Travelers Insurance

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 Category

Data Analytics

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

$157,000.00 - $259,200.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As the AVP, External Data Evaluation and Investment Lead, you are responsible for establishing and leading the BI External Data team, leveraging extensive knowledge of vendor products and strong analytical skills to support all BI functional areas. The role will drive the overarching BI external data evaluation and investment while collaborating with enterprise external data teams to establish and maintain best practices and a comprehensive discipline for external data evaluation and use cases. The successful candidate will lead a team of seven or more employees.

What Will You Do?

• Lead and manage comprehensive external data projects, from product exploration to acquisition.
• Oversee key vendor relationships and facilitate product exploration and communication coordination.
• Maintain an inventory of BI vendor products and applications, and lead efforts to continuously improve the Use Case governance process and efficiencies.
• Triage and monitor BI external data spending and utilization.
• Guide the team in developing best practices for external data evaluation, post monitoring and conduct analytical peer reviews, especially of vendor-provided analyses.
• Collaborate with external data production enablement teams to influence operational strategy to ensure optimal performance and value
• Assess value propositions and provide feedback to business partners to inform direction.
• Understand external business drivers and best practices and implement them into the organization as appropriate.
• Collaborate across business lines to understand goals and identify strategies to achieve goals.
• Foster and maintain partnerships with internal and external organizations to orchestrate the most effective methods of value delivery.
• Influence senior management over the need to allocate time for data stewardship.
• Execute on the program delivery aligned with the overall business strategy.
• Provide guidance and coaching for team members; guide your team to advance their subject matter expertise and to identify future leaders to meet Travelers’ business objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Leadership experience.
• Quantitative analysis experience.
• Strong understanding of insurance products and industry.
• Exceptional influencing and/or consulting skills; able to build consensus among a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and translate complex information to senior leadership and non-technical teams.
• Strong PC skills (MS Office).
• Regularly challenges conventional thinking.
• Takes ownership of projects/portfolios of projects and meetings and makes independent recommendations to influence business outcomes.
• Proficient in Leading Self including exhibiting decisiveness and self-awareness while also effectively managing ambiguity.
• Proficient in Leading Others including modeling the way for others and forging synergy.
• Development of Leading the Business including actively engaging in driving business results, broad thinking and promoting an Enterprise culture.
• Business Acumen: Able to effectively utilize this business knowledge in developing and implementing analytic solutions.
• Has perspective on the industry and developing trends, including: technology, analytic methodology, products, and performance of competitors.
• Is familiar with most other key business drivers and disciplines.
• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the Enterprise.
• Aware of potential conflict across the organization and address proactively.
• Acknowledge accomplishments of others to broader organization.
• Set and manage expectations with business partners for portfolio of projects.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and interact with all levels of the organization.
• Forward thinker with the ability to bring industry best practices and regulatory knowledge to the table in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Advanced organization skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and follow through to ensure timely completion.
• Expert change leadership skills with the ability to create an inclusive environment, manage conflict and develop solutions to mitigate risk.
• Advanced understanding of overall physical and logical data model and of data relationships, mapping, lineage and business rules.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or seven years of relevant data and analytics, and/or data management 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/.