Sr. Manager, Agribusiness Actuarial

What Is the Opportunity?

Bring your actuarial talent from farm-to-table where insurance meets agriculture! This Sr. Manager position supports the Agribusiness Actuarial team. Key responsibilities include core actuarial functions such as Plan, Rate Adequacy, profitability reporting, and pricing-related business initiatives (i.e. ongoing CAT/weather management, developing benchmark model insights, etc.). The successful candidate will drive pricing-related analyses while developing business acumen and effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This role will collaborate closely with Underwriting leadership, Product Management, Finance, and other departments to provide analytical support for pricing and strategic initiatives.

• Strategy
  • Hold a lead role in strategic planning as well as manage the successful execution and completion of assigned strategic initiatives and projects.
  • Develop solutions to resolve challenges of an initiative.
  • Propose change and innovation in order to improve project team performance and timelines.
  • This position will often participate on cross-unit initiatives and may participate on Enterprise initiatives.
• Operational
  • Independently perform actuarial and analytic analyses to solve business problems and apply judgment appropriately.
  • Drive day to day execution within unit. Support broad department initiatives.
  • Begin to promote efficiency across primary working group, balancing additional effort against incremental lift gained from work.
  • Begin to make decisions independently in accordance with department practices.
  • Begin to provide direction and review others' analytical work.
  • Begin to translate business requests into analytical solutions.
  • Provide support as necessary for initiatives across the Enterprise within the scope of influence.
• Communication
  • Communicates analysis, project results, and other business initiatives on a regular basis to staff, peers, and business partners.
  • Communicates technical topics to non-technical audience with guidance from manager.
  • Actively participates and may lead group discussions.
  • Creates formal written communication such as memos or presentations with guidance.
  • Networks and collaborates on ideas and challenges.
• Talent
  • Staff responsibilities may include direct management of 1 to 2 individual contributors or interns.
  • Acquisition, retention, and development of talent for assigned unit.
  • Execute and communicate talent development processes, including performance and personal development goals.
  • Talent assessment recommendations.
  • Performance management.
  • Mentor less experienced talent across the Enterprise.
  • Onboard new employees and interns in unit.
  • Support various training and skill development initiatives across assigned Segment and the Enterprise.
  • May provide support for recruiting efforts and candidate talent assessment efforts.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

• College degree in STEM related field.
• Associate Actuarial Credential.
• Strong PC skills (MS Office) and programming skills (eg SQL, SAS).
• 5+ years of quantitative analysis experience.
• Strong understanding of insurance products and industry.
• Demonstrated ability in actuarial and quantitative analysis and statistical concepts.
• Management experience.

• Take ownership of projects including initiating the project, drawing up the project plan, carrying out the action items and make recommendations.
• Proficient in Leading Self, exhibiting decisiveness and self-awareness while also effectively managing ambiguity.
• Initial development of Leading Others, including modeling the way for others and leading team projects.
• Initial development of Leading the Business, including actively engaging in driving business results, broad thinking and promoting an Enterprise culture.

• Has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of a few key business drivers and disciplines such as: underwriting, products, reinsurance, distribution, sales, operations, risk control, claim, and financials.
• Able to effectively utilize this business knowledge in developing analytic solutions.
• Has a general perspective of certain areas of the industry and developing trends such as: technology, analytic methodology, products and performance of competitors.
• Begins to be familiar with other key business drivers and discipline areas as well.

• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the BI&AA community across the Enterprise.
• Generate and solicit ideas, and build consensus with guidance.
• Aware of potential conflict and addresses with limited guidance.
• Begin to acknowledge accomplishments of others within your primary working group.
• Set and manage expectations with business partners for small projects.

• Evaluate and use appropriate data, tools and methods.
• Independently perform and implement analytics.
• May engage in technical/peer review.
• Begin to design and able to contribute on more complex analytic work.
• Begin to understand diverse perspectives to…