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About the Role

The Associate Manager, Business Analytics plays a key role in enabling data-driven decision making across the Insurance Solutions team, responsible for the direction, delivery, and performance of Canada Life’s individual insurance products. This role supports strategic and operational priorities through business casing, analytics, and reporting insights, while continuously improving reporting capabilities to drive business impact. The Associate Manager partners with leadership and cross-functional teams to define reporting needs, deliver dashboards and insights, and translate complex data into clear, executive-ready outputs.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of business cases for key initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to assess benefits, costs, risks, and implementation considerations.
Partner with Insurance Solutions leadership and cross-functional teams to define reporting needs, KPIs, and success metrics.
Engage business stakeholders early to understand requirements, clarify definitions, and align on outputs.
Translate complex data into clear, concise insights and executive-ready materials.
Collaborate with data analysts to design and maintain standardized reports, dashboards, and data models to support ongoing business needs.
Analyze expense and sales data to identify trends, drivers, and anomalies across individual insurance products and advisor/client behaviors.
Provide actionable insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions.
Support ad hoc analysis to answer key business questions and quantify opportunities.
Continuously identify opportunities to evolve analytics capabilities and outputs to better support the business.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant experience and a university or college degree in a related field of study (e.g. business, finance, accounting, actuarial science, data science)
Proven ability to effectively collaborate with key stakeholders and communicate insights and recommendations to leadership.
Proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint and Power BI.
Proven ability to learn quickly, work independently, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and perform effectively with limited instructions.
Strong attention to detail, with the ability to produce high-quality outputs under tight timelines.
Driven to continuously improve processes, performance, and efficiency.
Knowledge of the organization, distribution channels, insurance solutions products, systems, and data is an asset.
Hands-on experience with Databricks, data modelling and creating interactive dashboards is an asset.

Skills

Excel
Powerpoint
Power BI
Databricks
Data modelling
Creating interactive dashboards

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Permanent
Full Time

Experience Level

Associate Manager

Education Level

University degree
College degree

Salary/Compensations

$75,500 - $125,800

Benefits

Career Development opportunities
Access to industry-leading learning programs
Up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement
Flexible health and dental benefits
$5,000 mental health benefit
Volunteer day
Company-matching pension plan
Share ownership program
Additional investment options
Employee recognition programs
Service milestone celebrations
Employee discounts
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Mentorship programs
Social clubs and events

About the Company

We’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians.
Our company is trusted by 1 in 3 Canadians and contributes to the strength of communities across the country.
We’re looking for people who live our values everyday: we step up, we do the right thing, and we deliver – for our customers, communities and each other.

Equal Opportunity

We’re committed to removing barriers and ensuring equal access to employment. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation during the application process may contact talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com. All information provided will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and Canada Life policies.