Manager, Actuarial - Corporate Personal Lines Projects
About The Position
As a manager within the National Team – Personal Insurance Projects, your work will have a major impact on our corporate strategic initiatives in Personal Lines (PL) insurance. This is a key opportunity within the PL leadership team, with a focus on profitably maximizing the value of IFC’s largest portfolio. You will be relied upon to develop our outperformance roadmap by establishing key objectives and maintaining a healthy cost benefits analysis list. You will oversee the execution of major strategic projects, particularly for our telematics product MyDrive, ensuring the quality of deliverables affecting digital components, corporate underwriting, and pricing. You will oversee analyses and research aimed at achieving business objectives. You will analyze trends and recommend creative adjustments to pricing, products, underwriting practices, and procedures. You will demonstrate your ability to change course by showing adaptability and flexibility when things do not go as planned, finding ways to get back on track. You will lead and oversee activities through planning and work allocation, foster teamwork within the team and beyond, and guide team training and development. You will coordinate with regional, divisional, and corporate teams on growth and profitability opportunities, while maintaining a longer-term view of the portfolio. This position is a permanent, full-time hybrid opportunity, with an in-office presence 3 days per week.
Requirements
- University degree in Mathematics or Actuarial Science or any combination of equivalent education and experience.
- Minimum 7 years of experience, including 2 years of coaching (major asset).
- Strong skills and knowledge of actuarial techniques.
- Strong knowledge of personal lines products and systems.
- Building strategic working relationships.
- Strong communication, time management and organizational skills.
- Critical thinking & analysis skills.
- Creative solutioning.
- Fostering engagement.
- Good strategic vision & decision-making while being a leader of change.
- Development of others.
- Planning and organization.
- Leading by example and living our values every day.
- For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.
- No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.
Nice To Haves
- FCAS an asset.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and influence decisions related to the underwriting structure and funnel, pricing, and system designs to create outperformance opportunities through growth or profitability.
- Develop methods to inspire and build a highly effective multi-disciplinary and engaged team composed of actuaries & corporate underwriters capable of meeting the current and future needs through effective leadership.
- Develop, recommend, and implement leadership strategies, organizational structure, and processes/technology improvement initiatives.
- Lead working groups involving multiple stakeholders with an ability to facilitate and influence direction.
- Plan and oversee the execution of projects and strive for continuous improvement in Personal Lines’ deployment quality.
- Ensure the team is productive and continuously works to improve the processes and tools.
- Manage performance reviews, training and coaching for group members to meet the company’s strategic objectives.
- Act as a key stakeholder for large-scale projects, establishing and translating conceptual needs into concrete and clear specifications and participating in the development and tracking of deliverables.
- Represent the Corporate PL function on various company task forces and act as the point of contact for other business units.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
- Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
- Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
- Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
- Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance): 15%
- Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
- Defined benefit pension plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
