Building the
best team

• Being customer driven
• Building the best team
• Creating a leading specialty insurer in North America
• Continuing to excel
• Making a social impact

Our promise to employees

We have made a promise to our employees – to never compromise on our values of integrity and respect, support them in their career and growth, surround them with inspiring teams, and offer them a financial rewards program that recognizes their success.

We continue to deliver on our promise, implementing several initiatives last year.

• To support employees in growing their career, we launched a mobile-friendly and easy to navigate career site that allows employees and potential employees to apply for a position quickly using their ^®LinkedIn profile, join the Intact Talent Community to receive job alerts, and share jobs with their social networks.
• Our new Learning Management System (CAMPUS) provides employees with a blended learning approach to help them grow and develop their skills, making learning accessible via mobile phones, tablets or laptops.
• We continue to surround our employees with inspiring teams. Our monthly employee webcast allows employees to interact with our Chief Executive Officer and other senior leaders, post questions via a crowd sourcing platform and vote on the top questions that are most important to them.
• As part of our financial rewards package, employees enjoy the benefit of one commute-free day per week under our Flexible Working Arrangements program.

A workplace where everyone makes a difference

Our employees continue to make a difference at work and in the communities where we live and work. Employees spent more than 6,500 hours volunteering and provided support to more than 470 organizations across the country. In addition:

• We raised more than $2.6 million for United Way/Centraide organizations in more than 50 communities nationally. This number includes Intact Foundation’s dollar-for-dollar employee match, focused on helping children living in poverty.
• Intact Financial Corporation contributed more than $6.5 million across the country. This amount includes our investments in climate change resiliency for Canadians and ensuring children living in poverty can access the support they need.

In 2017, women made up more than 40 per cent of Intact’s Board of Directors. At the vice president and above level, women represented more than a third of our leaders in Canada. Every year, we participate in events across the country celebrating our diversity. In June, our LGBT and Allies network hosted 29 workshops across Canada to share with more than 300 employees on being an ally, as part of our diversity celebrations.

Preparing for the future

Each year, we invest approximately $11 million towards employee training and development programs. In 2017, almost 200 employees graduated from our customized leadership programs designed to help them advance their skills and succeed.

As our business grows, we are attracting more top talents and experts with new skill sets such as specialty lines underwriters, mobile app developers, data scientists and software engineers.

Millennials make up 40 per cent of our workforce, and 21 per cent of our employees are under 30 years of age. To attract young professionals, we have built strong relationships with several universities across the country, offering internships in information technology and actuarial sciences. We also give out four scholarships each year, to encourage young professionals, particularly women, to pursue studies in the field of software engineering. Our commercial lines trainee program offers graduates accelerated professional and technical training in two years to give them a head start in commercial insurance.

To stay on the cutting edge of advancements in technology, we have also invested in a number of leading Canadian universities and research institutions in the field of artificial intelligence such as Laval University, IVADO and the Vector Institute.