Job Description

Date: Aug 19, 2022 Location: Winnipeg, MB, CA, R3C-3P1 Remote - Canada, CA Moncton, New Brunswick, CA, E1E-4R5 Toronto, ON, CA, M2P-2B7 Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, V6J-4Y3 Calgary, AB, CA, T2R-0E4 Edmonton, AB, CA, T6E-6A8 Company: Wawanesa Insurance

We’re proud to give our employees the flexibility to choose how and where they want to work. In this role, you can decide whether your preference is to work from home (remote), work from the office or a hybrid of time spent at both. You may live in and work in any of the following locations: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Labrador and/or the Yukon.
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, founded in 1896, is Canada’s largest mutual insurer, with $3.9 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10.5 billion. Wawanesa Mutual, with executive offices in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa General, which offers property and casualty insurance in California and Oregon; Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada; and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Western Canada. With more than 5,700 employees, Wawanesa proudly serves more than two million policyholders in Canada and the United States. Wawanesa is thrilled to be named one of Canada’s Best Employers by Forbes for 2022. This certification recognizes us as a leading employer and reinforces that we’re a company that values our people for who they are and the work they do to support our customers, communities, and brokers. Wawanesa is also a Manitoba Top Employer for 2022 recognizing that we are an exceptional place to work. Wawanesa actively gives back to organizations that strengthen communities where it operates, donating well above internationally recognized benchmarks for excellence in corporate philanthropy.
We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.

Job Overview

The Director of Advanced Analytics contributes to Wawanesa’s success by collaborating with Wawanesa executives and organizational leaders, to identify, build, and deploy machine learning and artificial intelligence applications to support decision making across the organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Works directly with organizational leaders to introduce advanced analytics to all functions within the organization, and to foster the advancement and adoption of analytic assets
• Leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of value driven and ethical predictive services
• Develops, implements, and continuously improves advanced analytic governance, standards and processes to enable all aspects of analysis, including model monitoring and value measurement
• Monitors the market for data, technology and vendor opportunities
• Attract, recruit, retain and lead Advanced Analytics talent
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years experience with predictive services and 3 years of people leadership with proven ability to build high performing teams
• Completion of post-secondary degree/certificate preferably in computer science, mathematics, statistics, actuarial science/mathematics, engineering, physics, or another related field
• Strong business acumen with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to recognize and identify critical issues
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex ideas in a simple, persuasive, and eloquent manner
• Comfortable confronting difficult issues and diplomatic in delivery of challenging messages.
• Ability to establish and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders
• Advanced planning and organizing skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize a busy workload and multiple projects
• Property and casualty or life insurance experience is an assetI-

Wawanesa provides its employees with a respectful, challenging and rewarding environment where they can maximize their potential while contributing to the company’s goals. Our full-time permanent employees are provided with highly competitive compensation packages (salaries, generous vacation allowance, leave top up, annual bonus plan, premium free benefits and a pension plan). Wawanesa provides a stable environment for its employees in today’s challenging markets.

Wawanesa is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse workforce that is equitable and inclusive for all. Wawanesa provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to an individual’s protected status: race/ethnicity, colour, religion, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family or marital status, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, or any other protected status. Accommodations are available upon request throughout all aspects of the selection process. Candidates requiring accommodations may contact, in confidence, jobs@wawanesa.com.
If you are interested in this exciting, challenging position with Wawanesa, apply today with your Resume.

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