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Definity is the parent company to some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We can’t do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It’s better here.

The Junior or Intermediate Advanced Analytics Professional is responsible for creating predictive models, tools, and processes based on internal and external data to improve business decision making and the customer experience. The Intermediate Advanced Analytics Professional reports to the Team Leader/Manager, Advanced Analytics to deliver on project requirements.

The Advanced Analytics Professional leverages past work experience in data mining/predictive modelling to explore and analyze large amounts of data to discover meaningful patterns. The team member creates stakeholder-facing deliverables to explain insights to business stakeholders and deliver a high-quality business solution.

• Apply professional experience with analytics software to extract, analyze, and model data for Advanced Analytics projects, supported by leaders and more senior team members.
• Run recurrent team processes to refresh prior models and tools developed by the Advanced Analytics team.
• Work with leaders to prepare and present high-quality deliverables to communicate project insights and influence the adoption of recommendations.
• Conduct industry, demographic, and other consumer research to understand new data sources and applications of analytics.
• Respond to routine, ad-hoc requests of internal and external stakeholders.
• Focus on innovation and process improvement to promote leading practice and efficiency across the organization.

• A university degree in data science, statistics, computer science, operations research, or a related discipline.
• Two years of work experience in data mining and/or predictive modelling, including expertise in certain major areas of data science/analytics (i.e., data wrangling, data visualization, predictive modelling, statistics, machine learning, big data analytics, geospatial analytics, and optimization).
• Strong communication (oral/written) and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems.
• Significant experience with data mining/statistical programming software (e.g., R, Python).
• Strong programming skills and efficient use of Microsoft applications (e.g., Excel, Access, VBA).
• Ability to guide and coach more junior team members through technical project work and deliverable creation.
• Salary Range - Jr. - $53,800 - $106,400
• Salary Range - Intermediate - $65,200 - $123,000

Actual salary for the role may vary depending on work location of the successful candidate and other factors including but not limited to, skills, education, experience, working conditions and the local labour market.

This position is being posted to fill an existing vacancy.

We also take potential into consideration. If you don’t have this exact experience, but you know you have what it takes, be sure to give us more insight through your application and cover letter.

Our inclusive work environment welcomes diversity and supports accessibility. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know by contacting accessibility@economical.com.

Background checks

This role requires successful clearance of a background check (including criminal checks and leadership references).

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• Job Identification 8760
• Job Category Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence