Data Scientist Assistant Manager Insurance Modeling at Allstate

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.
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Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection. We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.
Job Summary:
This position is on the Modeling & Major Initiatives team within PAAS and is responsible for executing and/or leading predictive modeling solutions and rating plan developments in support of pricing insurance business. This includes utilizing accepted actuarial and statistical standards, methodologies, & knowledge, as well as, developing new predictive modeling algorithms and tools to make data-driven business decisions. This role works closely with pricing management and key business partners to develop and execute appropriate pricing, modeling and product strategies of moderate to high complexity to support business goals.
Key Responsibilities:
Uses best practices to develop statistical & actuarial techniques to build models and/or tools that address business needs and to improve the accuracy of our data and data-driven decisions
Provides thought and/or technical leadership, including contributions to improvement, development and innovation, and often serves as a subject matter expert 
Utilizes effective project planning techniques to break down moderately complex predictive modeling projects into tasks and ensure deadlines are kept
Reviews, evaluates and communicates appropriateness of modeling techniques and results to team and leadership to ensure these are well understood and incorporated into business processes. With coaching, develops and executes communication strategy, keeping stakeholders informed and finding opportunities to influence the direction of work.
Responsible for selecting, reviewing, using and ensuring quality of data used to perform pricing analyses, in both modeling and non-modeling applications
Leverages understanding of insurance business, products, markets and regulatory environment to influence pricing & modeling strategies and business decisions
Identifies languages and tools that can bring efficiencies or needed techniques to the team
Mentor and/or supervise less experienced talent
	 
Preferred Qualifications:
Education and Experience
Master’s or PhD degree – preferably in related field of study such as math/applied math, statistics/applied statistics
3+ years of related experience within the field of data science and predictive modeling
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
None 
Functional Skills
Experience in using statistical modeling and/or machine learning techniques to build models, as well as, evaluate models
Advanced knowledge in the use and ability to learn a wide variety of tools, data sources and computer applications
Ability to code in one or more programming languages and manipulate large, complex data sets
Advanced communication skills, including the ability to present written and verbal interpretations of highly specialized terms and data to others with different levels of expertise
Demonstrated Analytic Agility and ability to quickly learn and switch topics
Advanced product, price, risk management and insurance regulation knowledge, including professional standards of actuarial/statistical techniques
Manage people/projects in a team environment, including ability to train, develop and mentor analysts
	 
Compensation offered for this role is $97,000 to $130,000 and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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