Role Overview
The Associate Director, Data Strategy & Measurement is a highly collaborative, business-facing leader responsible for helping business partners leverage reporting, measurement, data, and technology solutions to solve complex business challenges and drive informed decision-making. This role serves as a trusted consultant to Finance, Operations, Distribution, and senior business leaders, partnering to identify opportunities, define business needs, and develop innovative, scalable solutions.
What You Will Do
The successful candidate combines strong business acumen, consulting skills, and technical knowledge to deliver practical solutions that create business value and improve business outcomes. This role requires an individual who can effectively bridge business and technical teams, bringing both strategic thinking and hands-on problem solving to complex initiatives.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The Associate Director, Data Strategy & Measurement will lead the development and enhancement of reporting, dashboards, measurement frameworks, and business performance solutions. This role will partner with leaders to define meaningful metrics, KPIs, and measurement approaches that support business objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- MBA or other advanced degree preferred
- 10+ years of experience in reporting, measurement, business consulting, data strategy, information technology, finance, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success partnering with business leaders to solve complex business problems through reporting, data, technology, and process improvement solutions.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving both business and technology stakeholders.
- Experience developing reporting, measurement, and business performance solutions.
- Experience supporting or leading data transformation, technology modernization, or process improvement initiatives.
- Insurance and/or financial services experience preferred.
- Consulting, project management, or change leadership experience preferred.
- Strong technical aptitude with experience leveraging data, reporting, and technology platforms to solve business problems.
- Strong SQL skills with the ability to query, analyze, and validate complex datasets.
- Experience working with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, or similar cloud-based environments.
- Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or comparable platforms.
- Understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, reporting automation, and solution design principles.
- Experience partnering with Technology teams to deliver reporting and data solutions.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and technology delivery processes.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect reporting and measurement solutions to business outcomes.
- Excellent consulting, relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to translate business needs into practical, scalable solutions.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
- Strong program and project management capabilities with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
Benefits
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave
- Medical coverage
- Company paid life and AD&D insurance
- Disability programs
- Partially paid sabbatical program
- 401(k) employer match
- Stock purchase options
- Employer-funded retirement account
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