
Data Scientist – Insurance Modeling
Allstate
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $80,000 - $136,625 per year
About the role
- Uses best practices and traditional statistical/modeling techniques to develop and maintain rating, economic and other models as necessary and in consideration of the business goals of the model
- Provide tools, educate and support state teams in the implementation of models and other decision-making support
- Follows appropriate analyses to be conducted for projects to make recommendations to achieve corporate goals
- With minimal direction plans, implements, manages, and/or contributes on projects that are up to moderate complexity and are small-to moderate scale using accepted project management standards
- Forecasts short-term and long-term deliverables with assistance
- Tracks own plan performance and project timeline and communicates and presents project status
- Ensures project controls are in place throughout the lifecycle of the project within own tasks
- Supports the development/ design of new plans, programs, processes, products up to moderate complexity
- Assists in the development of communication strategies and materials to support new plans, programs, processes, products; solicits input from stakeholders
- Participates in the evaluation of procedures and processes regularly and makes observations or suggests improvements
- Contributes to market share growth and profitability by recommending changes to products, pricing, risk management
- Understands standard market specific implications of business strategies
- Assures proper execution of regulatory/legislative practices for Product Management
- Understands and follows internal and external compliance requirements/standards
- Trains/coaches team members or peers and actively shares expertise with peers
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree – preferably in related field of study such as finance, math/applied math, statistics/applied statistics, economics
- Proven insurance business knowledge – for example, understands economics of insurance, familiarity with personal lines ratemaking and rating plans, etc.
- Several years of experience working in personal or commercial lines of insurance
- Aptitude and strong interest in statistical modeling techniques such as linear regression, logistic regression, GLM, GAM, GBM, etc. - some modeling experience is helpful but not required
- Standard knowledge in the use of data sources and applications to conduct research
- Strong technical aptitude, such as programming experience with Python, R, SAS, or SQL required.
- Working knowledge of insurance regulation and related business constraints
- Has an understanding of current industry and professional standards/ environment to impact decisions and indicate requirements
- Can analyze data and review analysis from others and identify and resolve basic data issues
- Intermediate computer proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Possesses working knowledge of policies and procedures in management or other technical fields
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively collaborate with multi-disciplinary groups and all organizational levels
- High level organizational and project management skills in order to handle multiple concurrent assignments in a timely manner and to monitor processes throughout a team or department
- Strong decision-making skills
- Works effectively in a team environment
Benefits
- Support for those seeking the Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CSPA) credential
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
statistical modeling techniqueslinear regressionlogistic regressionGLMGAMGBMPythonRSASSQL
Soft Skills
strong written communication skillsstrong verbal communication skillscollaborationorganizational skillsproject management skillsdecision-making skillsteamworkanalytical skillscoachingeducating