About the position
At Travelers, our vision is to advance our ability to fuel analytic-driven business decisions by accelerating cross-enterprise collaboration and capabilities. As a Manager, 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.
Responsibilities
- Utilize a deep understanding of the business to procure data for a specific analysis or prototypes for new data asset, while following coding best practices.
- Possess a strong command of internal data sources, explore new and unstructured data sources to assess potential business value.
- Determine and use appropriate techniques that may include diagnostic analysis, active monitoring and/or multivariate methods designed to answer business questions, test hypotheses, or assess impacts and results.
- Explore and suggest new data and analytic tools, techniques and industry best practices to apply to business problems.
- Create appropriate visualization (charts, graphs, maps, etc.) 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.
- Become 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM related field, or a Business School Master's Degree with a concentration in a technical or analytical field.
- Four 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 intermediate knowledge of open-source cloud-enabled analytical programming languages.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and follow through to ensure timely completion.
- Ability to foresee challenges and proactively look for ways to create more efficient processes for the business.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain analyses and methodology with business partners.
- Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the data & analytics community across the Enterprise.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree or three years of experience in data, analytics, engineering, science, technical analytical fields or relevant experience.
Benefits
- Health Insurance Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
- 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.
- Minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
- Access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
- Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
