Senior Director, Agency Distribution Decision Science

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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 will be determined by factors including scope, complexity, location, skills, education, training, credentials, and experience. Employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range: $146,400.00 - $241,600.00

About the Role

At Travelers, our vision is to advance our ability to fuel analytic-driven business decisions by accelerating cross-enterprise collaboration and capabilities. As a Senior Director, Agency Distribution Decision Science, you will combine data expertise, statistical principles, business understanding, relationship building, and communication skills to advance analytical maturity and business outcomes. Through explanatory modeling, analytics, experimental design, and inferential techniques, you will surface actionable insights that influence business decisions and strategies. This role focuses on supporting business areas beyond pricing and reserving, including Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Human Resources. This position manages a team.

Responsibilities

• Direct and coach the team in determining and using appropriate techniques such as diagnostic analysis, active monitoring, and/or multivariate modeling to influence strategic business decisions by balancing constraints and opportunities.
• Mentor less experienced analytic talent, onboard new employees and interns, and support recruiting and talent assessment efforts.
• Promote the exploration and implementation of new data and analytic tools, techniques, and industry best practices to apply to business problems.
• Interpret and synthesize findings across multiple analyses and influence optimal business action by balancing business constraints, analytical findings, and business impact.
• Build organizational partnerships across lines and functional teams to define and inform key strategic decisions.
• Ensure sound data strategy, quality, and coding best practices, and bring recommendations for improvements to supporting areas.
• 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.
• Eight 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.
• Experience working on large-scale multidimensional data using advanced knowledge of open-source cloud-enabled analytical programming languages.
• Advanced project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and ensure timely completion.
• Strategic thinker with sound judgment to resolve issues as they arise.
• Excellent communication skills to interact, translate analyses, and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the Enterprise.

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree or six years of experience in data, analytics, engineering, science, technical analytical fields, or relevant experience is required.

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, where Travelers makes an annual contribution into your 401(k) account when you make a payment toward your student loan. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: Includes tools, discounts, and resources to support wellness goals and caregiving needs. Access to free professional counseling services, health coaching, and other mental health resources.
• Volunteer Encouragement: Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.