When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.
Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:
Award-winning culture
Inclusion and diversity as a priority
Performance Based Incentive Plans
Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
Mental health support
Career advancement opportunities
Student loan repayment options
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work environments
*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.
And that’s just the beginning…
With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!
General Summary:
General Summary
This position requires a unique balance of technical, data and analytical expertise and a business strategist mindset. This role is responsible for overseeing multi-disciplinary teams in the building of data sources, data pipelines and the application of a broad array of analytics tools and predictive models to deliver data driven insights; and, then translating these insights into business value.
This is a leadership position that requires strong partnerships across key business areas to advance the use of analytics. This position is expected to provide strategic analytical input using new data assets and tools to improve, and transform as needed, existing business processes, customer experience, and business results.
This position requires the ability to lead a data and analytics team in real business applications; the individual will be a critical bridge between data and analytics development and business partners to help optimize business performance.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for defining their team's analytics strategy in partnership with Leadership across the organization. Define the tools, methodologies and staff mix utilized by the team as well as project priorities for the department.
- Define, develop and implement best practices in support of data & analytics projects to drive consistency and standardization of data usage and analytics practices
- Drive business stakeholder buy-in for data consumption, operationally and analytically.
- Responsible for recruiting, training, performance management, coaching, development and retention of staff is at its highest level. Builds bench strength, retaining and motivating high performers.
- Oversees the construction of predictive models, data pipelines and analytics workflows in the support of operational and analytics objectives. Will also meaningfully contribute to the development of these assets as necessary.
- Work with partners to translate business needs into a technical plan, identify available data, communicate findings and results, and develop implementation strategies.
- Provides consulting support to business areas around conformance to corporate policies/procedures and controls, compliance as needed.
- Understand theory and application of current and emerging analysis methods and data tooling to drive and recommend continuous improvement opportunities.
- Identify internal and external data sources, construct analytical databases and develop data pipelines that enhance business performance.
- Discuss data transformation, integration, and reporting requirements with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Will oversee the mentoring and training of team members on the usage of statistical methods, tools and development of data assets.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Job Specifications
- Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree in Information Technology, Mathematics, or Statistics preferred.
- A minimum of 8+ years hands-on experience acting as a Data Engineer, BI Analyst or Data Scientist. Based on specific team composition and goals one discipline may carry more weight than the others.
- Proven ability to develop, coach and lead technical staff
- Deep experience with analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)
- Deep experience with modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
- In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
- Adept in extracting, loading and leveraging data in data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
- Data Architecture and Infrastructure: Good understanding of data architecture principles and related infrastructure requirements, covering on-prem and Cloud platforms.
- Strong problem solving, programming and project management skills.
- Excellent ability to interpret or correlate an extensive variety of information and decompose complex analytical and technical problems and translate them into simple business solutions to be presented to key stakeholders.
- Ability to think conceptually, handle ambiguity, solve complex problems and make thoughtful recommendations.
- Excellent communications skills and abilities working with all corporate levels including senior management and external contacts.
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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.
Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.
The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.
$109,100.00-$224,000.00
Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.
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