Growth Analytics - Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Unum Group•Portland, ME

About The Position

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: Award-winning culture Inclusion and diversity as a priority Performance Based Incentive Plans Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution Mental health support Career advancement opportunities Student loan repayment options Tuition reimbursement Flexible work environments All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans . And that’s just the beginning… With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! General Summary: General Summary The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst is part of our Customer Experience Organization (CXO) and supporting our Marketing Demand Generation efforts. The Sr. BIA will act as a subject matter expert responsible for moderate to complex data analysis, preparation and visualization. They will use their technical and domain expertise to translate data into meaningful insights for teams and leaders to confidently take action on. They will also take lead on the design and implementation of large-scale projects and ensure they are delivered to satisfactory completion. The ideal candidate will be passionate about all things data and we seek a creative and analytical thinker to help us solve our most challenging problems. This position will work closely with Business Analysts, BI Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and directly with the business units for requirements gathering and validation. The Senior BI Analyst plays a critical role in guiding the work and mentoring of other BI Analysts to ensure we are meeting objectives and growing future talent within our analytics teams.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree preferred, and/or equivalent experience
6+ years experience with demonstrated success at a BI Analyst II level or comparable data analytics related field
Excellent knowledge of analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)
Excellent knowledge of modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
Adept in extracting and leveraging data out of data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
Ability to embrace change, adapt to the unexpected, and focus energies, people, and solutions on practical and positive results
Demonstrated problem solving skills
Strong communications skills with the ability to influence various levels of leaders using data and logic
Strong and proven ability to effectively mentor, develop and coach others
Aptitude and drive to learn new technologies and analysis techniques
Is comfortable taking responsibility for the design & implementation of technical solutions
Strong team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization

Responsibilities

Utilize business knowledge to understand business needs and provide technical analytics and solutions to meet these needs
Conduct moderate to complex data profiling and analysis to evaluate data sources to determine the best source for business information
Acquiring, transforming and translating data into actionable dashboards, reports, algorithms or datasets that has a substantial impact on the functional area of support
Performing moderate to complex statistical analysis and presenting findings to guide, influence and advise leadership, including at times senior leaders
Collaborate with data engineers to perform data validation and testing activities as appropriate
Develop and build upon existing expertise knowledge of the insurance industry, company and competitor landscape
Develop and build upon existing expertise of data stored in company databases, as well as emerging trends in business intelligence technologies
Works directly with internal customers to refine requirements and validate output to ensure solutions will meet expectations
Provide mentoring, coaching and developmental support to lower-level BI Analysts

Benefits

Award-winning culture
Inclusion and diversity as a priority
Performance Based Incentive Plans
Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
Mental health support
Career advancement opportunities
Student loan repayment options
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work environments