Senior Director - Science Business Partner - AIG - New York

Job description
We are looking for top-notch business partners to join our team and create the next wave of insurance innovations.

What you will do:
-Own several critical and fast-paced initiatives affecting a global customer base; oversee projects from idea conception and strategy development to deployment, production, and operations.
-Create robust, testable, and scalable solutions that go immediately into field testing and cover the entire spectrum of execution (operations, finance, organization, technology, and legal and regulations).

-Build extensive relationships with diverse stakeholders-industry professionals of all levels and functions, including external partners at startups, universities, and other global companies.
-Solve the most challenging business problems to outpace a very diverse and active set of competitors-both established insurance companies and new entrants into the market.

What you bring to the table:

-You are insatiably curious about all aspects of problem-solving and innovation; you have the ability to quickly absorb the basics of businesses, geographies, technologies, etc.
-You spot problems and opportunities and inspire colleagues to create lean and scalable solutions; you actively consider a solution's impact on other areas of business.
-You deliver because celebrating successes with great colleagues is an integral part of your professional life.



-You are a great colleague:
o You know that it takes all kinds of minds to come up with the best solution, and you're a kind and collaborative colleague even when faced with opinions and perspectives that contradict yours.
o You invest yourself fully in delivering on your work in order to support your team.
o You're humble. You know that being able to say sorry and forgive are key components of team success in high-stakes, fast-paced environments.
o You have a long list of past colleagues who would recommend you as hands down, the best person for any complex and/or sensitive strategic initiative.



-You can zoom in and out on a topic, generating both micro- and macro-level insights.
-You believe in fact-based decision making and love to roll up your sleeves to find evidence in support of (or against) key hypotheses
-You actively seek out knowledge of other industries' leadership and leverage the diversity of problems others.


-You have a record of commitment and excellence:
o You have shown leadership in your previous professional and/or volunteer experiences.
o You have demonstrated drive by accomplishing complex, time-sensitive initiatives.
o You have shown tact and grace in sensitive situations involving multiple senior stakeholders with a broad variety of opinions.

What you can expect from us:

-Intellectually engaging and challenging projects.
-Opportunity to impact the entire businesses.
-A juxtaposition of cutting-edge solutions and traditional, cubicle-based office space.
-A clear professional development path.
-A team of highly intelligent and accomplished colleagues who value challenges of all kinds.
-Polite, but firm challenges of your hypotheses, solutions, and ideas.
-No egos. We value character and achievements, not who speaks the loudest in the room.
-A prompt and personal application process. If you're well qualified for this position, we know you have multiple options in front of you.
-And, if the process goes well and there is mutual interest, an extremely competitive offer.

Qualifications:

-Strong critical thinker with experience in "pyramid, hypothesis-driven" problem analysis and communication.
-Refined communication and influencing skills adaptable to both technical and non-technical audiences, including global senior business leaders and functional managers.
-Comfortable working on multiple large projects, given fast-changing priorities.
-Excellence in managing time and resources to drive projects to successful conclusions.
-Capability to lead complex substantive analysis, including statistical modeling on large data sets.
-Drive and experience to push teams to achieve superior performance while creating a supportive developmental environment.
-Significant (10+ years) experience across a variety of functions (such as business analytics, strategy, organization, operations, finance, technology, etc.)
-Trained or proficient in lean operations, project management.
-Familiar with or a fast learner of novel technologies.
-Master's degree, advanced education, or additional experience is advantageous.
-Cross industry or management consulting experience is a plus

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