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Manager, Digital Analytics

AT Unum Group
Unum Group

Manager, Digital Analytics

Columbia, SC

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life's moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

  • Award-winning culture
  • Inclusion and diversity as a priority
  • Performance Based Incentive Plans
  • Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
  • Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
  • Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
  • Mental health support
  • Career advancement opportunities
  • Student loan repayment options
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible work environments

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With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you're directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!

General Summary:

We are looking for a Manager, Digital Analytics with a unique blend of technical expertise, data analysis skills, and leadership capabilities. In this role, you will oversee a team responsible for building data sources, developing data pipelines, and utilizing a wide range of analytics tools and predictive models to deliver actionable, data-driven insights that translate into real business value.

This leadership role involves partnering closely with key business units to advance the strategic use of analytics across the organization. You will play a hands-on role in the implementation of analytics solutions while providing technical oversight in the creation of data assets and analytical processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and mentor a team of data and analytics professionals to deliver innovative solutions for real business applications.
Build and manage data sources and pipelines, applying advanced analytics tools to generate valuable insights.
Collaborate with cross-functional business partners to translate data-driven insights into optimized business performance.
Provide technical leadership and guidance in the development of data assets and the execution of analytics processes.
Foster strong partnerships across key business areas to drive the adoption and advancement of data analytics strategies.
If you are ready to bridge the gap between data development and business strategy to drive meaningful results, we want to hear from you!

This is a hybrid position that requires a minimum of 3 onsite days per week.
Locations: Atlanta (Sandy Springs), GA, Chattanooga TN, Columbia, SC, or Portland, ME.

Job Specifications

  • Bachelor's degree in information technology, mathematics, or statistics preferred.
  • 5+ years hands-on experience acting as a Data Engineer, BI Analyst or Data Scientist. Based on specific team composition and goals one discipline may carry more weight than the others.
  • Prior leadership and/or management experience preferred.
  • Experience with analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)
  • Experience with modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
  • In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
  • Adept in extracting, loading and leveraging data in data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
  • Data Architecture and Infrastructure: Good understanding of data architecture principles and related infrastructure requirements, covering on-prem and Cloud platforms.
  • Strong problem solving, programming and project management skills.
  • Excellent ability to interpret or correlate an extensive variety of information and decompose complex analytical and technical problems and translate them into simple business solutions to be presented to key stakeholders.
  • Ability to think conceptually, handle ambiguity, solve complex problems and make thoughtful recommendations.
  • Excellent communications skills and abilities working with all corporate levels and external contacts.
  • Demonstrated mentoring/coaching skills developing technical implementation employees

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

  • Will oversee the execution of a team's analytics strategy. Guiding their team on the usage of tools, methodologies and ensuring their team is tracking towards goals and project deadlines.
  • Oversee the implementation of best practices in support of data & analytics projects to drive consistency and standardization of data usage and analytics practices.
  • Responsible for recruiting, training, performance management, coaching, development and retention of staff within their team.
  • Oversees the construction of predictive models, data pipelines and analytics workflows in the support of operational and analytics objectives. Will also meaningfully contribute to the development of these assets as necessary.
  • Work with partners to translate business needs into a technical plan, identify available data, communicate findings and results, and develop implementation tactics. Provides consulting support to business areas around conformance to corporate policies/procedures and controls, compliance as needed.
  • Understand theory and application of current and emerging analysis methods and data tooling to drive and recommend continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Identify internal and external data sources, construct analytical databases and develop data pipelines that enhance business performance.
  • Discuss data transformation, integration, and reporting requirements with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Will oversee the mentoring and training of team members on the usage of statistical methods, tools and development of data assets.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.
$98,340.00-$201,900.00

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

Company:
Unum

Client-provided location(s): Columbia, SC, USA
Job ID: Unum_Group-504671055
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • On-Site Gym
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)