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About the role

  • Director leading iA Financial Group's disability strategy, specialty services, and Centres of Excellence. Driving insurance operations, AI transformation, governance, and sustainable disability outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Evolve and strengthen iA's disability operating model for changing needs in a digital environment
  • Provide national leadership for disability specialty services and Centres of Excellence
  • Work with operational, modernization, innovation, analytics, sales, and service teams to improve service delivery and organizational capability
  • Provide expertise, tools, and solutions supporting high-quality service, timely decisions, recovery outcomes, and continuous improvement
  • Engage clients, advisors, employees, suppliers, and industry stakeholders to identify opportunities and advance practical solutions
  • Oversee claim strategies, process improvements, quality assurance, appeals, litigation support, governance, regulatory updates, performance outcomes, and KPI attainment
  • Optimize service frameworks, standards, and governance while protecting client and organizational financial outcomes
  • Drive disability strategy, transformation objectives, operating changes, cross-functional alignment, automation, AI, and digital initiatives
  • Lead disability innovation, process improvement, automation, AI enablement, and digital transformation with decision frameworks, KPIs, explainability, and risk controls
  • Serve as a disability subject matter leader for clients, advisors, and industry stakeholders
  • Oversee vendor management strategies and regulatory, audit, and internal control compliance
  • Build a future-ready disability workforce, Centres of Expertise, leadership pipelines, and upskilling initiatives

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience within disability claims management, claims, or other related insurance operations
  • Strong expertise across claims operations, strategy, transformation, and governance
  • Demonstrated success leading and guiding teams through innovation and large-scale change into production, with measured improvement outcomes and gains
  • Exceptional leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of building high-performing teams and developing leaders
  • Deep understanding of disability trends, disabling conditions such as mental health, return-to-work practices, and regulatory environments
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, clients, and industry partners
  • Advanced proficiency in both French and English, with daily verbal and written collaboration with unilingual English-speaking partners, teams, and stakeholders across Canada and internationally

Benefits

  • A work environment where learning and development merge with a collective pursuit of excellence
  • AI is in everyone's hands, empowering you to increase your personal effectiveness while supporting the organization's growth
  • A healthy, safe, fair, and inclusive environment where potential can be freely expressed and developed
  • The opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, supported by flexibility and access to inspiring and innovative workspaces
  • Flexible group insurance plans
  • Competitive retirement savings plan
  • Employee share purchase plan
  • Vacation program, wellness days, and personal development days
  • Telemedicine services
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
  • Ergonomic furniture program
  • Performance bonus
  • Discounts on iA products

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$130,000 - CA$180,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridMontrealCanada

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