Senior Director, Data Science, Sales & Customer Analytics

Business Insurance Analytics and Research team has an open Senior Director position focusing on Sales and Customer analytics initiatives.

• Communicate analysis, insights, and results to team, peers, business partners, and on an occasional basis to executive level leaders.
• Anticipate potential objections and influence senior leaders to adopt a different point of view.
• Lead a team of managers and individual contributors that are executing on multiple projects and activities.
• Partner with teams and leaders to ensure the successful execution of data science strategies.
• Set and manages expectations with business partners for portfolio of work.
• Generate ideas and drives consensus; is aware of potential conflicts.
• Make suggestions in the development of business plans for the portfolio.
• Broadly and frequently share expertise with the business and/or data science community through discussions, presentations, or peer reviews to improve business outcomes.
• Assist with recruiting, training, and talent assessment efforts.
• Provide guidance and coaching and drive career/technical development for team members.

• Masters in STEM related field or equivalent
• 10 or more years of related work experience, including 6 or more years of team leadership experience.
• Industry expertise in modeling/research/analytics or actuarial required.
• Industry level knowledge of value creation and business model concepts.
• Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers using negotiating and/or influencing skills.
• Subject matter expertise in the majority of external software programs.
• Ability to apply emerging statistical procedures to large highly complex work.
• Recognized industry expertise in 2-3 of the following: Regression, Classification, Machine Vision, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and Statistical modeling.

• Health Insurance
• Retirement
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program
• Volunteer Encouragement

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