Director, Actuary

🕒 July 24

🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $147.8k - $236k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Actuary

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The Standard

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1906

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Legal • Consulting

The Standard is a comprehensive provider of insurance, retirement, and investment products and services, targeting individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. Based in Portland, Oregon, and part of the StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. , The Standard offers products such as life and disability insurance, annuities, vision and dental coverage, and retirement plans. Their solutions aim to facilitate financial wellness and enable effective benefits administration, catering to clients of all sizes. The company is renowned for its people-first commitment and innovative partnerships, contributing to a seamless customer experience.

📋 Description

• Lead a high-performing team of actuaries and students • Direct and control activities within a defined area of actuarial analysis or responsibility • Supervise, train, develop, and coach professional individual contributors • Establish a high-performing, collaborative team environment • Identify workforce needs and align them with corporate manager expectations, values, and vision • Manage development of pricing for premium rates and fees • Analyze emerging profit compared with pricing assumptions • Perform specialized pricing and underwriting for large cases or unique blocks of business • Analyze profitability, growth, risk, customer retention, and expense trends using company, industry, and capital market data • Create and maintain models for analysis, risk management, income projection, and regulatory requirements • Communicate findings to management and provide quantitative input for business, investment, and financial strategies • Collaborate with sales, marketing, and other functional areas on financial soundness and new product design • Research, design, and implement new products or product enhancements • Analyze new product profitability to achieve corporate and division income and growth goals • Provide strategic guidance to influence management decision-making • Serve as illustration actuary with annual reporting responsibilities • Serve as a lead on key projects and initiatives • Mentor others in the actuarial career • Develop and execute business needs within an actuarial function

🎯 Requirements

• FSA designation required • Seasoned actuarial business perspective, particularly including pricing design and strategy • Strong life pricing experience • Group or Individual Life pricing experience strongly preferred • Experience with GGY AXIS preferred • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent combination of education and experience) in mathematics, actuarial science, business, or a related field preferred • Ability to analyze complex quantitative, qualitative, forward-looking, and organizational factors • Ability to communicate and collaborate across departments • Project leadership, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills • Ability to independently determine methods and procedures on new assignments • Background investigation and employment, education, and licensing verification required as a condition of employment • Must be bondable

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with matching company contributions • Annual incentive bonus plan • Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually • PTO increases with tenure • Career growth and advancement opportunities • Paid parental leave • Adoption/surrogacy assistance • Employee giving program that double matches donations to eligible nonprofits and schools • Remote work arrangement