Sr Consultant, Actuarial and Analytics - Business Insurance Rate Development

Travelers • Hartford, AR

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About The Position

Business Insurance Actuarial is looking for a process-driven and technically skilled individual to join our Rate Development Strategic Initiatives team! This position plays a critical role in enabling the Rate Development team to operate more efficiently and accurately as filing demands continue to grow and the business evolves toward modern systems. As a key contributor to our Product Lifecycle strategy, you will build, improve, and streamline the tools and processes that power our state filing support. This includes reducing redundancy, increasing consistency across lines of business, and modernizing our capabilities to deliver products to the marketplace with speed and quality. Strong technical skills, a continuous improvement mindset, and the ability to work across multiple priorities are key attributes of a successful candidate. An ideal candidate thrives on turning complex, manual workflows into clean, scalable solutions, and takes pride in work that makes the whole team better. Specific responsibilities include: - Build, maintain, and streamline tools and processes that support the filing process, exhibits, and underlying data; reducing errors, redundancy, and maintenance burden while increasing speed to market and consistency across lines of business and products - Leverage new tools and data products to support external indications and enable analysis of differences compared to internal indications - Modernize rate page creation, redlining capabilities, and other Rate Development tools to improve accuracy and efficiency - Support Product Lifecycle goals of delivering products to the marketplace with speed and quality through process enhancements and tool modernization - Support filings as needed This position collaborates closely with Rate Development and Cross Lines teams as well as broader actuarial, technology, and business partners across Business Insurance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 1 year of experience in quantitative analysis.

Nice To Haves

• 3 or more Actuarial exams.
• College degree in STEM related field.
• Strong PC skills (MS Office), basic programming skills (eg. SQL, SAS).
• 2+ years of quantitative analysis experience.
• Developing understanding of insurance products and industry.
• Leadership: Development of Leading Self, exhibiting self-awareness and seeking opportunities to learn while also starting to manage ambiguity.
• Initial development of Leading Others, including mentoring/training team members.
• Initial development of Leading the Business, including being a positive member of the Enterprise culture.
• Business Acumen: Has an understanding and knowledge of a few basic key business drivers and disciplines such as: underwriting, products, reinsurance, distribution, sales, operations, risk control, claim, and financials.
• Able to effectively utilize this business knowledge in developing analytic solutions.
• Has a foundational perspective of certain areas of the industry and developing trends such as: technology, analytic methodology, products and performance of competitors.
• Is familiar with a couple other key business drivers and disciplines.
• Relationship Management: Begin to develop professional business relationships across the BI&AA community within Segment.
• Generate and solicit ideas.
• Quantitative Analysis: Able to use appropriate tools to compile and analyze data effectively.
• Perform basic-level analytics working more independently and effectively with awareness of materiality and reasonability, foreseeing more next steps.
• May perform technical review of unit work product.

Responsibilities

• Participate on strategic projects with execution responsibility for assigned project sub-components.
• Recommend and execute solutions for assigned project to resolve challenges of an initiative.
• Execute work thoughtfully and efficiently as a team member to improve project team performance and timelines.
• Independently refresh actuarial and analytic analyses, perform new analysis with guidance, and begin to apply judgment.
• Support and begin to drive components of unit initiatives.
• Begin to take accountability for process efficiencies within assignments.
• Provide support as necessary for initiatives across the Enterprise within the scope of influence.
• Communicates progress, findings and results to manager and peers.
• Communicates technical topics to primary working group.
• Actively participates in group discussions.
• Provides formal written communication such as memos or presentations with supervision.
• May be a mentor or resource for less experienced analytic talent within assigned Segment.
• Onboard new employees and interns in unit.
• Support various training and skill development initiatives across assigned Segment and the Enterprise.
• May provide support for recruiting efforts and candidate talent assessment efforts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level