Souscripteur I, Assurance des particuliers
- Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
English section of this bilingual listing.
We're looking for an Underwriter I, Personal Lines, to join our growing team!
This role is a full-time hybrid position that requires two days per week working from one of our offices located in St. John’s, NL; Dieppe, NB; or Dartmouth, NS.
If you're looking to grow your underwriting career in a dynamic, collaborative environment, enjoy working with brokers, and bring curiosity, sound judgement, and a solution-focused mindset, we want to hear from you.
What You'll Do Here
- Assess and evaluate Personal Lines insurance risks while continuing to develop your underwriting knowledge and judgment.
- Make underwriting decisions on new business, renewals, endorsements and cancellations within your authority, company guidelines, and applicable laws and regulations.
- Review underwriting information, including claims history, driver records, questionnaires, and other reports, to make informed risk decisions.
- Apply critical thinking and a solution-focused approach to underwriting decisions, looking beyond the immediate transaction to understand the overall risk.
- Communicate underwriting decisions and recommendations clearly and confidently to brokers through verbal and written correspondence.
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with brokers and internal business partners.
- Balance risk selection, customer experience, and profitable growth when identifying solutions.
- Work flexibly across different service channels, including participating in a phone queue as required, to support broker needs and changing business volumes.
- Demonstrate curiosity by asking questions, seeking to understand the “why,” and continuously building technical knowledge.
- Contribute to a collaborative team environment by sharing knowledge and supporting peers.
- Take ownership of your individual development and actively work toward increasing your underwriting knowledge, capability, and authority.
- As your knowledge and experience grow, you may have opportunities to share knowledge with peers and brokers, contribute to training, and participate in broader business and relationship-building activities.
What You Bring To The Table
- A Bachelor's Degree will be considered a strong asset and supporting success in this role.
- Previous underwriting experience is an asset, and such candidates will be prioritized.
- Previous experience working in a phone queue environment is considered an asset.
- A strong desire to build a career in underwriting and continuously develop technical knowledge.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to assess information and make sound decisions.
- Curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, appropriately challenge assumptions and understand the reasoning behind underwriting decisions.
- Ability to interpret policy wordings and legal documents.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to explain decisions and recommendations.
- A collaborative, relationship-focused approach when working with brokers, peers, and internal business partners.
- Foster a positive, high-performance culture that inspires teams to consistently exceed expectations, embrace accountability, and pursue ambitious outperformance goals while recognizing and celebrating success.
- Strong organization, efficiency, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- A growth and solution mindset, with openness to coaching, feedback and continuous learning.
- Insurance Professional (CIP) designation completed, in progress, or willingness to complete within three years.
- No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.
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Notre promesse aux employés, c’est ce qu’Intact vous promet en échange de votre engagement à vivre nos valeurs, à donner le meilleur de vous-mêmes, à être ouverts au changement et à vous investir dans votre carrière. Nous vous promettons de vous soutenir et de vous offrir des occasions de développement et des avantages financiers axés sur la performance dans un milieu de travail où vous pouvez façonner l’avenir, réussir en équipe et évoluer avec nous.
La rémunération chez Intact, c’est plus qu’une paie.
- Aménagements de travail flexibles et formule de travail hybride
- Possibilité d’acheter jusqu’à cinq jours de vacances additionnels par année
- Autres avantages sociaux visant à soutenir votre bien-être mental et physique, incluant des soins de santé virtuels, un compte de dépenses mieux-être, et plus encore.
- RAAE et autres possibilités d’épargne : jusqu’à 12 % du salaire, voire plus (renseignez-vous sur la possibilité d’un revenu de retraite garanti à vie)
54,900 - 67,100
Boni annuel cible, basé sur le salaire de base, avec un versement potentiel pouvant aller jusqu’au double de la cible (selon la performance individuelle de l’employé et les résultats financiers de l’entreprise)
5%
Pour honorer notre promesse de réussir en équipe, nous partageons les fruits de notre succès avec nos employés par l’entremise d’un programme de bonis annuels et d’un régime d’achat d’actions des employés (RAAE), dans le cadre duquel Intact verse une cotisation correspondant à 50 % des actions nettes achetées par l’employé.
Nos régimes de retraite sont flexibles et offrent une sécurité à long terme pour nos employés après leur carrière. Nous sommes l’une des rares entreprises à toujours offrir un régime de retraite à prestations déterminées qui assure un revenu de retraite garanti à vie.
Le salaire de la personne retenue pour ce poste sera déterminé selon un ensemble de facteurs, dont : l’expérience professionnelle, les compétences, la contribution anticipée quant au poste, l’équité interne, etc. L’échelle salariale présentée ci-haut est pour une semaine de travail de 35 heures et pourrait s’appliquer à la majorité des différents profils de candidats, mais nous encourageons les candidats se situant en dehors de cette zone salariale à postuler.
À propos du poste
We're looking for an Underwriter I, Personal Lines, to join our growing team!
This role is a full-time hybrid position that requires two days per week working from one of our offices located in St. John’s, NL; Dieppe, NB; or Dartmouth, NS.
If you're looking to grow your underwriting career in a dynamic, collaborative environment, enjoy working with brokers, and bring curiosity, sound judgement, and a solution-focused mindset, we want to hear from you.
What You'll Do Here
- Assess and evaluate Personal Lines insurance risks while continuing to develop your underwriting knowledge and judgment.
- Make underwriting decisions on new business, renewals, endorsements and cancellations within your authority, company guidelines, and applicable laws and regulations.
- Review underwriting information, including claims history, driver records, questionnaires, and other reports, to make informed risk decisions.
- Apply critical thinking and a solution-focused approach to underwriting decisions, looking beyond the immediate transaction to understand the overall risk.
- Communicate underwriting decisions and recommendations clearly and confidently to brokers through verbal and written correspondence.
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with brokers and internal business partners.
- Balance risk selection, customer experience, and profitable growth when identifying solutions.
- Work flexibly across different service channels, including participating in a phone queue as required, to support broker needs and changing business volumes.
- Demonstrate curiosity by asking questions, seeking to understand the “why,” and continuously building technical knowledge.
- Contribute to a collaborative team environment by sharing knowledge and supporting peers.
- Take ownership of your individual development and actively work toward increasing your underwriting knowledge, capability, and authority.
- As your knowledge and experience grow, you may have opportunities to share knowledge with peers and brokers, contribute to training, and participate in broader business and relationship-building activities.
- A Bachelor's Degree will be considered a strong asset and supporting success in this role.
- Previous underwriting experience is an asset, and such candidates will be prioritized.
- Previous experience working in a phone queue environment is considered an asset.
- A strong desire to build a career in underwriting and continuously develop technical knowledge.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to assess information and make sound decisions.
- Curiosity and a willingness to ask questions, appropriately challenge assumptions and understand the reasoning behind underwriting decisions.
- Ability to interpret policy wordings and legal documents.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to explain decisions and recommendations.
- A collaborative, relationship-focused approach when working with brokers, peers, and internal business partners.
- Foster a positive, high-performance culture that inspires teams to consistently exceed expectations, embrace accountability, and pursue ambitious outperformance goals while recognizing and celebrating success.
- Strong organization, efficiency, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- A growth and solution mindset, with openness to coaching, feedback and continuous learning.
- Insurance Professional (CIP) designation completed, in progress, or willingness to complete within three years.
- No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.
Égalité d’accès à l’emploi
Le respect est une des valeurs d’Intact. Pour nous, cela veut dire voir la diversité comme une force. Nous veillons à offrir un milieu de travail accessible où tout le monde se sent valorisé, inclus et encouragé à partager son point de vue unique.
Nous encourageons les candidatures de personnes appartenant à des groupes dignes d’équité, notamment les femmes, les Autochtones, les personnes handicapées, les personnes noires et les personnes faisant partie de la communauté 2ELGBTQI+.
Dans le cadre de l’engagement d’Intact envers la réconciliation, nous reconnaissons que nous travaillons, nous nous réunissons et voyageons dans un territoire habité à l’origine par les Premières Nations, les Métis, les Inuits, appelé aujourd’hui Canada. Cette histoire s’étend sur plusieurs siècles et continue d’évoluer aujourd’hui.
Nous avons mis en place des politiques qui visent à assurer aux personnes handicapées l’égalité d’accès et de participation, entre autres grâce à des mesures d’adaptation (accommodements) en milieu de travail. Un exemplaire de ces politiques est disponible sur demande.
Si nous pouvons rendre le processus de recrutement plus accessible pour vous, n’hésitez pas à nous le dire quand nous vous ferons part d’une possibilité d’emploi. Nous travaillerons avec vous pour répondre à vos besoins.
Consultez cette page pour en savoir plus sur notre processus de recrutement et votre parcours de candidat ou de candidate.
Si vous travaillez déjà pour Intact ou belairdirect, veuillez postuler à ce poste sur notre site carrière interne.
Merci de prendre note qu'Intact n'offre ni parrainage ni soutien concernant les démarches d'immigration, y compris, mais sans s'y limiter, les permis de travail fermés liés à l'entreprise. Les candidats doivent être admissibles à travailler au Canada à compter de la date prévue de leur entrée en fonction et durant toute la période de leur emploi. De plus, ils demeurent les seuls responsables de maintenir leur admissibilité au travail.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Assess personal insurance risks and make decisions on new business, renewals, endorsements, and cancellations within delegated authority and applicable guidelines. Communicate decisions to brokers, build collaborative relationships, balance risk selection with customer experience and profitable growth, and continue developing underwriting expertise.
Requirements
Previous underwriting experience is an asset, and a bachelor's degree is considered a strong asset; candidates should bring sound judgment, critical-thinking, communication, organization, and relationship-building skills. A Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation must be completed, in progress, or pursued within three years, and candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Skills
- Personal Lines Underwriting
- Risk Assessment
- Underwriting Decision-Making
- Critical Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- Policy Interpretation
- Legal Document Interpretation
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Time Management
- Organization
- Customer Service
- Adaptability
- Collaboration
- Continuous Learning
Benefits
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Hybrid Work
- Additional Vacation Purchase Option
- Virtual Health Care
- Wellness Spending Account
- Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Employer Share Contributions
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan
- Annual Performance Bonus
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Customer Service & Support
Keywords
- Personal Lines Insurance
- Underwriting
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Selection
- New Business
- Renewals
- Endorsements
- Cancellations
- Claims History
- Driver Records
- Policy Wordings
- Legal Documents
- Underwriting Guidelines
- Insurance Regulations
- Broker Relationships
- Customer Experience
- Profitable Growth
- Phone Queue
- Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP)
- Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan
- Performance Bonus