Senior Data Advisor (Hybrid or Remote)

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs. 

Join us and play your part in something special!

Claims Business Intelligence and Analytics Team
This area is responsible for creating a data-driven culture, through the
development and execution of our organizational data analytics strategy,
combing people, processes, and technology to deliver value from data to the
Claims organization. We enable self-service analytics while focusing on
innovations, automation, efficiency gains, and agility to support organizational
growth and Markel’s overall strategy.

As a Senior Data Advisor, you will be working side-by-side with “data specialists” such as data engineers and software engineers, as well as business leaders across Claims. Successful candidates need to possess both business and technical backgrounds and share a growth mindset and a desire to constantly grow their data and analytics skills through continuous learning and 
development. At Markel’s Claims Organization, we expect our analytics 
consultants to do more than just design visual representations of data.

Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to: 

• Collaborate with the senior leadership team in Claims organization to support operational needs with data and analytical solutions 
• Design, develop and implement predictive models to automate various aspects of claims lifecycle.
• Utilize LLMs to enhance text-based claims data analysis.
• Expected to understand Claims’ needs and goals, translating them into technical needs including but not limited to data aggregations, data calculation, analytical design, and the ultimate goal of data consumption for and by the business partners
• Consult business partners on how they can execute their strategies successfully using data analytics and data automated solutions 
• Partner closely with teams across the Claims to gain a full understanding of analytical and/or reporting objectives to provide self-service data tools and/or reporting 
• Through proactive collaboration with business partners, assist data engineers in creating clean, reliable, and scalable “single-source-of-truth” data sets, to address data issues in upstream systems, document data lineage, business logic, and KPI definitions. 
• Manage a broad stakeholder base, prioritize effectively, and deliver at the speed of relevance 
• Be an evangelist to promote understanding and usage of data-driven decision making to fully leverage the power of data and automation
• Expected to keep up with emerging trends and technologies in big data and analytics and keep abreast of latest related research 
• Mentor and train other less senior team members on business intelligence and analytics 
• Be comfortable communicating with a non-technical audience 
• Excellent problem-framing, problem-solving and agile project management skills, willingness to be flexible and adapt to change quickly 
• Report and monitor progress towards team goals
• On a daily basis assist with administrative duties related to access, sharing and consuming data visualizations and/or reports

Baseline Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, mathematics, engineering or other quantitative fields
• 3+ years of data analytics and business intelligence experience
• Project management, agile, and mentoring/teaching others experience preferred
• Insurance industry knowledge is strongly preferred
• Advanced knowledge of best practices for designing meaningful dashboards and SQL logic
• Strategic and tactical problem-solving skills
• Driven by a strong sense of curiosity and creativity
• Design theory experience preferred
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data, dispersed data with various formats, sizes and/or locations
• Experienced in leading and coordinating multifunctional activities to support dashboard design between various business product lines across claims organization 
• Ability to “tell a story” with data visualization and translating millions of records into meaningful and actionable metrics 
• An understanding of the data engineering discipline is a plus 
• Excellent interpersonal skills, relationship building, and project management and agile skills
• High level of attention to detail

US Work Authorization

• US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.

Pay information:

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors. The national average salary for the Sr. Data Advisor is $85,000 - $110,000 with 25% bonus potential.

Who we are: 

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world. 

 

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better 

 

We enjoy the everyday | We think further 

 

What’s in it for you: 

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.  

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.  

• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.  

• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.   

• Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.    

 

Are you ready to play your part? 

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. 

 

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