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Diversity of tasks and responsibilities

Diversity of tasks and responsibilities outlined

Focused on creative solutions

Focused on creative solutions outlined

Filled with experts and resources

Filled with experts and resources outlined

At Optimum, being able to carry out diversified mandates is an indescribable source of motivation. Knowing that we are supported by teams of experts from various fields allows us to dive into innovative and large-scale projects. The human size of the organization gives us the opportunity to use our entrepreneurial skills and stand out in the market. There is never a dull moment with all the challenges we take on as a team, not to mention their rewarding aspect. 
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Optimum Actuarial Consulting

At Optimum, being able to carry out diversified mandates is an indescribable source of motivation. […]

Jean-Sébastien Côté

Family atmosphere

Family atmosphere outlined

Corporate values

Corporate values outlined

Optimum is the longest job that I’ve had so that should tell you something there. They are family oriented and care about the customer experience as well as their employee’s well-being. I have been so blessed and fortunate to work with other associates that love what they do as much as I do. I am always eager to go to work just to see my co-workers who became my friends. I enjoy exhibiting the core values of Optimum.

Janette Taylor-Lynn

Optimum Life Reinsurance

Optimum is the longest job that I’ve had so that should tell you something there. They are family oriented and care about the customer experience as well as their employee’s well-being. […]

Constantly growing

Constantly growing outlined

Entering my sixth year with Optimum it feel as though I have found my “forever home.” The organization provides a welcoming environment for employees to shine. Past experience is appreciated and celebrated, and achievements are acknowledged and rewarded. We work in an environment that both encourages and facilitates growth. Thanks to the hybrid work model, employees can balance their work and home lives, which proves the understanding of the organization that great results come from employees who can benefit from a flexible work environment.

Doug Fairhust

Optimum General Insurance

Entering my sixth year with Optimum it feel as though I have found my “forever home.” The organization provides a welcoming environment for employees to shine. […]

Development opportunity

Development opportunity outlined

From the outset of my career at Optimum, my manager has been invested in my professional and personal growth. She immediately encouraged me to seize opportunities for advancement. I receive regular coaching and feedback which is an integral factor in my growth. Optimum’s employee focus is very important to me. I value having an employer who is a committed partner in my success and development.

Heather Wise

From the outset of my career at Optimum, my manager has been invested in my professional and personal growth. She immediately encouraged me to seize opportunities for advancement. […]

Accessible leaders

Accessible leaders outlined

Cohesive and coherent teams

Cohesive and coherent teams outlined

Optimum is a family-oriented company, and it’s a great place to establish your career. I enjoy serving our clients by paying special attention to them and providing my expertise. Our ability to communicate with our clients according to their needs is invaluable. I have a great boss that allows me to share my opinion and provides feedback. I work with dedicated colleagues and as a team we get the job done!

Beatrice Mendoza

Optimum is a family-oriented company, and it’s a great place to establish your career. I enjoy serving our clients by paying special attention to them and providing my expertise. […]

Strong, performing and privately-owned financial group

Strong, performing and privately-owned financial group outlined

Optimum is a solid company. The integrity and expertise of its employees are top-notch. I feel very fortunate to work for a company that values its employees and allows them to grow to their full potential. I’m surrounded by people who encourage and appreciate new ideas. I also consider Optimum to be my second family”. The fellowship and support that I’ve received over the years have been unwavering.

Marianne Strong

Optimum is a solid company. The integrity and expertise of its employees are top-notch. […]

Optimum is an economically stable company where reigns great harmony between management team members, which is important to me. The leaders’ door is always wide open to ask a question or share a comment. Despite their busy schedule, they are always available to meet with me.

Josée Therrien

Optimum IT Solutions

Optimum is an economically stable company where reigns great harmony between management team members, which is important to me. […]

High excellence standards

High excellence standards outlined

Optimum is a great family where performance rimes with pleasure and teamwork. I’m privileged to have a boss who trust the depth of my expertise, which allows me to innovate, and who passionately conveys the organizational culture and vision for the future. The head office being in Montréal, the challenges are intellectually stimulating with an international scope. My experience here is that senior leadership is enthusiastic and agile.

Stéphanie Berthiaume

Optimum Financial Group

Optimum is a great family where performance rimes with pleasure and teamwork. […]

From the onset, I have been welcomed into the underwriting team with open arms. My colleagues have been quick to offer tips and support as I learn my role and responsibilities. I have been amazed at the way this company takes care of its own. Managers and Directors lead from a position of trust and confidence in their team members and that makes a big difference. They truly value the opinion and the professional development of their team members. I’ve participated in several conferences, special projects and life insurance courses (LOMA), all with the full support of my management.

Patrick McKinnon

From the onset, I have been welcomed into the underwriting team with open arms. My colleagues have been quick to offer tips and support as I learn my role and responsibilities. […]

Respecting hierarchy is highly important for me. In my previous work experiences, I worked with nearly inaccessible leaders. At Optimum, the availability and accessibility of our leaders is a major asset which reinforces the idea that each employee plays a key role in the company.

Fiona Coquin

Optimum Consulting, Actuarial, Asset Management and IT

Respecting hierarchy is highly important for me. In my previous work experiences, I worked with nearly inaccessible leaders. […]

In the private wealth team, I found a family spirit, great latitude, foolproof rigor and enormous flexibility for our clients, who are given a central place in our organization. It’s on this basis that we have structured the proximity-oriented service for private clients that we offer today, enabling us to diversify our valued client base. We can all be proud of the accomplished work.

Sylvain Tremblay

Optimum Asset Management

In the private wealth team, I found a family spirit, great latitude, foolproof rigor and enormous flexibility for our clients, who are given a central place in our organization. […]

Our Commercial Lines team is proud to have transitioned to a paperless environment in 2019. This monumental accomplishment is an excellent example of how various Optimum departments can develop creative solutions and achieve milestone results. Being paperless increases workflow efficiencies, enhances security of file documentation, reduces business costs and promotes environmental conscientiousness.

Linda Spiel

Our Commercial Lines team is proud to have transitioned to a paperless environment in 2019. […]

International mobility

International mobility outlined

At Optimum, I learned and evolved so much as an actuary. The diverse responsibilities, the accessibility and proximity of experienced resources and the close collaboration between employees and leaders on several files have greatly contributed to my professional development. I also had the opportunity to work during three years in France at Optimum Vie. This experience was rewarding both professionally and personally.

Khanh Nguyen

At Optimum, I learned and evolved so much as an actuary. […]

Human scale

Human scale outlined

Working at Optimum means evolving in an environment with many and varied development opportunities. The management team puts a constant and personalized attention to the fulfillment of its greatest resource: its employees. If you wish to tackle stimulating challenges in a solid financial group that remains on a human scale, Optimum is an excellent choice!

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Working at Optimum means evolving in an environment with many and varied development opportunities. […]

Claude Gauthier

I had the privilege of working with our founders during the past 29 years. At first in our legal department, then led by Mr. Gilles Demers, caring and cultivated man, who showed great respect for his team members. In his department, rigor was in order but, the most important he said, was to stay in a good mood. His successor, Mr. Louis Fontaine, embodies these principles. What characterizes him, is that a problem must remain small, unless you can solve it. Later on, I worked for Mr. Gilles Blondeau and Mr. Henri Joli-Coeur on the executive team. The relational aspect of Mr. Joli-Coeur would enable him to keep an eye on each employee like a good father. His door was always open to whoever wanted to confide in him. Furthermore, there was the traditional round of Mr. Blondeau when he returned from a business trip to shake hands with employees, seizing the opportunity to ask them if they were happy at work and if their family and health were doing well. These great men who have built the Optimum Group passed on to me insightful learnings.

Francine Pagé

I had the privilege of working with our founders during the past 29 years. At first in our legal department, then led by Mr. […]

I began my career at Optimum fresh out of university after completing my bachelors in actuarial science. Leadership always believed in me and offered many opportunities for professional development. Over the years, I have demonstrated my capabilities and progressed within the company since I’m now in a Vice President position. I’m the proof that it is possible to build a great career at Optimum!

OAC - Amélie Bouthillier

I began my career at Optimum fresh out of university after completing my bachelors in actuarial science. Leadership always believed in me and offered many opportunities for professional development. […]

Amélie Bouthillier

Entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial mindset

Entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial mindset outlined

Optimum is without a doubt one of the professional experiences that revealed my ability to undertake a variety of tasks that I never knew I could do. The confidence granted by the management team and the associated responsibilities allowed me to surpass myself like never before.

Lucia Baldino

Optimum Gestion financière

Optimum is without a doubt one of the professional experiences that revealed my ability to undertake a variety of tasks that I never knew I could do. […]

After occupying roles as an actuary and then as a business development consultant, I wished to enhance my professional growth within the Optimum organization. The management team fully supported my return to school, allowing me to obtain my MBA which reinforced the skills that are now very useful in my position as Assistant Vice President. My own manager guides and encourages me on a daily basis in my career development and provides me with the tools I need to succeed.

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After occupying roles as an actuary and then as a business development consultant, I wished to enhance my professional growth within the Optimum organization. […]

Jonathan Clermont

As a leader at Optimum, I have been thoroughly impressed by the level of interaction with the leadership teams. Members from several different departments have gone out of their way to contact me with warm welcomes. They have provided valuable guidance and support through the process of understanding and accessing the various resources required to lead my team. It has truly been a wonderful initiation to the Optimum family.

Ryan Campbell

As a leader at Optimum, I have been thoroughly impressed by the level of interaction with the leadership teams. […]

The past 6 years at Optimum have been amazing. I am grateful to work for a company that treats me like a human being and not an employee number; it is priceless and I would not trade it for anythingin the world. I truly appreciate the family atmosphere, which is hard to find in the workplace nowadays. I enjoyed each event the company organize for employees year after year.

Mariam Bohanon

The past 6 years at Optimum have been amazing. […]

In the job for over 4 years, I particularly appreciate the human scale at Optimum. Its medium size offers each employee on a daily basis a diversity of tasks, flexibility, proximity and accessible leaders. I am convinced that these advantages are drivers of a better communication which positively impacts our activities.

Sandra Bricoteau

Optimum Life Insurance

In the job for over 4 years, I particularly appreciate the human scale at Optimum. […]

As a company that prides itself on “the strength of expertise,” I can surely attest to this throughout my longstanding career journey with Optimum. I am proud to be working with a team of dedicated, talented, and knowledgeable underwriting experts.&nbsp;This has allowed me ample opportunity to grow as a professional as well as an individual. Within the organization, I have always witnessed a collaborative culture&nbsp;and a management which is sincerely focused on the growth of its people.

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As a company that prides itself on “the strength of expertise,” I can surely attest to this throughout my longstanding career journey with Optimum. […]

Larisa Emes

I started at the Optimum BC office during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, I was still quickly and warmly welcomed by peers and colleagues. With&nbsp;a smaller office, it has been very easy to reach out to other departments for advice and questions, which is very helpful. The Optimum team here strives to provide&nbsp;creative solutions for supportive brokers, but the management team is even more supportive of our internal staff. I really enjoy the family-like atmosphere of our BC office.

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I started at the Optimum BC office during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, I was still quickly and warmly welcomed by peers and colleagues. […]

Tiffany Wong

I have worked my way up at Optimum for&nbsp;almost 25 years, from Underwriting Assistant&nbsp;to Commercial Lines Supervisor for the Ontario&nbsp;region. My professional growth was made possible&nbsp;by Optimum’s investment in my training and&nbsp;Chartered Insurance Professional education. My&nbsp;colleagues saw something in me that I didn’t even&nbsp;see myself; that faith and encouragement changed&nbsp;my trajectory. To work in this kind of professional&nbsp;environment, where coworkers share experiences&nbsp;and work with you to grow your own understanding&nbsp;and abilities, makes my work life very interesting&nbsp;and always informative. That is teamwork in its&nbsp;truest sense—a company that is there to assist if&nbsp;you require additional support in whatever form.

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I have worked my way up at Optimum for&nbsp;almost 25 years, from Underwriting Assistant&nbsp;to Commercial Lines Supervisor for the Ontario&nbsp;region. […]

Pauline Pangos

I appreciate my experience at Optimum, it is so enjoyable to work in a friendly&nbsp;and positive environment. Every day&nbsp;is an opportunity for me to learn and&nbsp;grow in my professional life. We have great conversations which facilitate knowledge and skills transfer internally.

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I appreciate my experience at Optimum, it is so enjoyable to work in a friendly&nbsp;and positive environment. Every day&nbsp;is an opportunity for me to learn and&nbsp;grow in my professional life. […]

Mélanie Lanteigne

My long tenure with Optimum has awarded me the experience of many intricacies of Reinsurance. From operations, actuarial, underwriting, treaties, and product development, I have been fortunate to work with the best industry has to offer and for an amazing company founded on strong financial principles.&nbsp;

Terrence TJ Weiser

My long tenure with Optimum has awarded me the experience of many intricacies of Reinsurance. […]

Terrence Weiser

As reinsurance underwriter for 11 years,&nbsp;I have experience with a wide range of cases in terms of product type, medical/financial history, or targeted markets. I have to thank my growth of expertise in the area of underwriting from working with Optimum’s large portfolio of client companies over the years.&nbsp;

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As reinsurance underwriter for 11 years,&nbsp;I have experience with a wide range of cases in terms of product type, medical/financial history, or targeted markets. […]

Kevin Cheng

Starting my career with Optimum has given me the opportunity to work closely with senior management. This helped me learn not only the actuarial side of pricing life reinsurance but the business side as well.

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Starting my career with Optimum has given me the opportunity to work closely with senior management. […]

Jacob Oates

After 30 years in the industry, I’ve had&nbsp;the benefit of working with fantastic people in the direct, brokerage, vendor, risk management, project and legal areas of several of the large carriers. &nbsp;I am now fortunate to experience the reinsurance side of the industry, at an amazing company, with talented people.&nbsp;

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After 30 years in the industry, I’ve had&nbsp;the benefit of working with fantastic people in the direct, brokerage, vendor, risk management, project and legal areas of several of the large carriers. […]

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