Director - Specialty Lines Auto & Transportation
7 months ago
Our employees are at the heart of what we do best: helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. When you join our team, you’re bringing this purpose to life alongside a passionate community of experts.
Feel empowered to learn and grow while being valued for who you are
- here, diversity is a strength. You have our commitment to support you in reaching your goals with tools, opportunities, and flexibility. It’s our employee promise.
Our hybrid work model provides the balance between working from home and enjoying meaningful in-person interactions.
Read on to see how you can shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.
**About the role**
**Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions** continues 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.
With this vision in mind and due to growth, Intact is hiring a** Director Specialty Lines Auto & Transportation **to direct and execute the divisional strategies for the Specialty Lines Auto and Transportation business lines. You will be responsible for short term and long-term objectives surrounding growth, profitability, productivity, and engagement.
This position is a full-time permanent opportunity in hybrid mode. A 3-days a week presence in the office is required. You can do this role from **Toronto or Calgary.**
**With these exciting goals in mind, you will**:
- Drive Specialty Lines Auto and Transportation’s profitability and growth
- Build and maintain strong relations with our brokerage network
- Manage, provide coaching, performance feedback and facilitate continuous learning and development, career development and succession planning to a team of managers responsible for the specialty auto and transportation business.
- Determine team goals and objectives, assign responsibilities, and provide coaching with complex and problem files requiring authorization
- Contribute to strategic planning process for the Specialty Lines team
- Identify opportunities for improvement, and enhance essential business processes
- Recommend appetite direction and underwriting guidelines to drive improved or increased results through strategic analysis
- Manage key relationships between corporate and divisional specialty solutions teams
- 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 audit process to verify soundness of underwriting practices and risk selection, and to identify areas for potential improvement
- Liaise with the distribution management team, underwriting managers, national peers, corporate underwriting, and claims management on technical and administrative issues
- In conjunction with the VP, prepare budget for annual expenses (salary, operating, etc.) and achieve established annual budget
- Provide monthly/weekly updates, when required, to Vice President on all operation issues, including results/production, staffing, expenses and market threats, underwriters, and internal/external business partners
- Lead various projects
- Be accountable for the delivery of key operational initiatives - such as technology utilization, corporate liaison, product development
**SKILLS/EDUCATION**
- Strong technical base in Specialty Lines Auto Lines of Business
- Management experience in commercial or specialty insurance
- Effective communications skills to develop and foster favorable business relationships, both internally and externally
- Strategic thinker with the ability to focus on attention to detail
- Leadership ability to influence and motivate people and facilitate 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, or other developments impacting business results and recommend changes in regional practices
- Effective communication skills to develop and foster business relationships, conduct presentations in formal settings, and resolve conflicts
- Must demonstrate the ability to develop, mentor, and train staff and communicate effectively
- Strong follow up and execution from projects and meetings
- A desire to win - Intact aims to outperform while living our values, and remaining humble
- Willingness to travel regularly to meet with our team and our brokers
- Valid drivers license
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