Business Analytics - Senior Consultant

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"When you click the "apply now" button on this screen, you’ll be directed to the Allstate careers site. You'll still be looking at Arity jobs, but because we were founded by Allstate, we share the same application system."

 

Arity is a technology company founded by The Allstate Corporation focused on making transportation safer, smarter and more useful for everyone. We collect and analyze massive amounts of data to help our partners better predict risk and understand how people move. The Arity Platform is built on billions of miles of historical driving data with more than one million active telematics connections and 10+ years of data directly from cars.

Job Description

Arity

Arity is a new technology company that uses advanced predictive analytics to help partners evaluate risk and make sense of everyday experiences. Our proprietary algorithms analyze billions of data points, distilling the flood of information into simple, actionable insights. Chief among these is the Arity Driving Score, which models billions of miles of driving and claims data to assess risk, gauging each driver’s likelihood of an event.

Founded by The Allstate Corporation, an organization synonymous with protection and preparation, Arity is born from a long-standing commitment to deep customer understanding and future-focused innovation. Fueled by the curiosity of a startup, our expertise begins with connected car, providing applied insights that meet insurer and transportation/mobility company needs and enhance driver safety, connectivity and value.

Don’t miss this opportunity to join a team where your innovative thinking and technology skills can improve the safety of those on the road and further enhance the car-ownership experience.

The Role

As a Business Analytics Senior Consultant, you will join an ambitious team seeking ways to harness Arity analytics and sensor data to help ride share, car share, subscription, peer to peer, fleet telematics, and shared-autonomous platforms solve commercial insurance challenges. You will be responsible for delivering data and services to bridge gaps and provide capabilities through various insurance solutions. This includes gaining empathy for players within the ecosystem, managing strategic product relationships, and executing on your product strategy. Critical thinking and problem solving is paramount to success in this role. To be effective in this role you will need to be a systems thinker with true sense of ownership for your products, your team, and your work.

Key Responsibilities

  • Successfully builds and maintains relationships with business stakeholders both internal and external of Arity
  • Works to identify and engage stakeholders
  • Able to connect people and existing/ongoing work to business problems
  • Starts to work with business partners to contribute to strategic vision
  • Understands the business in their focus area and how potential actions will influence the business
  • With no direction develops appropriate analytical solutions for business problems
  • Leads moderately complex medium impact projects from ideation to delivery in an Agile framework, with an emphasis on measurable, value add deliverables
  • Able to contribute to high complexity projects
  • Communicates clearly throughout the project process to all parties involved about scope, timeline, issues and any changes to them
  • Ensures partnership through the development process to in order to ensure the successful transition of moderately complex research to an operational state within the business unit
  • Documents all communications, processes, data and considerations involved in the project
  • Uses a variety of data sources to better understand business results
  • Identifies potential out of pattern elements in our business results and drives action based off of the information

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Experience

  • Bachelor Degree: Business or Technical
  • Intermediate:  Knowledge of insurance business operations.
  • Beginner/Intermediate Customer Focus:  Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions, and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
  • Beginner/Intermediate Analytical Thinking:  Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis and the ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve the problems in the best interest of the business.
  • Intermediate Business Acumen: Knowledge, insight, and understanding of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. 
  • Beginner/Intermediate Business Analytics: Knowledge of technologies, techniques and practices for the evaluation of business performance data; ability to analyze business performance using statistical methods to justify and drive future business planning decisions.
  • Intermediate Consulting:  Knowledge of techniques, roles, and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients, both internal and external of Arity; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
  • Intermediate Decision Making and Critical Thinking:  Understanding of the issues related to the decision-making process; ability to analyze situations fully and accurately, and reach productive decisions.
  • Beginner/Intermediate Effective Communications:  Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
  • Beginner/Intermediate:  Microsoft Office Suite
  • Beginner/Intermediate:  SQL, R, Python, Tableau or other analytical tools

Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.

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What are Arity Perks + Benefits

Arity Benefits Overview

Arity was founded by The Allstate Corporation, but you’ll be working for—and at—Arity. It’s the best of both worlds. You’ll get access to the full suite of Allstate benefits and have the ability to work with some of the brightest minds in technology. We're a fully remote organization, too, giving you the option to work from anywhere in the continental US. Whether that's your home office or local coffee shop, we've got what it takes to keep you connected.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Team based strategic planning
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
We also provide a cash balance pension benefit, at no cost, to eligible employees based on their eligible compensation and years of service with the company. Employees are vested after 3 years.
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Arity offers up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year for any employee eligible under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Adoption Assistance
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

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