Sr. Analyst/ Product Research Consultant

Company: Liberty Mutual Insurance
Location: Somerville
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Who we are:To win in a world of accelerated change, it is critical to create the protected space to incubate new ideas, rapidly test concepts in market, and accelerate the delivery of critical insights and capabilities to the business. Since 2016, Solaria Labs has been testing into new spaces and reinventing Global Retail Markets (GRM) offerings for the future, and just this year, Solaria expanded to become an enterprise-wide incubation function within the Enterprise Strategy & Innovation team. This change will enable us to leverage Solaria's capabilities across our businesses and functions to test and learn in a way that reduces uncertainty, de-risks future investments and limits distraction for the core business.The Insights & Experimentation Enablement team inspires and empowers employees across the organization to experiment within their roles. We design, build, and manage programs that provide Liberty employees with unique opportunities to innovate and think creatively about their roles and key business problems. With Solaria?s expansion, our goal is to make these programs available to employees across the enterprise, while exploring new program opportunities!We also play an integral role in supporting the day-to-day strategic operations for Solaria Labs. A key part of our priorities this year will be owning an internal and external innovation communications strategy to support Liberty's aspiration to be a best place to work with a high-performing, equitable, and inclusive culture.About the Role:In this role, you will help execute our cultural programs and support the expansion of these programs to employees across the enterprise. To share a few examples of the programs you would help manage:

• Innovation Experience Program: Our short-term assignment program designed to provide employees with a fully immersive experience spending 12 weeks working on a project in Solaria
• Design Thinking Bootcamps: Our day sessions designed to teach employees about key design-thinking and hypothesis-based testing methodologies in a hands-on way
• Innovation Challenges: Our platform to enable ideation at scale. Employees can brainstorm and submit ideas around a key business challenge. The top ideas are pitched to a panel of leaders, with the winning idea getting prioritized!
• Solaria Blast: Our 12-week experimentation program that aims to accelerate core objectives and explore future-oriented concepts by driving learnings out of tangible in market experiments.You will also be supporting Solaria's operations, including supporting our communication strategy, executive reporting and planning, and lab-wide activities, events, and forums. You will have the opportunity to partner across all teams within the lab, including working with portfolio management, user experience, and data science. This is a great opportunity to help shape the vision and all aspects of day-to-day operations for a Fortune 100 Incubation team!Responsibilities:
  • Foster a more innovative culture across Liberty Mutual by supporting the execution and expansion of various cultural programs
  • Support Solaria Blast sprints, partnering with cross-functional teams to drive experimentation in alignment with key business challenges
  • Support our communications plan, thinking creatively about how we message and share our perspective on emerging trends and our portfolio of work
  • Identify opportunities to increase collaboration and establish common processes, frameworks, and tools across our global, cross-functional team
  • Assist in the creation of executive and partner presentations and reporting
  • Lead special projects, working cross-functionally to drive alignment and outcomes on key areas of focusPlease note this posting is open to Boston or remote. Compensation will vary based on location, experience and education.
    • Bachelor's degree in business, innovation, or similar field
    • Minimum of 4-6 years strategy, innovation, operations, analytical or other relevant experience
    • Highly collaborative and strong interpersonal skills
    • Demonstrated experience partnering and gaining alignment with cross-functional teams
    • Strong strategic, analytical, and critical thinking skills. The ability to break down data and complex problems, surface insights and recommend solutions
    • Effective written and oral communication skills
    • Exceptional project management skills and detail oriented
    • Positive attitude and willingness to wear multiple hats
    • Thrives in a fast-paced environment with some ambiguity
    • Preferred location is Boston but open to Remote for this roleAt Liberty Mutual, our purpose is to help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow. That's why we provide an environment focused on openness, inclusion, trust and respect. Here, you'll discover our expansive range of roles, and a workplace where we aim to help turn your passion into a rewarding profession.
      
      Liberty Mutual has proudly been recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by Great Place to Work - US for the past several years. We were also selected as one of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT" on IDG's Insider Pro and Computerworld's 2020 list. For many years running, we have been named by Forbes as one of America's Best Employers for Women and one of America's Best Employers for New Graduates as well as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity. To learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion please visit: https://jobs.libertymutualgroup.com/diversity-inclusion
      
      We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits
      
      Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
      Bachelor's Degree
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