Director, Underwriting Strategy – Planning
Manulife
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$125,100 - CA$175,100 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Support underwriting involvement in IIC programs and initiatives and ensure timely implementation and business readiness.
- Collaborate with the Insurance Leadership Team, Operations Leadership Team, Artificial Intelligence Team, pricing, and risk functions.
- Provide input to business planning and direction, identifying future business opportunities, and driving the development of plans to achieve agreed upon objectives.
- Establish key strategic initiatives with the leadership team and ensure focus aligns with IIC, Affinity and GB strategic priorities.
- Develop and maintain a framework to implement, track and report on the initiatives.
- Responsible for providing updates and frequent reports to key stakeholders on the status and health of ongoing initiatives.
- Present results to internal and external stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Work across the operations team to identify resources required to implement strategic initiatives.
- Support Underwriting leadership team with adhoc strategic/transformational tasks and priorities.
- Drive employee engagement as an informal leader within the business unit.
Requirements
- Strong problem solving skills
- Analytical skills & proficiency with numbers including financial analysis
- Financial Services Industry experience; strong life and health insurance knowledge preferred
- Business Development skills; ability to think conceptually and creatively
- Collaborative approach; ability to work through others and influence change
- Excellent communication skills (written & oral) and advanced experience with presentation preparation
- Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently; strong organizational skills; ability to plan forward and manage deadlines
- Attention to detail.
- Demonstrated initiative – willing to explore and drive changes to existing processes and reports.
- Bilingualism (English and French) is a strong asset. If the successful candidate is in Québec, proficiency in both languages will be required.
Benefits
- health, dental, mental health, vision insurance
- short- and long-term disability insurance
- life and AD&D insurance coverage
- adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
- employee/family assistance plans
- retirement savings plans including pension and global share ownership plan
- financial education and counseling resources
- generous paid time off including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial analysisbusiness developmentproblem solvinganalytical skills
Soft Skills
collaborative approachexcellent communication skillsorganizational skillsattention to detaildemonstrated initiative