Business Analytics Consultant

Business Analytics Consultant

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.

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

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:

Business Analytics Consultants (BACs) use a mix of business consulting, technical, and solution implementation skills to help Allstate maximize (and accelerate) the business value of data & analytics. BACs work alongside data, analytics, business, and technology stakeholders as integrators and translators to effectively, efficiently, and consistently implement work across the company.

The BAC Sr Consultant I position is a senior consultant position that will use business and technical acumen to be responsible for coordinating and managing the development of analytical solutions and processes in order to drive business decisions and solutions for the business vertical in which they are aligned to. The Sr Consultant is also responsible for providing high complexity analytical and data driven solutions to key business stakeholders in order to address potential business problems and demonstrate value. Additionally, the BAC Sr Consultant will be exposed to the ins and outs of developing data strategies for predictive analytic applications, fundamental skills of big data, data science and statistical learning methods, and agile delivery methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Works with business partners to contribute to data and analytics action in order to aid in their strategic direction and understand how potential actions will influence their business results. 
  • Drives activities to develop strategies and identify high priority initiatives to deliver and execute on the operating plan.
  • Provides direction as to where data and analytics could be leveraged in order to make key business decisions. Has a solid understating of how the business works, what their operational processes look like, and where data and analytics could be leveraged in order to make more effective data-driven decisions.
  • Contributes to high complexity projects/products and drives moderately complex medium impact projects/products from ideation to delivery in an Agile framework, with an emphasis on measurable, value add deliverables.
  • Drives clear product/project communications throughout the project/product process to all stakeholders involved regarding scope, timeline, issues, and any revisions to them. 
  • Drives and maintains partnerships through the development process to in order to ensure the successful transition of moderately complex research to an operational state within the business unit.
  • With a deep knowledge of data visualization, develops solutions using tools such as Tableau in order to effectively communicate and drive the translation of data and analytics insights in business terms to key stakeholders.
  • Support the Data Scientists with high-level model design by providing business requirements, and providing an understanding of data domains and their impact to the business 
  • Drive the creation of data visualization tools to actively monitor and identify potential our of pattern elements in our business results.
     

Education and Experience:

  • 3 or more years of experience
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Functional Skills:

  • Possess strong quantitative and analytical thinking skills
  • Demonstrate business acumen to drive consulting efforts with business clients
  • Experience with analytical tools, such as SQL, R, Python and Tableau
  • Ability to make sound decisions utilizing problem solving approaches and decision frameworks
  • Ability to synthesize large amounts of complex data into meaningful conclusions and recommendations to business clients
  • Effectively communicate concepts, tools and techniques in order to drive alignment and decision making with senior leaders  
  • Demonstrates an understanding of Allstate systems and data in order to provide guidance to business clients
  • Advanced ability to manage multiple priorities given aggressive timelines and comfortable performing in a fast paced, dynamic and ambiguous business environment 
  • Ability to drive data and technical projects
  • Excellent presentation skills; persuasively presenting ideas to multiple levels of stakeholders, including senior leaders  
     

Compensation offered for this role is $68,500.00-$121,375.00 per year 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.

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. For a full description of Allstate’s benefits, visit allstate.jobs/benefits/

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