Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Who Are We?Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

• Deliver current-state monthly status reporting. Partner with data owners across the enterprise to ensure common definitions, meaningful commentary, and coordinated and timely data collection.
• Participate in strategy development, monitoring, and reporting.
• Perform research and current state analysis: define challenges and pain points.
• Ensure data integrity and reasonability.
• Rationalize & optimize existing reporting routines. Recognize & identify opportunities for efficiencies and continuous improvement and make recommendations for streamlining to leadership.
• Understand current data sources, data flow, and data management tools. Remain abreast of future solutions and associated data, analytics, and reporting capabilities.
• Perform moderately complex strategic analysis, business analysis and cost/benefit analysis.
• Support the transformation of the business strategy into tactical plans for execution.
• Provide facts and analysis to assist the leadership team in solving complex problems.
• Assists in building the storylines and presentations to communicate current & future state, gap analysis, and recommendations.
• Provide support to senior team members for execution of various planning and prioritization initiatives.
• May facilitate business meetings with the leadership team, and/or assist in preparing agendas and content for meetings.
• Respond to requests for time-sensitive strategic information and analysis.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Solid understanding of technology fundamentals.
• Strong facilitation, conflict resolution, problem solving, and influencing skills.
• Strong organization and communication skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies,
• Strong communication skills; verbal, written and platform skills.
• Adept at relationship-building, maintaining effective partnerships, and influencing without formal authority.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Knowledge of financial analysis.
• Proficient in the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework.
• Experience with data visualization tools (i.e. Qlik, Tableau, MicroStrategy, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail oriented, self-directed, and accountable.
• Project management skills.
• Knowledge of property casualty insurance.
• Strong understanding of insurance industry and market dynamics.
• MBA preferred.

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5 years business experience.

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.