Senior Research & Development Analyst

Our client provides a broad range of insurance and insurance-related products and services for individual consumers as well as businesses. They are poised for dramatic growth over the next couple years. They presently offer an opportunity to join their dynamic organization in North Carolina as Senior Research & Development Analyst. Our client is looking for a graduate degree holding statistician with strong theoretical knowledge combined with broad practical experience to bridge the gap between cutting edge research and detail oriented application to the auto insurance business. In this exciting industry policy loss cost prediction and customer churn, driven by price, marketing, procedure and competitor action, along with regulatory conditions, all merge to determine bottom line results with a unified statistical approach to optimal control being rare at best, highly sought after and potentially spectacular.

Senior Research & Development Analyst Responsibilities:

Coordinate, assist with, and execute analytical projects, in support of the priorities and objectives of the Product Development and Pricing departments.

Utilize advanced math, data mining, statistical, and actuarial techniques as part of that analysis.

Build insurance loss, conversion, retention and price optimization models and participate in all phases of implementation.

Coordinate and communicate with Product/Pricing staff, and business leaders in other functions.

Retrieve and manipulate large datasets using database and analytic software.

Provide technical leadership to Pricing department.

Bring new ideas, methods & approaches into the business. Provide expertise on current industry practice.

Senior Research & Development Analyst Qualifications:

Graduate degree in statistics.

Strong analytical skills, including advanced statistical modeling and data mining techniques. Highly developed organizational skills.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Generalized linear models (GLMs/GAMs).

Programming proficiency with SAS software in PC, mainframe and UNIX environments.

5+ years' related work experience.

Working knowledge of the automobile insurance business

Please contact Scot Dickerson for immediate confidential consideration and additional details. Email: sdickerson@insurance-csg.com Phone: 515-273-9991 Fax 515-440-2347 See our website at, www.csgrecruiting.com/ins_opportunities.htm for a complete listing of nationwide opportunities.

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