http://travelers.jobs2web.com/go/Connecticut-Insurance-Executive-Jobs/151642/ View Connecticut Insurance Executive Jobs at Travelers en-us http://travelers.jobs2web.com/images/travelers/home_logo.gif http://travelers.jobs2web.com/go/Connecticut-Insurance-Executive-Jobs/151642/ 720 Job ID: 791296
Location: CT-Hartford

Available Openings: 1

Committed. Competitive. Constructing our Future.

That's Travelers. We are one of the leading insurance companies in the United States. Our superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers - and opportunities for our employees. You will find Travelers to be full of energy, and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.

Bond & Financial Products (B & FP) is seeking a senior leader to work directly with the senior management team to build a world-class business intelligence organization. This individual will drive the strategic vision to leverage data, information, foundational analytics as well as analytic tools/applications for optimal business processing and critical decision making. Integral to this will be leading the design and development of a next generation business intelligence data warehouse for B&FP.

This role will be accountable for building, leading, managing, mentoring, and developing the teams responsible for creating an information advantage for the B & FP organization with a focus on business strategy and analysis, data and program management and information delivery. This role will also be the key B&FP point person to coordinate with the Enterprise Business Intelligence and Analytics (EBIA) group.

This individual will develop an annual strategic Management Information plan, including business initiatives, analytic tools, and technical investments. Working closely with key partners including MI IT, Product, Actuarial and Finance, this person will be accountable not only for thought leadership but also for the delivery of information and analytic tools and applications to B&FP's business customers.

Additional Key Accountabilities to include:
-Establish and implement a comprehensive integrated Management Information strategy
-Develop and drive a culture by which information is integral to decision making
-Build technical expertise through hiring key resources and developing skills of existing team
-Establish standards for technology and business processes within the MI organization
-Drive development and maintenance of business intelligence best practices
-Oversee data management and data governance within B&FP
-Ensure alignment with enterprise information and analytic application strategy efforts
-Serve as the overall liaison with business sponsors and executives
-Create and maintain a proactive communications culture
-Facilitate the prioritization of projects and requirements among competing business interests
-Identify, communicate and mitigate project risks to stakeholders, and ensure teams have appropriate support to meet goals
-Align data warehousing, database, and other information technology projects with overall business strategies
-Secure and maintain funding for key initiatives and measure return on investment

Experience and Requirements:
-10+ years experience in leading business intelligence and data warehousing efforts
-10+ years of demonstrated leadership in complex/matrix environments
-Deep understanding and appreciation for both business and technology components of information strategy
-Demonstrated success in managing multiple, complex and corporate-wide projects
-Financial services industry experience strongly desired
-Strong overall understanding of the various analytical and reporting processes including operational reporting, predictive modeling, financial analysis, and data mining.
-Demonstrated strong decision making skills - strategic and critical thinking ability
-Concise and persuasive oral and written communication skills
-Solid analytical, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills to understand and anticipate the impact and opportunities across multiple critical projects
-Experience in developing working relationships with top business and technical executives
-Bachelor's degree required and MBA or Master's Degree preferred
-Success in the role will require the development of a vision; a plan for realizing the vision; stakeholder buy-in; and plan execution.

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Location: CT-Hartford

Available Openings: 1

Committed. Competitive. Constructing our Future.

That's Travelers. We are one of the leading insurance companies in the United States. Our superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers - and opportunities for our employees. You will find Travelers to be full of energy, and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.

Bond & Financial Products (B & FP) is seeking an experienced business intelligence professional to lead the business strategy & analysis group with the B&FP business intelligence organization. This individual will drive the execution of the strategy, leveraging data, information, foundational analytics as well as analytic tools/applications for critical decision making leading to business success. Integral to this will be supporting the analysis and development of a next generation business intelligence data warehousing platform for B & FP.

This role will be accountable for building, leading, managing, mentoring, and developing the team responsible for data management and for collecting and synthesizing business requirements to support advanced business intelligence techniques. This position will require a close working relationship with key partners including MI IT, Product, Actuarial and Finance. This person will be accountable for thought leadership in identifying and outlining business intelligence requirements for and with B & FP-s business customers.

Additional Key Accountabilities to include:
-Foster a culture by which information is integral to decision making
-Build expertise through hiring key resources and developing skills of existing team
-Establish standards for business processes within the unit
-Establish data management and governance procedures within B & FP
-Ensure alignment with enterprise information and analytic application strategy efforts
-Serve as the liaison with business sponsors and information delivery
-Create and maintain a proactive communications culture
-Facilitate the prioritization of projects and requirements among competing business interests
-Identify, communicate and mitigate project risks to stakeholders, and ensure teams have appropriate support to meet goals
-Align data warehousing, database, and other information technology projects with overall business strategy
-Secure and maintain funding for key initiatives and measure return on investment

Experience and Requirements:
-10+ years experience in business intelligence, data warehousing and/or financial systems
-Proven track record of delivering successful business intelligence projects that add significant value to the business
-Solid understanding and appreciation for business components for information strategy
-Knowledge in technical aspects of business intelligence including data modeling, tools, relational database management systems, ETL, metadata / data management, and OLAP tools
-Knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Cognos, SAS and WebFOCUS
-Good overall understanding of the various analytical and reporting processes in a large insurance company including operational reporting, predictive modeling, financial analysis, and data mining.
-Demonstrated strong decision making- strategic and critical thinking ability
-Solid analytical, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills to understand and anticipate the impact and opportunities across multiple critical projects
-Strong program management skills
-Experience in developing working relationships with top business and technical executives
-Bachelor-s degree required and MBA or Master-s Degree preferred

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Location: CT-Hartford

Available Openings: 1

Committed. Competitive. Constructing our Future.

That's Travelers. We are one of the leading insurance companies in the United States. Our superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers - and opportunities for our employees. You will find Travelers to be full of energy, and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.

VP and Chief Actuary - Personal Insurance

Summary
Personal Insurance is seeking a senior executive to work directly with the Personal Insurance senior team to drive the evolution of its actuarial group. This position oversees all actuarial functions including pricing/ratemaking, reserving, financial modeling & forecasting and will be an integral part of the strategies and execution that are needed for each to achieve the company objectives for profitability and growth. This position will also require innovative thinking and leadership driving the latest actuarial and product approaches as well as drive the strategic vision to leverage data, information, foundational analytics as well as analytic tools/applications for optimal business processing and critical decision making. This position will report to the Senior Vice President of Personal Insurance Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) and will lead a staff of approximately 25 people.

This role will be part of the Personal Insurance BI&A senior team while being accountable for leading, managing, mentoring, and developing the teams responsible for creating an information and business intelligence advantage for the Personal Insurance organization.

This person will develop a strategic plan, including business initiatives, analytic tools and insights as well as technical investments. Working closely with key partners like MI, IT, Product , Claim and Finance, this person will be accountable not only for thought leadership but also for the delivery of information and analytic tools/applications to Personal Insurance`s business customers.

Additional Key Accountabilities to include:
* Develop and maintain a culture by which information is integral to decision making
¬* Establish standards for technology and business processes within the organization
¬* Drive development and maintenance of actuarial best practices
¬* Ensure alignment with enterprise and business insurance information and analytic application strategy efforts
* Serve as the overall liaison with business sponsors and executives
¬* Create and maintain a proactive communications culture
¬* Facilitate the prioritization of projects and requirements among competing business interests
¬* Identify, communicate and mitigate project risks to stakeholders, and ensure teams have appropriate support to meet goals
¬* Secure and maintain funding for key initiatives
¬* Measure return on investment

Experience and Requirements
¬-15+ years of progressively responsible experience in actuarial related functions including but not limited to pricing, reserving, planning, financial reporting, management information, product development, reinsurance and data base management
-10+ years of demonstrated leadership in complex/matrix environments; ability to influence and build relationships across the enterprise
¬-Familiarity with actuarial and other insurance related models (e.g., GLM, CAT, ROE and RBC models); experience with predictive modeling initiatives a plus
-Experience in a mid to large size property casualty company preferred with solid understanding of Personal Insurance products
-Experience in managing multiple, complex, corporate wide projects
-Demonstrated strong decision making- strategic and critical thinking ability
-Concise and persuasive oral and written communication skills
-Solid analytical, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills to understand and anticipate the impact and opportunities across multiple critical projects
-Experience in developing working relationships with and providing advice and counsel to top business and technical executives
¬-Bachelor's degree required and FCAS preferred

Closing Statement
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We actively promote a drug-free workplace.

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We actively promote a drug-free workplace.]]> http://travelers.jobs2web.com/job/HARTFORD-VP-&-Chief-Actuary,-Personal-Insurance-Job-CT-06101/594967/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W_RSS http://travelers.jobs2web.com/job/HARTFORD-VP-&-Chief-Actuary,-Personal-Insurance-Job-CT-06101/594967/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W_RSS Job ID: 791721
Location: CT-Hartford

Available Openings: 1

Committed. Competitive. Constructing our Future.

That's Travelers. We are one of the leading insurance companies in the United States. Our superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers - and opportunities for our employees. You will find Travelers to be full of energy, and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.

Strategic Planning, Prioritization and Communication:

Identify key areas for focus across all of BI Operations (in close alignment with the business strategy), to help the Leadership team to achieve the BI Operations Vision over time
Organize and facilitate recurring meetings and working sessions with BI Operations leadership to gain periodic insights, validate ideas, clarify rumors and provide feedback from interaction with Enterprise
Develop prioritization criteria and leverage leadership inputs to create strategic plans for implementation; assign ownership and drive accountability
Work closely with the `Directors of Strategy- that report to each of the BI Operations Leaders to stay closely informed on each area and ensure alignment
Create consistent presentation approaches and templates to help BI Operations Leadership to quickly organize around updates and communication to various constituent groups - such as Senior Operations Leadership, Business Unit Leadership, Cross-Enterprise Communication, Field Leadership, etc.
Lead the insightful guidance and consolidation of individual BI Operations Leadership inputs for this communication, and develop high impact and succinct storylines based on current need and audience
Identify ways of representing Operations performance data that makes the information meaningful to the business and to the rest of the enterprise (e.g., convert capacity lift into a meaningful metric for business such as `ability to handle X additional submissions-, etc.)
Organize a reliable and user-friendly system of information sharing across BI Operations Leadership team, that helps each one to represent all the work going on in BI Operations with adequate familiarity
Ideate and create high impact communication mechanisms to reach a wider audience base, over time

Relationship Management (BUs, Enterprise):

Consistently work with business partners (e.g., MM Program Management Office, etc.), and functional areas (Product, Actuarial, IT, MI, etc.) to gain clear alignment and clarify ownership for current and future initiatives
Raise potential issues in a timely manner, and bring the appropriate constituent groups to the table to discuss and resolve them
Identify areas of synergy across groups, and arrange appropriate points of contact/meetings

Change Management Oversight:
Work with the Business Readiness and Field Communications team(s) to analyze each initiative, determine constituent groups being affected in varying degrees, identify impact of change to the most tangible extent possible, and identify means of preparing each group for the change
Stay closely coordinated with the business strategic program office to assess impact of initiatives to the field and other parts of the Operations organization; and synchronize change management approaches
Oversee communication development and deployment using the most appropriate channels and messages
Stay abreast of internally developed and available Change Management curricula and ELOD driven initiatives

Financial Analysis and Budget Review:
Gather all budget related information in a systematic format from BI Operations Leadership team, organize and query it to ensure comprehensiveness and internal consistency
Develop a meaningful format to present the information in a consistent way across the BI Operations Leadership
Work closely with BI Operations Finance to review BI Operations financials, budgets and plans to determine how they could be better optimized
Ensure that financials are consistent between Operations and the Business

Input for MI Reporting and Analysis:
Provide input to BI Operations MI and help create relevant structures and representations of Operations performance (the Shared Services group will remain accountable for the delivery of MI). This will include:
Pushing towards better alignment of the AE and AM metrics and scorecards
Developing more insightful ways to present Operating Reviews where possible
Creating a simple and intuitive template for BI Operations Leadership to represent their periodic updates to senior leadership, in a systematic and consistent manner

Alignment with Human Resources:
Work closely with BI Operations HR to identify resource needs and gaps. This will include:
Keeping HR closely informed of organization related feedback, ideas and insights that could require action - creation of training programs, etc.
Identifying ways to improve and optimize organization design and reporting structures

Key Skill-set Requirements:
Strong strategic and analytical bent of mind.
Ability to build trust with business partners across organizational boundaries.
Experience with influencing and initiating cultural change, facilitating and enhancing performance within a cross functional environment.
Experience with change management.
Extensive Customer Service/ Operations experience.
Superior oral and written communication skills.
Proven results-oriented behavior supported by an entrepreneurial mind-set.
Financial acumen and comfort with analytical software such as Excel, Access etc.
Intellectual horsepower, supported by a continual desire to keep abreast of trends in the industry and beyond.
Proven track record in leading initiatives and achieving results, and experience in process improvement.

Qualifications:
Masters degree in business strongly preferred, with a Bachelors in finance, engineering or related field.

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