Careers

At GMS Health and Travel Insurance, we've been helping Canadians feel protected and live well for more than 70 years. We care about our customers, our community and each other, giving back with our time and talents, not to mention our support for vital health programs in cardiac care and trauma services. We've also been named one of Saskatchewan's Top Employers for ten years!

Join a team where innovation meets excitement! We're looking for a Manager, Pricing, who is ready to bring their strategic thinking and innovative mindset to our forward-thinking team.

Think you'd like to be part of a team that truly takes care of our customers, our communities, and each other? All in all, we're a pretty awesome bunch to work with!

The Manager, Pricing, is responsible for turning customer value into pricing strategy. By having a deep understanding of how products generate value for customers they are responsible for improving our pricing sophistication and driving revenue generation for the business by maintaining the strength of GMS's market position. Leading the team to build out cutting-edge pricing techniques in a way that encourages profitable growth and expansion; this role thinks broadly about how the needs of finance, product and risk come together to ensure financial integrity for GMS.

•Own the pricing risk and define the pricing and underwriting strategies to manage the risk

•Design, build and maintain an efficient scalable and innovative approach to pricing using future state technology. Utilize advanced modeling and actuarial analysis techniques to create pricing algorithms, generate rate indications, and develop segmentation models for all business lines.

•Lead pricing reviews for all lines of business, offer high-quality recommendations, and provide support during implementation as needed. Build pricing models and solutions for changing products. Sustain, adjust, and validate predictive statistical models; interpret the outcomes of the models for leaders.

•Manage pricing metrics that measure the financial and operational health of pricing across the business. Translate analysis insights to understandable business metrics fit for the audience.

•Lead the governance process to facilitate regular discussion on pricing performance within the organization.

•Build relationships and maintain high visibility by participating in select client visits, events and industry meetings. Keep abreast of market intel and important emerging issues in the industry and by joining specific and relevant industry committees.

•Keep abreast of market intelligence and information to develop new business strategies and adjust existing ones.

•Develop process for revision and updating of policies and practices.

•Provide leadership, direction, and support to a team that sustains strong trusting relationships with key decision makers internally and with key partners.

•Participate in and provide a leadership resource for projects.

•Work with a variety of stakeholders to review, improve and enhance automation within the function including straight through processing capabilities.

Competencies

•Analytical Thinking: Proactive anticipation of future needs and trends based on strong understanding of ongoing data analysis and trend watching.

•Communication: Able to communicate often complex information in accessible terms to a range of audiences; clearly articulate steps in a decision process and provide concrete recommendations to decision makers.

•Information Seeking: Driven by an underlining curiosity to know more about things, people, or issues; asks questions to get at the root cause of a situation or problem and understand environmental context.

•Impact and Influence: Easily establishes credibility with multiple diverse audiences; uses sophisticated techniques to persuade or convince others of organization priorities; maintains a strong understanding of the organization, and its key deliverables.

•Bachelor's Degree in Business, Actuarial Science, Finance, a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience in Actuarial, Pricing, or Underwriting.

•5+ years of pricing experience in a corporate environment is preferred.

•Excellent leadership, negotiation, communication skills with the ability to develop and communicate a vision.

•Team focused, proactive and continuous improvement mind-set.

If you think so, please apply by July 29, 2024. We'd love to reach out to everyone who applies, but we just don't have enough hands! If you're selected for an interview, we'll be in touch. If not, please consider us again in the future.