Senior Innovation Analyst
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Senior Innovation Analyst leading cross-functional innovation projects for Hanover Insurance. Assessing emerging technologies, market trends, competitors, and Insurtech opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Lead execution of innovation projects and realize expected outcomes and learning through cross-functional teams
- Monitor project status and apply project-management best practices to manage resources and scope
- Communicate major milestones, identify and manage project risks, develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans, and provide direction to project teams
- Conduct regular status meetings with key stakeholders
- Conduct market intelligence to identify trends, opportunities, competitive advantages, and threats
- Secure cross-functional and cross-divisional stakeholder alignment and engagement
- Surface business challenges and dependencies and implement solutions
- Establish a market-sensitive research agenda for critical operational topics and functions
- Conduct vendor briefings, web surveys, and end-user interviews to collect primary market intelligence
- Track technology changes and industry trends and assess their impact on processes
- Build relationships with external organizations and end-user partners
- Collect and analyze market and competitor intelligence from internal and external sources
- Assess emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and Insurtech solutions
- Facilitate innovation workshops, design-thinking sessions, and experimentation activities to identify, prototype, and validate opportunities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 4-8 years of experience conducting and executing business and/or IT projects using structured methodologies such as agile
- Prior Property and Casualty insurance preferred but not required
- Excellent verbal and written communication capabilities, including storytelling, writing, and presenting
- Ability to understand “the big picture”
- Creativity and innovation
- Ability to communicate concepts, ideas, feelings, opinions, and conclusions so others understand or are persuaded to act
- Collaboration skills and ability to obtain shared commitment
- Ability to influence others persuasively and build support
- Relationship-building skills across all levels
- Ability to build expertise quickly in unfamiliar subject areas
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently
- Strong work ethic and sense of ownership and responsibility
- Interest in and familiarity with technology
- Effective collaboration as a team player
- Comfort operating in an ambiguous, startup-like environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, data visualization tools such as Power BI, collaboration technologies, and emerging AI-enabled productivity tools
- Expert understanding of market research techniques and methodologies in data collection desired
Benefits:
- Hybrid/Flex work arrangement or fully remote
- Full-time, exempt role


















