Data Science Manager
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Feb 8, 2019
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- Category
- IT , Executive / Management
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
The Data, Discovery and Decision Science (D3) General Management job family is accountable for meeting business goals through the use of teams that vary in size depending on the scale and complexity of the business need. This job family works with various stakeholders throughout the enterprise to develop effective relationships to support business goals. Additionally, this job family is responsible for ensuring successful execution of the organizational structure as it relates to talent management and quality of deliverables.
The Band E Manager is responsible for leading a team in work that allows clients to use data-driven insights to make decisions that enable Allstate to profitably grow. The manager will provide functional and technical strategies for enabling business decisions with actionable data and analytics. This individual will create a work environment that enables employees to be their best and deliver on their accountabilities.
This individual is responsible for managing and contributing to a wide range of projects and programs, and exhibits broad influence on peers, broader team and outside stakeholders. The manager is also a key driver in identifying and implementing process improvements to lead to increased efficiency, quality and effective budget allocation. Additionally, the Band E Manager understands the business needs and corporate goals and applies strategic thinking to develop measures to reach such goals.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Oversees the design and delivery of complex technical projects
- Works directly with business partners to develop, communicate and execute on projects
- Continually monitors and anticipates resource needs and makes proactive recommendations and oversees day to day operations
- Provides strategic direction and takes accountability for requirements, procedures and standards
- Provides effective, real-time performance management feedback, coaching and mentoring
- Prioritizes talent cultivation, retention and succession planning
- Demonstrates influential leadership and leads by example when handling ambiguous and difficult situations
- Drives effective use of budget
Problem Solving
- Anticipates and resolves critical to complex operational issues
- Engages appropriate parties in discussion to drive issue resolution and decision making
- Leverages numbers / metrics / prior experiences to draw conclusions and drive business results
Collaboration and Communication
- Works across the organization to ensure coordination of the project portfolio with other initiatives
- Develops and delivers communications for complex technical projects to non-technical audiences (appropriate audience, vehicle, level of detail, urgency)
- Projects strong storytelling skills (verbal & written) and engaging leadership presence
- Functions as a liaison between business unit and technology area and builds strong relationships
- Serves as thought leader on team communication needs
Knowledge Management
- Possesses advanced discipline and insurance knowledge, working knowledge of all teams (business, technology, etc.), applies it and teaches others
- Articulates corporate goals & strategy, how it connects to individual teams / disciplines, applies it and teaches others
- Effectively navigates across Allstate Personal Lines and Shared Services
- Actively shares; purposeful and strategic conduit from business to team and stakeholders
Project Management
- Acts as liaison with business partners and technology for assigned projects and portfolios, identifying and driving resolution to issues impacting product or project quality, timely implementation of initiatives and/or quality of initiatives
- Provides support to business partners as a resource on D3 projects
- Manages the portfolio/inventory of all team projects with minimal support, to ensure projects are implemented on time, at or under budget and with quality
- Represents team in project meetings to communicate results, issues, timelines, etc.
- Provides regular reporting for assigned projects
Job Qualifications
- Education: Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
- Experience: 7 + years experience; prior insurance experience preferred
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Advanced problem solving skills
- Advanced decision making skills
- Advanced communication skills (written and verbal)
- Advanced time, organizational and project management skills
- Advanced negotiation skills
- Intermediate conflict resolution skills
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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