Director, Strategic Analytics Jobs

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Strategic Analytics is a growing team at Arch. The team develops innovative predictive models and analytical tools to improve profitability and growth. Advanced analytics techniques play a critical role in this mission. To be successful, we need to develop powerful models, tools and insights that give Arch a unique, competitive advantage.
As Director, Strategic Analytics, you will play a crucial role in developing the team’s analytics capability. You will work on high-profile advanced analytics projects that drive the company’s decision-making and strategy. You will work with or direct other data scientists to build best-in-class predictive models with creativity, statistical rigor and business sense. As a key member of the Strategic Analytics team, you will advance our advanced analytics capabilities and shape how Arch thinks about data and analytics.
Please note this is a hybrid position (2x in office/week) and will report into one of our east coast offices: Boston, MA; Hartford, CT; New York, NY; White Plains, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Jersey City, NJ.
Job Responsibilities

• Establish robust monitoring processes for implemented solutions and provide regular feedback to business partners
• Develop powerful insights and tools using a variety of analytical techniques and technologies
• Strategic Analytics is an implementation focused team. You will work to establish strong relationships with business partners to understand the problems they are trying to solve and work to implement the best-suited analytics solutions
• Help establish best practices and repeatable processes for the Strategic Analytics team
• Discover, explore and analyze internal and external datasets for the purpose of developing advanced analytics models
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams and share ideas to solve complex business problems
• Provide thought leadership on new, innovative techniques, approaches and software
• Build strong partnerships with peers across the organization to support project goals and boarder team needs
• Build predictive models using advanced analytics techniques including GLM, text analytics, and machine learning
• Guide, support, mentor and develop the growing team of predictive modelers and data scientists

Required Skills/Experience

• Familiarity with a variety of other advanced analytics techniques is preferable, for example: decision trees, clustering, text mining, random forests, survival analysis, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills; ability to convey complex concepts to people across the organization
• Demonstrable execution and organization skills – task management, time management and project management
• Exceptional teamwork skills required to play a key role in cross-functional teams. Ability to collaborate and build trusting relationships with business partners
• Ability to design, build and implement new modeling approaches
• Natural curiosity to understand the world around you and question as needed
• Track record of delivering significant business value from small or non-standard data sets
• Proven hands-on experience developing generalized linear models in a commercial lines setting including loss ratio, frequency/severity, pure premium, claims modeling
• 6+ years’ experience in advanced analytics role in P/C insurance, preferably commercial lines
• Experience coding in Python, R or SQL
• Combines critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
• Comfortable handling ambiguous concepts and breaking down complex problems into manageable pieces.
• Detailed understanding of statistical theory, predictive modeling, data mining and other advanced analytical techniques

Desired Skills/Experience

• Experience developing models in cloud-based tools in Azure such as Databricks, Snowflake, Github
• Experience with cloud-based model deployment via MLOps
• P/C commercial lines actuarial experience
• Knowledge of visualization tools such as PowerBI

Education

• Actuarial designation is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, actuarial science, mathematics, engineering or similar quantitative fields; or significant experience in advanced data analytics

For individuals assigned or hired to work in Jersey City, New York City, and/ or Westchester County, the base salary range is listed below. This range is as of the time of posting. Position is incentive eligible.
100,400 -170,000

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• Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) offered will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to geographic location, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability & specialization as well as business needs. The above range may be modified in the future

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