Director, Value Stream Data & Analytics - Products

Our Story Unum Technology Centre in Carlow serves as a strategic software development and IT services centre supporting Unum, a leading provider of income protection in the US. Our team of IT professionals build solutions and critical business applications to digitally transform the way we do business. This position is part of Unum’s Value Stream transformation initiative and is open to current Unum employees only. This is a campus-based role. Current remote and field-based Unum employees may apply and will be considered in accordance with company policy. We are hiring one Director, Value Stream (VS) Data and Analytic position under Gail Cooper in Products. The Director, Value Stream Data & Analytics is responsible for defining and leading the end-to-end analytics strategy for a value stream, ensuring data is used to drive prioritization, measure value, and inform decision-making at all levels. This role moves beyond delivering analysis to shaping how value is defined, tracked, and optimized across the value stream. Working closely with Value Stream leadership, Product, Finance, and Enablement partners, the Director establishes KPI frameworks, governs data standards, and ensures consistent, enterprise-aligned measurement of performance and outcomes. The role plays a critical part in influencing roadmap decisions, evaluating investments, and ensuring delivery is grounded in measurable business value. The Director also leads the development of data and analytics capabilities within the value stream—setting standards, guiding best practices, and building a high-performing analytics team—while staying closely connected to emerging tools and approaches that enhance insight generation and decision support. If you are selected to move forward in the process, a Talent Acquisition Consultant will be scheduling a 30-minute phone interview with you. Given the accelerated timeline, please be prepared to respond and move quickly. Principal Duties and Responsibilities ·          Own the value stream analytics strategy, defining how performance, outcomes, and value are measured across the full end-to-end value stream. ·          Establish and govern KPI frameworks, ensuring consistent, enterprise-aligned definitions of success, value realization, and performance tracking. ·          Influence value stream prioritization and investment decisions by providing insights, scenarios, and trade-offs that shape roadmap and MVP selection. ·          Lead value measurement and impact assessment, ensuring pilots, MVPs, and initiatives are evaluated consistently and tied to financial and operational outcomes. ·          Drive alignment across stakeholders, partnering with Value Stream leaders, Product, Finance, and Technology to ensure a shared understanding of metrics, assumptions, and results. ·          Set data and analytics standards and practices, including data quality expectations, reporting approaches, and tools to ensure consistency and scalability. ·          Build and develop analytics capability, providing leadership, coaching, and direction to analysts and managers while strengthening overall data maturity within the value stream. ·          Champion a data-driven culture, identifying opportunities to leverage data, advanced analytics, and emerging tools to improve decision-making and business outcomes.   Job Specifications ·          Bachelors Degree preferred, and/or equivalent experience ·          7+ years experience with demonstrated success at a comparable data analytics related field ·          Proficient in analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python) ·          Demonstrated expertise with modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent) ·          Demonstrated understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts ·          Proficient in extracting and