Full-Time Director, Specialty Solutions
Job Description
It’s an exciting time to be in Specialty Solutions with Intact! Already known to be a strong leader in the industry, Specialty Solutions continues to evolve and grow with its divisional and national teams and its recent acquisition of OneBeacon. Intact is creating a North American leader in specialty insurance, with over $2 billion of annual premiums. It combines Intact’s leading commercial lines track record and deep data, claims and digital expertise with OneBeacon’s high caliber team and specialty lines capabilities. The acquisition bolsters Intact’s Canadian business with new products and cross-border capabilities, and better positions Intact to compete with international insurers. Furthermore, this provides an additional growth pipeline to leverage Intact’s consolidation expertise in a fragmented specialty lines market.
Intact Insurance offers a wide breadth of products in Specialty Solutions, including non-standard property, stand-alone equipment breakdown, programs, errors and omissions (E&O), directors and officers (D&O), marine, farm, long-haul trucking and other specialized classes of commercial auto. Intact Insurance is also a leading provider of surety bonds.
About us
Intact Insurance will be hiring about 150 professionals across Canada over the next few years, to add to its current team of experts. Our vision is to become a market leader and be widely recognized as the top provider of specialty insurance products and expertise. Our national scale, combined with our comprehensive suite of solutions, will provide brokers with the expertise and support they need to help them meet the changing needs of their customers. Our regional presence means we can be as local as brokers, which means they can depend on us to deliver both a broker and customer experience that is second to none.
Location: Vancouver or Calgary
Your opportunity.
With this vision in mind and due to growth, Intact is hiring a Specialty Solutions Director to direct and execute the divisional strategies. You will be responsible for short term and long term objectives surrounding growth, profitability, productivity and engagement. The ideal candidate will be strategically minded, possess strong leadership skills, be innovative and agile and possess extensive insurance knowledge. You must have a proven track record of coaching and mentoring high performing teams with the ability to influence and help drive and shape the business for the next phase of growth by evaluating, analyzing and making good business decisions. You will work closely and report directly to the Western Vice President of Specialty Solutions. With these exciting goals in mind, you will:
- Drive Specialty Solutions profitability and growth and contribute to the strategic plan
- Lead a team of managers responsible for various lines of business
- Provide coaching, performance feedback and facilitate continuous development and succession planning
- Determine team goals and objectives, assign responsibilities and provide coaching with complex and problem files requiring authorization
- Determine and/or establish key measures to monitor productivity and technical quality, identify opportunities for improvement, and enhance essential business processes
- Develop and recommend policy direction and underwriting guidelines to drive improved or increased results
- Manage key relationships between corporate and divisional Specialty Solutions teams
- Be accountable for the delivery of key operational initiatives and lead projects, such as technology, corporate liaison, centre of excellence, product development and operational implementation
- Act as the team’s underwriting authority on issues related to risk pricing, selection, and retention governed by the parameters of the corporate underwriting philosophy
- Conduct audits to verify soundness of underwriting practices and risk selection, and to identify areas for potential improvement
- Determine required staffing numbers and staffing levels based on established regional management and corporate guidelines
- Liaise with the regional management team, underwriting managers, corporate underwriting, and claims management on technical and administrative issues
- In conjunction with the Vice President, prepare budget for annual expenses (salary, operating, etc.) and achieve established annual budget
- Provide monthly updates and reports to the Vice President on all operational items
The requirements.
- Management experience in insurance
- University degree or combination of experience and education
- Sound knowledge of Specialty Solutions lines that Intact writes (preferred)
- Effective communication skills to develop and foster business relationships, both internally and externally
- Strategic thinking with the ability to focus on attention to detail
- Leadership ability to influence and motivate people and drive change
- Proven track record setting clear objectives and monitoring the progress of multiple projects against deadlines
- Address complex problems and take calculated risks to make decisions in time sensitive situations
- Ability to monitor competitive practices, business trends, and other developments impacting business results and recommend changes in regional practices
- Proven ability to develop, mentor, and train staff
- Strong follow-up and execution on work and projects
As a full-time employee your benefits include:
- A competitive salary
- An annual performance bonus
- A pension plan
- A 35-hour work week
- Flexible work hours/ Work from home
- Top of the line medical and dental insurance
- And many more benefits (fitness subsidy, in-house training, etc.)
The fine print.
Background Checks
Prior to receiving a job offer, you may be asked to consent to background checks if it’s a requirement for the role. These checks could include: work references, education and credential confirmation, employment verification, identity check, credit report, criminal offence and driver’s license record.
Eligibility to work in Canada
It’s important that you are eligible to work in Canada at the time an offer of employment is made. You may be requested to provide proof of eligibility at that time.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Intact, our values guide everything that we do. We celebrate our differences and appreciate our similarities. That’s why we are committed to building an inclusive and inspiring environment for all employees.
If you are in need of a specific accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to provide.
This role will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
How to Apply
Please apply via our website: https://careers.intact.ca/ca/en/job/IFCOUS6247/Director-Specialty-Solutions873 total views, 1 today
