VP, Insights & Analytics Innovation Leader

Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The Opportunity: The North America Data Organization is responsible for developing and implementing organizational data strategy, leading data and analytics capabilities to enable better business outcomes, and driving productization and innovation of data usage across QBE NA. The team ensures that QBE NA leverages data as driver for business value enablement through effective collaboration across our business and functional teams.  The VP, Insights & Analytics Innovation Leader will lead a team of experts responsible for translating complex data inputs into clear and actionable insights for business and functional teams to support the achievement of strategic NA business objectives. This leader will ensure the successful delivery and continued optimization of best-in-class data analytics products, services and solutions to support business and functional teams, while working toward next-generation analytics capabilities across the portfolio to improve self-service functionality, uncover non-obvious value drivers, and improve near-real-time delivery of insights. The VP is expected to work in close partnership with NA Data, IT, data science, digital, business and functional leaders, and external partners. The role will act in an advisory capacity to enable data-driven decision-making across NA business and functional teams. This role will report directly to QBE NA’s Head of Data, and will be a member of the NA Data Leadership Team.

• Location: New York City (55 Water Street, NY)

• Work Arrangement: This role is hybrid, where you will be expected to be in the office 2-3 days per week.

• The salary range for this role is between $183,000-$275,000

Your New Role

• Create, own and optimize best-in-class suite of compelling data analytics products, services and solutions that translate complex data inputs into actionable and value-added insights that drive business, functional and strategic data priorities across NAO

• Partner closely with NA Data leadership, IT delivery, data science and digital teams to ensure analytics product delivery is aligned to business value objectives

• Act in an advisory capacity to translate trends and non-obvious data insights into actionable strategies to increase the speed of decision-making and improve productivity across NA business cells and functional teams. Establish and cultivate analytic SME knowledge (Analytics COE) to support strategic priorities across Specialty, Commercial, Underwriting, Claims, Operations and Finance   

• Operationalize, own and continuously optimize the “productization” of analytics delivery in partnership with the Data Product and Platforms team

• Support the establishment of UX (including wireframing, prototyping, design libraries, etc.) capabilities to support customer-centric data design around analytic product delivery, in partnership with the Data Design team

• Influence NAO’s data capabilities roadmap by driving toward next-generation data visualization, self-service functionality and near-real-time insights delivery across our platforms

• Partner closely with IT delivery, actuarial, data science and various business groups on various analytic delivery efforts  

• Be an expert in all thing data analytics, including data aggregation, data wrangling, advanced quantitative methods/modelling approaches and statistical packages (like Stata, SAS, SPSS, R, Python), data output interpretation, data visualization approaches and software (Tableau, Qlik, Looker, Power BI), and open-source data web technologies for data visualization (Angular, Node.js, D3.js)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

• 10+ years relevant experience

Preferred Competencies/Skills

• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills; able to demonstrate executive presence and lead through influence across all levels of the organization

• Ability to translate strategic objectives from across Divisional business and functional teams into analytic design and delivery requirements. Significant experience in commercial-grade analytics, data science, and AI/ML product development and delivery at Fortune 500 companies

• Extensive experience in overall data, data science, analytics, technology, analytic product development, and interpretation in commercial / P&L environments

• Experience in SAS, R, Python, Stata or other statistical data packages and coding languages

• Extensive experience in data visualization approaches and software (Tableau, Qlik, Looker, Power BI), and open-source data web technologies for data visualization (Angular, Node.js, D3.js)

• Significant experience working with actuarial, data science, technical and business teams to design, build and deliver business-critical data analytics solutions  

• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty, ability work in a fast-paced environment as a technical data leader

• Project Management and Delivery skills (project planning and tracking; issue identification and management; project status reporting)

Compensation Package: The salary range for this role is provided above. This is the national range for location(s) listed. The salary offer will be decided based on the role's complexity, its location, and the candidate’s professional background, including their education and experience. Beyond the base salary, regular full-time and part-time employees will also be eligible for QBE’s annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance. We encourage all candidates to apply, even if their salary expectations fall outside of this range, as we are committed to finding the right fit for our team.

QBE Benefits: We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to:

• Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office

• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis

• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%

• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education

• Employee Network and Community – QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community

To learn more, click here: Benefits | QBE US.

Why QBE?  What if you could have a positive impact – at work and in the world?

At QBE, we’re enabling a more resilient future – for our customers, communities, environment, and for our people. We’re building momentum to achieve something significant and know our people are at the center of our success.

Our industry offers interesting and varied careers where you can help people to protect what matters most. As part of the QBE team, you’ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. And our international scale means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact.

Join us now, so you can be part of our success – and we can be part of yours!

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Supplementary information 

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Coaching for success, Critical Thinking, Data Science, Influencing, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Presenting with Impact, Process Improvements, Report Writing, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Statistical Analysis, Team Management

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.