Director, Portfolio Analytics - Hiscox : Job Details

Job Type: Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

As the Director of Portfolio Analytics, you will lead a high impact team focused on advancing the Hiscox US business through data and analytical insight. This is a fast paced, highly influential role on the US underwriting team, responsible for the development, advancement, and maintenance of foundational business intelligence, alongside maturing our predictive and descriptive capabilities.

In this role, you will take on a high impact role acting as a critical thinker for Hiscox. You will enjoy applying your core technical skills and innovative thinking to solve complex business problems and identify business opportunities. You will be able to operate in a wide variety of business functions and handle multiple competing priorities; be expected to help the business with evidence-based decisions and through your team, provide ad hoc analysis as well as predictive and prescriptive models to build Hiscox's data culture. You must be able to successfully operate in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment, communicating business value derived from analytical solutions to key stakeholders.

This is an ideal role for an individual who is passionate about the use of data and analytics to influence decisions and is focused on continuous improvement of both process and outcomes. You will be expected to conceptualize new ways of doing things, communicate vision simply and effectively to key stakeholders, and see these visions through to implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with senior leaders in understanding business strategy and assist in guiding and supporting strategic direction by providing compelling recommendations derived from advanced analytics and data science.
• Effectively lead the underwriting organization through a transition of its current business intelligence assets to PowerBI tools as we migrate the business to Databricks. Begin leveraging Dataiku.
• Leverage industry standards, emerging methodologies, and empirical research to develop critical inputs to business information, helping business leaders develop innovative approaches to driving their business.
• Creation and advancement of Hiscox underwriting models, including leveraging 3rd party data to assess risk quality and pricing adequacy for potential underwriting intervention.
• Work collaboratively within the Hiscox network of technical teams to help support the maturation of analytics practice within the organization.

Experience:

• Degree in a STEM or closely related field.
• 5-7 years of experience in insurance analytics. Small Commercial experience preferred.
• Advanced knowledge using complex datasets to develop analytical procedures (model design, development, and implementation). Experience in coaching to upskill others.
• A track record of strong leadership, communication, influence, and team building.

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience with analytical tools/programming languages and databases (for example: R, Python, and SQL), capable of bringing models to a production state consumable by non-technical users (for example, familiarity with Shiny for R).
• Foundation in building and delivering robust business intelligence tools to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in developing predictive and prescriptive analysis (predictive modeling, machine learning, or data mining) used to draw key business insights and clearly articulate findings for target audiences.
• Background in data visualization/presentation preferred.

This position is hybrid and requires 2 days in the office per week. Position can be based in the following locations:

• West Hartford, CT (salary range $150k-$200k)
• Manhattan, NY (salary range $150k-$200k)
• Atlanta, GA (salary range $140k-$178k)

What we offer:

• 401(k) with competitive company matching
• Comprehensive health insurance, vision, dental, and FSA plans (medical, limited purpose, and dependent care)
• Company paid group term life, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
• 24 Paid time off days plus 2 Hiscox days, 10 paid holidays plus 1 paid floating holiday, and ability to purchase up to 5 PTO days
• Paid parental leave
• 4-week paid sabbatical after every 5 years of service
• Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs
• Annual reimbursement up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with any fitness program
• Company paid subscription to Headspace to support employees' mental health and wellbeing
• 2023 Gold level recipient of Cigna's Healthy Workforce Designation for having a best-in-class health and wellness program
• Dynamic, creative, and values-driven culture
• Modern and open office spaces, complimentary drinks
• Spirit of volunteerism, social responsibility, and community involvement, including matching charitable donations for qualifying non-profits via our sister non-profit company, the Hiscox USA Foundation

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