Senior Data Analytics Consultant - Underwriting Portfolio Management

CNA

Chicago, Illinois

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence, Business Processes, Business Skills, Business Support, Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Consulting, Cross-Functional, Customer/Client Research, Data Analysis, Decision Support, Distribution Control, Economics, Finance, Insurance, Interpersonal Skills, Investment Management, Leadership, Mathematics, Microsoft Office, Multitasking, Operational Audit, Organizational Skills, Performance Management, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Profit & Loss Analysis, Project/Program Management, Property and Casualty Insurance, Reporting Dashboards, Reporting Skills, Resource Management, Risk, Risk Management, SQL (Structured Query Language), Sales Prospecting, Scorecarding, Statistics, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Support, Time Tracking, Training/Teaching, Underwriting, Value Chain Model, Workflow Analysis
LOCATION
Chicago, Illinois
POSTED
18 days ago

You have a clear vision of where your career can go. And we have the leadership to help you get there. At CNA, we strive to create a culture in which people know they matter and are part of something important, ensuring the abilities of all employees are used to their fullest potential. 

Consider joining CNA Insurance’s Portfolio Management Data Analytics team, which partners closely with Underwriting and business leadership to drive strategy execution, accountability, and profitable growth through analytics and insight. This team leverages data and analytics synthesized from across the organization to ensure underwriting strategies are effectively translated into measurable actions and outcomes.

In this Senior Consultant role, you will leverage advanced analytical expertise, technical skills, and strong business partnership to drive significant impact across a variety of commercial insurance products. You will lead smaller scale initiatives to implement automated scorecards, AI enabled insights, and individual account scenario analysis tools that support underwriters in planning and executing CNA’s global underwriting strategies as part of a cohesive execution platform.

You will translate underwriting strategy into leading indicators and operational key results, and design analytics and BI solutions that support ongoing performance management and accountability. The role also applies emerging AI capabilities—such as prompt driven analysis, text summarization, and decision support—to accelerate insight generation and enhance analytical workflows. The team leverages CNA’s enterprise data across exposure, policy attributes, distribution, risk control, operations, and claims to inform decision making across the underwriting value chain.

This position provides the opportunity to work directly with senior leadership and to collaborate cross functionally with underwriting, analytics, and operational partners to embed analytics and AI enabled insights into core business processes.

Ideal candidates have a property and casualty insurance background and are skilled with SQL and applying AI enabled analytics tools and prompt engineering techniques.

This position works a hybrid work schedule at one of our CNA office locations including Chicago, IL; Radnor, PA, Charlotte, NC or New York City, NY.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:

  • Leads smaller scale projects that involve the analysis of moderately complex to complex modeling for the purpose of quantifying the performance of the business area and evaluating operational changes. Uses technical expertise to provide business insights and recommendations to support business improvements. Reports findings to Senior Management.
  • Interprets data and identifies relevant analyses; Monitors trends over time and provides actionable insights to determine actionable outcomes on a business area. Makes recommendations using technical experience, judgment, and precedents.
  • Builds complex dashboards (using excel and/or Proprietary Software) and prepares reports for Senior Management.
  • Acts as a technical resource and regularly identifies opportunities to leverage new IT solutions in support of analytics and reporting objectives.
  • Works independently, receiving minimal guidance; acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience by providing instruction, guidance, and advice.
  • May actively partner with other analytical teams across the organization and/or participate in special projects.
  • May actively partner with other analytical teams across the organization and/or participate in special projects.
  • Responds to and fulfills adhoc data requests.

Reporting Relationship
Typically Director or above.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

  • Solid knowledge of core functions of an insurance company and general insurance.
  • Solid technical knowledge of financial, economical and statistical practices, procedures and principles, which may include a specialty area of the business.
  • Solid interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Effectively interacts with all levels of CNA's internal and external business partners.
  • Solid analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills to effectively resolve complex situations and issues.
  • Solid project management, organization and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple projects effectively and lead teams.
  • Ability to solve issues with a sense of urgency; utilizes and manages the available resources to make informed decisions and achieve superior results.
  • Ability to creatively and effectively manage through ambiguous and challenging problems, leads through change and takes appropriate level of risk.
  • Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and other business-related software.
     

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, or related field.
  • Typically a minimum of seven years of related work experience.

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In certain jurisdictions, CNA is legally required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. In District of Columbia,California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois,Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Washington,the national base pay range for this job level is $72,000 to $141,000 annually. Salary determinations are based on various factors, including but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals.  For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, please visit cnabenefits.com.


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About the Company

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CNA

CNA's approach to research is a modern iteration of the Newtonian principle that complex, dynamic processes are best understood through direct observation of events and people. That was the methodology CNA analysts first applied in the 1940s when they pioneered the field of operations research by helping the Navy address the German U-boat threat. Not content to study the problem from afar, this small group of MIT scientists insisted on deploying with Navy forces in order to observe operations and collect the data needed for meaningful analyses. Their groundbreaking work, and the anti-submarine warfare equations it produced, set a standard for operations research methods that CNA has maintained for 75 years. Today, with more than 500 professionals at our headquarters and 50 researchers in the field, CNA still takes a multi-disciplinary, real-world approach to our work. On-site analysts carefully observe all aspects of a process—people, decisions, actions, consequences—and then collaborate with a headquarters-based research team to assess data and arrive at findings. CNA's objective, empirical research and analysis helps decision makers develop sound policies, make better-informed decisions, and manage programs more effectively. Our work, which in its early decades focused solely on defense-related matters, has grown to include investigation and analysis of a broad range of national security, defense, and public interest issues including education, homeland security and air traffic management. Through our Center for Naval Analyses and Institute for Public Research, we provide public-sector organizations with the tools they need to tackle the complex challenges of making government more efficient and keeping our country safe and strong.
COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Other/Not Classified
FOUNDED
1940
WEBSITE
https://www.cna.org/