What are the responsibilities and job description for the AVP, Data Scientist position at QBE?
Primary Details
Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Employee At QBE, our purpose is to give people the confidence to achieve their ambitions inside and outside of work. From development opportunities, to flexible work options and highly competitive reward and benefits packages, we understand the importance of living our values when it comes to our people. Everything we do at QBE is underpinned by our company’s cultural elements – because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference.This opportunity is accountable for managing a team of modelling and data science partners and provide technical subject matter expertise on work products, including study design, research methodology, and deployment of statistical approaches.
Primary Responsibilities
Required Education
Required Experience
Preferred Competencies/Skills
Preferred Education Specifics
Preferred Experience
Preferred Licenses/Certifications
Preferred Knowledge
- Partner with analytics manager to size analytical opportunities and create delivery plans to ensure a positive commercial return against investments made while managing relationships with offshore analytics team
- Manage and develop implementation plans for analytical projects including required resources, data needs and communication to key stakeholders and providing subject matter expertise
- Implement continuous improvement strategy by monitoring, reviewing and updating existing data science methods and procedures to ensure use of best practices for recommending profitable business development opportunities
- Collaborate on the development and implementation of analytical models to identify fraud, drive recoveries and renewals, drive profitable growth, improve underwriting, pricing and claims performance
- Assist in the development of commercial propositions involving the use of analytics within insurance core function through own analysis, prior experience, research and development
- Partner with information management leadership to extract new feature sets and proactively identify and classify new feature sets
- Work with analytics partners to build and put models into production, quantify and analyze model performance; guide and oversee model refreshing requirements
- Encourage an analytical mindset and engage in conversation with the business around “the art of the possible using data science”, explore data from a modelling perspective, and perform initial exploratory data analysis to assess business value
- Presents analyses that are clear, well organized, and aimed at appropriate audiences; anticipates questions and directs attention to critical assumptions and findings with the communication of results demonstrating an in-depth subject knowledge and confidence in analytic conclusions
- Ensure model implementations conform to regulatory requirements and produce clear documentation to support
- Positively promote the department, division and company as a whole, in order to maximize brand leverage and develop team profile
Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Required Experience
- 7 years relevant experience
Preferred Competencies/Skills
- Utilize accurate and thorough approach to budgetary information gathering and proposal preparation
- Utilize motivational, inspirational and enthusiastic approach to team leading and management
- Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
- Identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
- Apply business and financial acumen
- Implement planning to prioritize, organize, measure work
- Influence team to adopt recommendations
- Adapt and be flexible in a complex changing environment
- Choose a solution to a problem even in ambiguous or difficult situations
- Clearly and confidently convey information to a wide audience
- Keep an open-mind, consider unique approaches and be open to change and considerable variety in the workplace
- Establish a high degree of trust and credibility with others
Preferred Education Specifics
- Degree qualified (or equivalent) in econometrics, mathematics, statistics or related discipline
Preferred Experience
- Significant data management experience, gained from within financial services sector, ideally within general insurance
- Track record of implementing models that deliver significant sustained business impact
- Experience working in Big Data Technology (Hadoop, NoSQL DB, Spark and Parquet)
Preferred Licenses/Certifications
- Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CAS) or other data science related certifications
Preferred Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of statistical / data mining methods and application in a business environment
- Expert understanding of Data Science domain, statistical and analytical model development and implementations, proficient in machine learning techniques and related disciplines
- Expert understanding of data modelling techniques, tools/language - R, Scala, Python, SAS etc.
- Advanced knowledge of visualization tools like PowerBI, Tableau etc.
- Expert knowledge of Property & Casualty insurance products and market trends
QBE Cultural DNA
Everything we do at QBE is underpinned by our DNA (which interlinks seven cultural elements) – because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference. We expect all employees to role model and inspire the right behaviors that link to our cultural elements:
- We are customer-centered
- We are technical experts
- We are diverse
- We are fast-paced
- We are courageous
- We are accountable
- We are a team
All employees are expected to adhere to QBE’s Code of Ethics and Conduct and apply sound risk management practices
US Only - Travel Frequency
- Infrequent (approximately 1-4 trips annually)
US Only - Physical Demands
- General office jobs: Work is generally performed in an office environment in which there is not substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions. Must have the ability to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time. Must be able to operate basic office equipment including telephone, headset and computer. Incumbent must be able to lift basic office equipment up to 20 lbs.
US Only - Disclaimer
- To successfully perform this job, the individual must be able to perform each essential job responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities.
Job Type
- Manager
Global Disclaimer
- The duties listed in this job description do not limit the assignment of work. They are not to be construed as a complete list of the duties normally to be performed in the position or those occasionally assigned outside an employee’s normal duties. Our Group Code of Ethics and Conduct addresses the responsibilities we all have at QBE to our company, to each other and to our customers, suppliers, communities and governments. It provides clear guidance to help us to make good judgement calls.
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.
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