Senior Director Data Management - Data Operations

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Data Analytics

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$129,200.00 - $213,200.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

At Travelers, we create trusted strategic products and services to unlock the power of our data. We enhance and measure our ability to access, govern, manage, connect and integrate internal and external data assets and ensure our employees understand the value of data and the impacts to our business.

As a Senior Director, Data Management – Data Operations you will be responsible for ensuring strategic product and market-driven initiatives are met, while driving the evolution of our legacy data applications to ensure sustainability and work towards solutions balancing current production objectives with our strategic transformation goals.

The position will have direct reports and requires advanced leadership skills to develop team members, influence emerging trends, and stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.

What Will You Do?

• Manage data availability, usability, integrity, security, and privacy.
• Align resources for ongoing projects and initiatives, in context of current and future staffing needs
• Collaborate with partners to design and implement solutions balancing strategic and operational objectives.
• Articulate guiding principles aligned with strategic vision.
• Create decision making and solution framework to enable scaling expertise and skills to better support initiatives with work spanning across legacy production and emerging strategic data and analytics environments.
• Design processes to capture and maintain information relevance.
• Coach team members on analytics, data and requirements elicitation, solution design, and work management techniques and best practices
• Foster an innovative, inclusive team environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Understanding of emerging trends and technologies in data management
• Experience designing, building, delivery complex data applications and operational support and maintenance of regulated, financial data, processes and controls
• Strong communication skills for consulting and influencing at all levels.
• Collaborative mindset for effective teamwork and stakeholder engagement.
• Customer-focused problem-solving approach.
• Excellent communication and influencing abilities.
• Experience with a Property & Casualty Carrier.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or six years of relevant data and analytics, and/or data management experience.

What Is in It for You?

• 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.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. 

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.