External Data Consultant
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Aug 26, 2019
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- Category
- Actuary
- 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) team is the foundation for data-driven decision making at Allstate. This team works across the Enterprise (including Allstate Protection, B2B, Allstate Financial, and Investments) to manage the strategy, integration and governance of data at Allstate.
The Data and Analytics Consultant I position is responsible for understanding data problems, projects and strategies and working towards specific goals. This role will proactively scan the market place for new external data providers and will work closely with those external data suppliers. This role is responsible for working with stakeholders to represent the business needs and partnering with Technology to influence key decision makers.
- Provides support in the governance of business data to ensure data is consistent, accurate, available, and accessible
- Contributes to the common vision by elevating the organizations commitment to clean, reliable, and accurate customer and business data
- Ensure a cross functional view of business data is available to the enterprise
- Implement processes to maintain high quality data assets
- Contributes to project milestones associated with specific data & analytics projects or activities within own department or workgroup
- Manages work through a cohesive plan that outlines objectives, timelines, risks, and deliverables enabling the movement of the most important work forward
- Proactively communicates risks, issues and status to leadership and key stakeholders
- Solves problems to ensure task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members and functional mangers
Job Description
Job Qualifications
- Bachelors degree required
- 2-4 years of business experience and/or business project management experience
- Uses sound decision making capabilities including problem solving approaches, decision frameworks; ability to support routine to complex analysis
- Has strong aptitude to understand Allstate systems and data
- Has an understanding of financial services/Property and Casualty consumer trends, industry/ competitive dynamics, and economics
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of data into meaningful conclusions and recommendations
- Possesses quantitative and analytical skills
- Manage multiple priorities given aggressive timelines; comfortable performing in a fast paced, dynamic and ambiguous business environment; manage both internal and external resources
- Ability to design and lead data and technology heavy projects Ability to revise tactics to support changing strategies and direction
- Ability to inspire trust
- Excellent presentation skills; dynamically (persuasively) presenting ideas to management
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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- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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