Associate Director, Associate Director, Life & Disability Pricing

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Associate Director - Disability Pricing

Responsibilities

This role is responsible for providing business and financial analysis to support new business and renewal pricing strategies for Sun Life's Group Short-Term Disability (STD) and Paid Family & Medical Leave (PFML) products.

Pricing:

• Develop and monitor new business and renewal pricing programs.
• Maintain and improve pricing tools and models.
• Perform regular experience studies to update manual rates and other pricing formulas to support profitable growth of the business.
• Respond to internal and external audits for managed products.
• Manage required regulatory rate filings to approval.
• Support new product initiatives, including product development, pricing and governance.

Profitability Management:

• Provide input to Business and Strategic Plan forecasts.
• Develop data, metrics and processes for effective financial management of the products.
• Provide analysis to develop a deep understanding of macro and micro drivers impacting results.
• Enable management to react proactively to keep products competitively positioned.
• Monitor market and economic conditions to allow identification of issues/risks on a timely basis.
• Evaluate product financial performance, communicating to management and functional areas.

Leadership & Collaboration:

• The role may involve direct management of one or more actuarial students, including recruitment and evaluation of performance.
• Contribute to building a high-performance team, providing leadership and coaching to actuarial students on the team.
• Work in collaboration with Pricing, Underwriting, Product, Finance, Valuation and other teams.

Qualifications

• FSA and/or FCIA with relevant work experience.
• Familiarity with Group Benefits product pricing would be an asset.
• Intellectually curious and driven to understand underlying factors impacting results.
• Strong project management skills with a proven commitment to quality and meeting deadlines while handling multiple priorities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or another field requiring rigorous analysis.
• Strong analytical & technical skills to identify and track performance drivers, detect patterns in results.
• Ability to apply advanced financial concepts and capabilities across business processes.
• Strong initiative and drive for results.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.

Our Affirmative Action Program affirms our commitment to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitation of otherwise-qualified individuals with disabilities or special disabled veterans, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please email [email protected] to request an accommodation.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.