Associate Actuary and Team Lead - IntelliScript (Remote)

What We Do

Milliman IntelliScript is a group of a few hundred experts in fields ranging from actuarial science to information technology to clinical practice. Together, we develop and deploy category-defining, data-driven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for a broad spectrum of insurance, health IT and life sciences clients. We are a business unit within Milliman, Inc., a respected consultancy with offices around the world.

Candidates who have their pick of jobs are drawn to IntelliScript’s entrepreneurial and collaborative culture of innovation, excellence, exceptional customer service, balance, and transparency. Every single person has a voice in our company, and we challenge each other to push the outer limits of our full, diverse potential. And, we’ve shown sustained growth that ensures you’ll have room to grow your skillset, responsibilities, and career.

Our team is smart, down-to-earth, and ready to listen to your best ideas. We reward excellence and offer competitive compensation and benefits. Visit our LinkedIn page for a closer look at our company, and learn more about our cultural values here.

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What this position entails

As an innovator in risk assessment, Milliman embraces technology and builds renowned data-driven tools that evaluate risk for a wide variety of applications. Nodal® is a comprehensive SaaS solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze structured and unstructured data to predict high-cost claims. The Nodal product team uses AI to extract data hidden in unstructured text, builds predictive models using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, and delivers insights in a web-based application. The Associate Actuary on this team plays an important role in supporting day-to-day activities, collaborating with internal teams and producing client studies and deliverables.

In this role, you’ll be expected to clearly communicate findings and insights to internal and external stakeholders through both written reports and presentations. Your contributions will directly support our product roadmap and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with evolving client needs and market dynamics.

 What you will be doing

• Perform client proof-of-concept studies and generate other recurring client deliverables
• Collaborate with data scientists to complete analyses related to client questions and ad-hoc needs
• Anticipate and address questions that will arise during business review
• Actively engage in peer review processes, provide constructive feedback, and ensure the quality and consistency of work produced and reviewed
• Balance numerous projects/tasks with varying deadlines and difficulty without sacrificing quality of work

 What we need

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Actuarial accreditation (ASA or ACAS) in good standing
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the actuarial profession
• Proficiency with data analysis tools and techniques, including Excel, Python or R, and SQL

 What you bring to the table

• Demonstrated “let’s find a way to do it” attitude: conviction that no task is too big or too small, quick to approach an issue and find the optimal solution, ready to adapt in any situation
• Communication skills: articulate and professional when speaking with clients as well as with colleagues, at all organizational levels, and via all mediums (phone, email, video calls, etc.)
• Love to learn: take every opportunity you’re given to develop knowledge and skills
• Analytical thinking: ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach to generate sensible, realistic, practical solutions to problems
• Attention to detail: verify important details, ensure there are no surprises or gaps in needed information
• Creativity: generate new approaches to problems or innovations t