Director, Insurance Distribution Analytics

AAA Mid-Atlantic•Cincinnati, OH

2d•$117,839 - $187,157•Hybrid

About The Position

This role defines and leads the analytics strategy for Insurance, aligned with enterprise priorities. The Director provides leadership across analytics functions, ensuring alignment to business priorities and long-term strategic objectives. They lead prioritization and resource allocation across initiatives based on business value and impact, and coach and develop the team to future-proof their skills with a focus on scalability and organizational effectiveness. This position provides strategic direction for advanced deliverables, including complex business question resolution and directing analytic efforts that significantly impact key strategic imperatives. The Director develops and implements processes, procedures, and standards to optimize resource efficiency, and oversees the delivery of analytics, including data extraction, building, refining, and translating insights into strategy. They are responsible for data integrity and establishing standards for consistent, high-quality data and queries. This role leads the development of executive-level insights and presentations to influence stakeholders and drive strategic business decisions, ensuring standardization of Insurance Analytics. The Director proactively identifies additional learnings needed to deliver comprehensive insights and leads the development of annual and multi-year analytics roadmaps in partnership with Executive Leadership. They drive and influence the implementation of data and analytics capability evolution, and are accountable for measurable business outcomes such as revenue growth and ROI of analytics investments. The Director serves as an organizational thought leader, educating others on data usage for strategy and decision-making, and establishes governance, standards, and best practices across the analytics ecosystem. They stay informed of new analytics techniques and methodologies, drive enterprise adoption of insurance analytics products and tools, and champion data-driven decision-making across the organization. As a strategic partner to Officers and Executive Leadership, they shape business strategy and investment priorities, identify analytical needs, and provide thought leadership for analytical solutions. The Director partners with HR/L&D, IT, and other stakeholders to develop a long-term vision for LMS technology and data management strategies. They lead cross-functional analytics initiatives and may participate in conferences to share or gather best practices. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
8–10+ years in analytics/business intelligence, including strategic leadership roles.
5+ years of leadership experience, including leading leaders or multiple teams/functions.
Detailed knowledge of business operations fundamentals with a strong understanding of underlying statistical methods.
Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategy-aligned outcomes.
Basic SQL knowledge required.
Fluency in Power BI required.
Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to work in a cross functional matrix environment.
Effective presentation skills.
A high degree of professionalism and integrity.
Proven ability to work independently, managing multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline driven environment.
Demonstrated ability to make independent decisions, using sound judgment to identify and resolve issues, escalates when appropriate.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex analytics into easy to grasp concepts to non-technical partners.
Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence Executive and Management levels.

Responsibilities

Defines and leads execution of the analytics strategy for Insurance, aligned to enterprise priorities.
Provides leadership across analytics functions, ensuring alignment to business priorities and long-term strategic objectives.
Leads prioritization and resource allocation across initiatives based on business value and impact.
Coaches and develops team to future proof the skills of the team, with a focus on scalability and organizational effectiveness.
Provides strategic direction to the development of advanced deliverables such as complex business question resolution and directing analytic efforts that significantly impact and influence key strategic imperatives.
Develops and implements processes, procedures, and standards that optimize resource efficiency.
Oversees and ensures delivery of analytics, including the extracting, building, refining, and translating data and insights into strategy such that the interpretation of trends or patterns and identified solutions meet long-term business objectives.
Responsible for data integrity among various internal groups and/or between internal and external sources.
Establishes standards and ensures consistency for providing those groups with consistent high-quality data and queries.
Leads development of executive-level insights and presentations that communicate complex analytical results in a manner that clearly conveys recommendations and/or answers to strategic questions, concerns, risks, and opportunities, designed to influence key stakeholders and drive strategic business decisions.
Ensures standardization of Insurance Analytics, including the use of key analytics processes, design of analytical approaches, and development of tools which enable benefit identification, analysis and reporting.
Proactively identifies additional learnings needed to deliver insights such that the data displays a thorough picture of the environment.
Leads development of annual and multi-year (3–5 year) analytics roadmap in partnership with Executive Leadership.
Drives and influences implementation of data and analytics capability evolution.
Accountable for measurable business outcomes, including revenue growth, ROI of analytics investments, and operational efficiency improvements.
Serves as an organizational thought leader, educating others on the use of data, analysis, and statistics in designing effective strategies and making effective business decisions.
Establishes governance, standards, and best practices across the analytics ecosystem.
Remains abreast of new techniques and methodologies for data analytics.
Drives enterprise adoption of insurance analytics products, self-service tools, and decision frameworks.
Champions adoption of data-driven decision making across the organization, including executives and cross-functional leaders.
Serves as a strategic partner to Officers and Executive Leadership to shape business strategy and investment priorities.
Identifies analytical needs and provides functional and technical thought leadership for proposing the right analytical solution to meet evolving business needs.
Partners with Human Resources/Learning & Development, IT, and other key stakeholders to develop a long–term vision for Learning Management System (LMS) technology in combination with data management strategies, to enable timely and efficient delivery of business intelligence and sales activity.
Leads cross-functional analytics initiatives spanning Technology, Operations, and Insurance.
Participates in conferences, seminars, or AAA National events, to share or gather best practices.
Other duties as assigned.