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Souscripteur principal structurant des garanties et évaluant les risques pour aider les entreprises canadiennes à réussir à l’étranger chez EDC. Analyse financière, recommandations de crédit et collaboration avec partenaires financiers.
About the role
- Corporate Underwriting Advisor shaping commercial insurance strategy, portfolio performance, and product innovation. Supporting profitable growth across Desjardins’ national commercial insurance portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the evolution of underwriting appetite, eligibility criteria, and risk selection frameworks
- Analyze portfolio performance, market trends, and emerging risks to identify opportunities for profitable growth
- Identify product and coverage gaps using loss data, client feedback, and competitive insights to expand risk appetite
- Serve as a trusted advisor to actuarial and distribution operational partners on complex underwriting issues, high-impact risks, and portfolio initiatives
- Review initiatives, queries, file exceptions, positionings, timelines, and recommendations with member/client impact in mind
- Design, enhance, and maintain Commercial insurance products, coverages, and endorsements
- Translate client needs into innovative insurance solutions
- Ensure products remain relevant, sustainable, and aligned with evolving business objectives
- Contribute to strategic initiatives transforming underwriting capabilities, processes, and tools
- Support future-focused underwriting practices, data-driven decision-making, and emerging technologies
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Insurance, or a related field
- A minimum of six years of commercial Property & Casualty underwriting experience within the Ontario, Atlantic, and/or Western Canadian markets
- Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
- Experience drafting coverage wordings, interpreting coverage intent, determining eligibility, and developing underwriting guidelines
- Advanced experience in product development, underwriting strategy, portfolio management, or business transformation
- CIP designation completed or in current progress
- Advanced proficiency of French and English, both oral and written
- Advanced knowledge of commercial insurance coverages, underwriting principles, risk selection, and portfolio segmentation
- Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Interpersonal Savvy, Nimble learning, Strategic mindset
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
- Group insurance including telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
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