Senior Product Innovation Insights & Intelligence Analyst (Personal Lines)
Date: Nov 19, 2025
Location: North York - Toronto, ON (Hybr, CA Montreal, QC (Hybrid), CA Ottawa, ON (Hybrid), CA Kitchener, ON (Hybrid), CA Edmonton, AB (Hybrid), CA Moncton, NB (Hybrid), CA Vancouver, BC (Hybrid), CA Dartmouth, NS (Hybrid), CA Calgary, AB (Hybrid), CA Hybrid - Canada, CA Winnipeg, MB (Hybrid), CA
Company: Wawanesa Insurance
Job ID: 9582
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: $90,000- $120,000 Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About Us
At Wawanesa, we’re proud to 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; Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Toronto (North York), ON; Kitchener, ON; Ottawa, ON; Montreal, QC; Moncton, NB; Dartmouth; NS.
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company (“Wawanesa Mutual”), founded in 1896, is one of Canada’s largest mutual insurers, with over $3.5 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10 billion (CAD). Wawanesa Mutual, with its National Headquarters in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada, and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada. Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.7 million members in Canada, and we are home to more than 3,600 employees distributed across the Canadian regions and communities where we operate. We give back to organizations that strengthen communities, donating more than $3.5 million annually to charitable organizations, including over $2 million annually in support of people on the front lines of climate change. To learn more visit wawanesa.com.
We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.
Job Overview
This role is responsible for converting member, broker, market, and regulatory signals into decision-grade insights that shape Wawanesa’s product roadmap. Key responsibilities include building and maintaining the insights infrastructure, such as dashboards, research outputs, and predictive models—quantifying opportunities through market sizing and unit economics, monitoring competitive and regulatory developments (e.g., FSRA, CCIR, provincial updates), and synthesizing findings into structured evidence packages that support strategic planning across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons for Personal Lines.
Responsibilities
- Dashboards & Models: Build/maintain BI dashboards and analytical models tracking UBI/telematics, home IoT, ADAS/EV, and small-commercial trends; publish a monthly Market Pulse and quarterly deep dives.
- Primary Research: Design and run broker/member surveys, interviews, panels, and behavioral analysis; translate findings into clear problem statements and opportunity hypotheses.
- Opportunity Sizing: Produce TAM, elasticity views, and LR/COR impact by segment/province; support scenario modeling for business cases.
- Maintain a competitive & trend radar: Keep live market maps for UBI/telematics, ADAS/EV, embedded, home IoT, and small-commercial platforms; track regulatory trends (FSRA/CCIR) and implications.
- Competitive & Regulatory Radar: Maintain live market maps (features, pricing/discounts, endorsements) and monitor FSRA/CCIR/provincial guidance; summarize implications for filings, wordings, eligibility/rules, and T&Cs.
- Evidence Packs: Package assumptions, sources, and models into executive-ready memos/slides with explicit recommendations and success metrics.
- Data Governance: Maintain a versioned repository of sources/methods; ensure research privacy/compliance (e.g., PIPEDA) and audit-readiness.
- Deliver executive-ready storytelling: Produce brief, decision-oriented memos and slides; package Evidence Packs (assumptions, sources, models) to support go/no-go and sequencing.
Qualifications
- 5+ years in insurance analytics, market research, competitive intelligence, or financial modeling (P&C preferred).
- Advanced Excel and strong proficiency in Power BI or MicroStrategy; ability to wrangle large datasets and build clear visuals.
- Demonstrated experience designing/analyzing surveys or qualitative research; comfort turning messy data into crisp insights.
- Strong written and verbal communication—able to reduce complex analysis to a one-page brief and a 10-slide deck.
Wawanesa is proud to be one of Manitoba’s Top Employers, a Kincentric Best Employer in Canada and a Forbes Best Employer in Canada recognizing an exceptional place to work!
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.
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