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Position Summary  

We seek a talented ASA or FSA to join the Individual Disability Pricing, Product Development, and Experience Studies Team. In this role you will support new product and pricing strategy, assist in competitive benchmarking and industry analysis, and develop and implement tools used for data analytics and assumption development. Your experience will determine the position level.  

Your key responsibilities may include:  

• Supporting our IDI pricing and product development initiatives through competitive benchmarking, profitability analysis, and risk modeling.
• Developing tools used to evaluate competitor product offerings and benchmark with current and potential future product initiatives.
• Collaborating with SMEs across the department to ensure that appropriate actuarial perspectives are considered when making changes to underwriting policies, sales strategy, or policy management.
• Building and maintaining databases, dashboards, and tools used for experience analysis, assumption development, and profitability assessment.
• Acting as champion for adoption and integration of analytical tools such as Python and PowerBI.

Qualifications Required:  

• ASA or FSA and 5+ years of actuarial experience 
• Bachelor’s degree required  

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, Python preferred 
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills

Qualifications Desired:  

• Individual Disability product knowledge
• Pricing and/or Product Development Experience
• Experience and/or proficiency with GGY-Axis
• Experience and/or proficiency with Python (strongly preferred) or R
• Experience with PowerBI and SQL

Analytical Skills:

• Thinks innovatively, brings ideas to life, and seeks continuous improvement.
• Anticipates and removes barriers to accomplish business objectives.
• Contribute broad actuarial, financial and industry expertise combined with unique product line knowledge.
• Uses skills to contribute to the achievement of company goals.
• Works on significant and complex issues where analysis of situations requires evaluation of quantitative, qualitative, forward looking and organizational factors.

Influence:

• Communicate and collaborate with various departments across the organization to meet business needs.
• Leverages effective networks across the department/division.
• Exhibits effective communication and people skills in managing projects, working with stakeholders and resolving conflicts.
• Viewed as a resource to the division, providing subject matter expertise in his/her key areas of responsibilities.

Decision Making:

• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments. Significant role as a resource/mentor to others in the actuarial career.
• Primarily responsible for developing and executing on business needs within an actuarial function.
• Scope of decision making mainly contained within the function or immediate team.

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Please note - the salary range for this role is listed below. In addition to salary, our package includes incentive plan participation and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits, as well as an initial PTO accrual of 164 hours per year. Employees also receive 11 paid holidays and 2 wellness days per year.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on various factors, including individual and organizational performance.

Salary Range:

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.