encourage you to join us at
Travelers.
This program offers optional rotations with the ability to rotate
into one of the many job families of traditional business
intelligence; including but not limited to: Information Delivery,
Data Management, Business Performance Analytics, Data Engineering,
or Business Analysis. Positions within this family work with
business customers to determine how business intelligence
information and analytic solutions can be leveraged to provide
business insights for business strategies, capabilities, and
processes.Primary Job Duties & ResponsibilitiesThe program is
multi-faceted and offers a business insights & analytics and
business development curriculum focused on analytics, insurance,
strategy, leading self and influencing others. Other program
components include formal mentoring, networking and career
guidance.BI&A LDP participant duties will vary based on the
specific rotation, but will be within one or more of the areas
outlined below:Participants could be placed in one of the following
rotations:Business Performance Analytics:
- Profiles data, draws business inferences, completes analysis
and clearly articulates findings for a target audience.
- Holds accountability for performing less complex core tasks of
Descriptive Analytics (the exploration and investigation of past
business performance), partnering with team members on more complex
tasks.
- Manipulates raw data sets into information fit for analysis
applying needed logic or requirements from subject matter
expert.Data Engineering:
- Independently performs Data Acquisition, Prep and Exploration:
reviews, prepares, basic design, and integrates data.
- Corrects minor problems and implements data cleansing/quality
solutions.
- Operationalizes and automates well defined simple data products
independently.
- Builds, tests, and implements simple analytic processes,
including pilots and proof of concept.Business Analysis:
- Assists in the process of eliciting, analyzing, specifying,
communicating and validating business intelligence requirements
while identifying project issues which require escalation.
- Manipulates, validates, and analyzes data using Excel, SQL and
other analytical tools to develop insights; aids business partners
with reporting, dashboard and other analytic solution to achieve
their business goals.
- Learns how to inform data management of new sources and
attributes for their governance, including driving improvements to
data quality, and identifying data gaps to resolve
issues.Information Delivery:
- Works with delivery team to fulfill the delivery strategy for
business requirements.
- Learns how to develop, automate, compile, and prepare reports,
dashboards, cubes, embedded analytics, etc.
- Takes ownership of necessary components such as: Collection of
data, Integration of that data, and Development (prototyping,
coding, and production build).
- Learns how to complete root cause analysis and facilitates some
quality assurance facets of projects.
- Learns how to inform data management of new sources and
attributes for their governance.Data Management:
- Aids in the data governance and metadata processes by preparing
artifacts for review and submission (i.e. researching, preparing
simple submissions, and data quality metrics.) Participants are
expected to evolve to facilitator of data governance meetings.
- Facilitates, creates, and monitors for data quality across all
domains.
- Demonstrates understanding of overall data models, data
relationships, mapping lineage and business rules and participates
in the creation of data models (e.g. entity design and population)
and takes ownership accordingly to department requests and
inquiries.
- Learns and adheres to all data management, information
protection, and governance practices.Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering or Math) required.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the
future.Education, Work Experience, & Knowledge
- Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or greater.
- Previous data, general business, and/or project management
experience.
- Previous property & casualty insurance experience (may include
one or more data-related internship experiences).
- SQL experience strongly preferred, experience with
dashboarding, scorecard, or reporting tools a plus.
- SAS and/or Python literacy.Job Specific Technical Skills &
Competencies
- Accountability: Strong track record of taking ownership and
responsibility for actions and outcomes, performance, and
results.
- Analytical and Critical Thinking: Demonstrated aptitude in
identifying current or future problems or opportunities, analyzing
data, synthesizing and comparing information to understand issues,
identifying cause/effect relationships and exploring alternative
solutions to support sound decision making.
- Change Management/Resilience: Ability to remain energized and
focused in the face of ambiguity, change or strenuous demands.
- Customer Focus: Proven customer service skills with the ability
to provide service excellence to internal or external clients.
- Emotional Intelligence: Demonstrated track record of self and
social awareness, empathy and balances confidence with
humility.
- Interpersonal: Excellent communication skills with the ability
to actively engage with others while maintaining a positive
attitude.
- Judgment/Decision Making: Capability of exercising sound
judgment, making decisions and committing to a position.
- Leveraging Differences: Proven capacity to works with and
include people from different backgrounds, experiences, cultures,
races, etc. and view those differences as assets to be leveraged to
accomplish business goals and objectives.
- Relationship Management: Strong relationship management skills
including the ability to seek out, build, foster and maintain
productive relationships, networks or alliances to meet goals and
achieve results.
- Teamwork: Ability to work together in situations when actions
are interdependent, and a team is mutually responsible to produce a
result.
- Work Ethic: Possession of a strong drive to do what it takes to
get the job done; inquisitive and demonstrates a strong willingness
to learn.Environmental / Work Schedules / Other
- Travel Requirements: Travel Occasionally
- Travelers offers a hybrid work location model that is designed
to support flexibility.Employment PracticesTravelers 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.
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/.
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