Senior Director, Finance and Strategic Sourcing Analytics

The Travelers Companies•Saint Paul, MN

55d

About The Position

At Travelers, we're focused on expanding the application of data and analytics beyond managing risk, helping businesses increase their productivity and efficiency and enabling great experiences for our customers and agents. Senior Director, Finance & Strategic Sourcing Analytics, you will lead the strategic direction and execution of insights solutions. This is a high-visibility leadership role that involves building complex dashboards and leading cross-functional teams to deliver strategic analytics solutions that will be presented to executive leadership and drive enterprise-wide decision-making. This position directs a team of data and analytic professionals while maintaining an active technical role.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or six years equivalent experience with business intelligence tools, techniques, manipulation, or related.

Nice To Haves

Strong experience with BI Tools (MicroStrategy and Qlik Sense is highly preferred).
Experience partnering closely with Finance and Strategic Sourcing is highly preferred.
Familiarity with Snowflake/SQL.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to consult, present, and influence effectively to all seniority levels.
Forward thinker with the ability to bring industry best practices and regulatory knowledge to the table in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
Ability to coordinate and allocate resources to maximize efficiency and effectiveness.
Strong technical understanding of all delivery methods and platforms and their use and purpose.
Ability to set data and information delivery strategies.

Responsibilities

Assess value propositions and provide feedback to business partners to inform direction.
Own the intake of business demand and coordinate with business partners to ensure the broader insights portfolio is meeting needs.
Own responsibility for communicating what value is being delivered and why it has been prioritized to the rest of the organization. Ensure skills and capacity of the team meets long-term direction.
Drive communication of service offerings to business partners, including reporting, guided analytics, self-service, embedded, augmented, and data as a service capability.
Partner with leaders across the company and within lines of business to assess and adopt new Decision Analytics and Insights capabilities.
Work to ensure team structure and skills are sufficient to deliver and maintain value over time.
Foster partnership with internal and external organizations to orchestrate the most effective methods of value delivery.
Coach and aid in the skill development of the team, including team leaders.
Align solution design to enterprise data management, security, and governance controls.
Perform other duties as assigned.

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. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

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