Job ID: 10479
Employment Type: Existing Role
Work Environment: We offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote work. You may work from any of the following locations: Winnipeg, MB; Wawanesa, MB; Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Lethbridge, AB; Toronto (North York), ON; Kitchener, ON; Ottawa, ON; Montreal, QC; Quebec City, QC, Moncton, NB; Dartmouth; NS.
Working Business Language: English. This role is considered a head-office role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.
Salary: At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and pension plan.
The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to: your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $80,000 - $105,000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company
Founded in 1896, The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company is one of Canada’s largest mutual insurers, fully owned by its more than 1.8 million members. Headquartered in Winnipeg, Wawanesa is the parent company of WSI™, a specialty insurer delivering tailored solutions built around unique needs; Wawanesa Life, a provider of life insurance products; and Western Financial Group, a leading national distributor of personal and commercial insurance.
Wawanesa is committed to helping communities thrive in a changing world. The company invests more than $4 million annually in charitable initiatives, including $2.5 million each year to support people and communities on the front lines of climate change. Learn more at wawanesa.com.
We are currently seeking dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in a dynamic environment, embrace change, and are eager to gain diverse experience while advancing their careers as part of a growing team.
Job Overview
The Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights Analyst helps turn market, competitor, broker, customer and business information into clear stories that leaders can use to make decisions. The role will work with existing analysis, bring in new sources of intelligence, and develop practical dashboards, reporting, and AI-enabled capabilities that make insights easier to find, understand and action. This role is less about producing isolated reports and more about connecting the dots across available information, surfacing what matters, and helping Personal Lines leadership understand what is changing, why it matters, and what we should do next. The role proactively sources intelligence from across the organization and the external market, then uses strong P&C knowledge, analytical judgment and AI-enabled tools to turn fragmented information into an integrated, actionable market story.
Job Responsibilities
- Synthesize existing market intelligence, analysis and business reporting into clear themes, implications and recommended areas of focus for leadership. Proactively source, collect and analyze intelligence from internal and external sources, including regulatory filings, competitor disclosures, carrier financial results, industry research, broker feedback and licensed market or consumer datasets.
- Identify and evaluate new sources of intelligence that can improve our understanding of market conditions, competitor activity, broker behaviour, customer needs or emerging opportunities.
- Develop dashboards, reporting views and repeatable insight tools that make intelligence easier to access, compare and interpret over time.
- Explore and apply AI-enabled capabilities to help summarize information, identify patterns, surface emerging signals and translate data into usable insight.
- Turn analysis into leadership-ready narratives that explain what is happening, why it matters, and what actions should be considered.
- Use practical examples and evidence to make insights tangible, such as showing how a competitor move, broker trend, regulatory change or customer signal could create a risk, opportunity or management action.
- Proactively build relationships with cross-functional teams to understand existing work, avoid duplication, connect related insights and ensure intelligence reflects operational context.
- Support strategy, planning and decision-making by bringing together quantitative analysis, qualitative input and business judgment into concise, actionable recommendations. Identify material regional and provincial differences in competitor behaviour, regulation, distribution, consumer trends and growth opportunities.
Qualifications
- Post-secondary degree in business, economics, finance, marketing, data analytics, market research or a related discipline; an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
- Experience working with market intelligence, analytics, strategy, research, reporting or business insights.
- Strong ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and translate data into clear business implications. Demonstrated ability to connect quantitative data, qualitative insights and external market signals into a cohesive story that clearly explains what happened, why it matters and what actions should be considered.
- Comfort with dashboards, reporting tools, data visualization and emerging AI-enabled approaches to insight generation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn analysis into concise, leadership-ready stories and recommendations.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across teams to collect input, test thinking and build alignment.
- Strong background in Personal Lines Insurance with experience in broker distribution is required.
Diversity Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
At Wawanesa, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people – this is supported by having a representative workforce.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including racialized persons, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender-diverse and neurodiverse individuals, and anyone who can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.
We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates. If you require accommodations during any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out in confidence to jobs@wawanesa.com.
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Please note that the recruitment process for this position may involve the use of AI tools to screen, assess, or select applicants. All final decisions are taken or reviewed by human recruiters and human hiring leaders in compliance with all applicable legislation.
