We are seeking a dedicated and innovative Quality Assurance Analyst to join our forward-thinking software team. As a key player within our agile scrum teams, you will ensure that all products and services align with our high standards and meet end-user needs. This role offers a vibrant opportunity to lead and shape the future of software quality assurance within our organization.   What You Will Do:   Engage Collaboratively: Actively engage in all facets of the agile process, from daily stand-ups to sprint reviews, bringing your expertise to enhance our project delivery.   Lead and Innovate: Spearhead the development and continual refinement of quality assurance testing standards, tailored to modern best practices and evolving technology landscapes.   Partner and Evaluate: Collaborate with vendors and stakeholders to assess new applications and systems, ensuring alignment with our goals and quality expectations.   Audit and Improve: Conduct meticulous internal audits, leading the charge to uphold and enhance our established software development and integration standards.   Test and Validate: Craft and execute comprehensive test plans and scripts, aimed at optimizing application performance and ensuring end-user satisfaction.   Mentor and Guide: Offer your seasoned expertise as a mentor and coach to budding Quality Assurance Analysts, fostering a learning environment, and strengthening our team’s capabilities.

The Business Development Director will work to strengthen and manage agency relationships while professionally representing MEC in the marketplace. You will work closely with your team to effectively communicate MEC’s value proposition to customers, agency partners, and prospects.   Key functions include but are not limited to:    Agency education and development - Develop regular contact via in person visits, web meetings, and other communications in order to develop strong relationships with agency production sources in assigned region - Educate and develop regional business partners to effectively communicate MEC’s value proposition - Implement agency development plan to meet retention, growth, and profitability goals within assigned region New business development - Research and identify high quality prospective accounts that meet MEC’s risk/reward profile to create and maintain a perpetual pipeline of qualified prospects - Strategically educate and develop new business opportunities to make the buying decision based upon MEC’s value proposition - Support and assist teams with gathering information needed to accurately evaluate performance and exposure of accounts - Develop marketing strategies in order to effectively communicate MEC’s value prop Account retention - Support and assist regional team with account renewal strategy - Support and assist regional team with establishing expectations in the marketplace Industry representation - Maintain visibility in the marketplace - Meet with state insurance regulators

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will focus on leveraging the company’s substantial data assets to deliver actionable and meaningful business insights using analytics, predictive models, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technology background with mid-to-advanced level expertise in data analytics and building (and deploying) predictive models. We are looking for a highly motivated individual with the ability to help us deliver next-generation solutions.   This position requires improving and supporting our applications infrastructure, writing code, analyzing data, creating models, creating ad-hoc apps/reports/dashboards, working with both internal and external customers, participating in project management and execution, and leading small individual and team projects. The Advanced Analytics team members are passionate about continuous learning and turning that knowledge into cutting-edge analytical solutions. We strive to deliver innovative analytical solutions that generate tangible business results.   Key functions include but are not limited to the following:   - Develop, test, deploy, and help monitor analytics products and predictive models including data engineering, data analysis, and AI/ML/NLP. - Service the analytical needs of internal and external customers by providing high-value analysis, reports, dashboards, and/or electronic files as needed. - Execute and participate in leading high-value data science projects including defining project deliverables, estimating timelines, estimating expected business value, assigning project tasks, and ensuring efficient execution and proper documentation from ideation through business integration. - Help implement automated solutions to monitor and maintain the performance of the team’s analytical products. Identify when model retraining or new solutions are needed. - Design and execute well-documented experiments to identify novel uses of internal and external data to deliver business value. - Keep up to date with AI and ML best practices as relates to MEC’s initiatives and share key insights with the team. - Help design, evangelize, and continuously improve group best practices. - Conduct formal peer reviews of data science projects from other team members. - Work on cross-functional teams within MEC and across the larger corporation to develop and implement novel analytics and data science solutions. - Provide mentorship to junior team members. - Create and deliver presentations to internal and external customers as needed.

The Captives Underwriter is responsible for the appropriate underwriting of new and renewal WC/AL/GL captive programs. This includes executing objectives related to production and profitability goals; demonstrating underwriting discipline; appropriately underwriting accounts; effectively negotiating with brokers; and consistently delivering MEC’s value proposition.   Key functions include but are not limited to:   Responsibly manage assigned captive programs in order for MEC to attain profitability and growth objectives: - Maintain awareness of MEC’s financial forecast plan and work closely with team members to achieve the plan. - Meet or exceed renewal account retention, premium, and loss ratio goals. - Meet or exceed new business premium and loss ratio goals. - Exhibit commitment and coordinate with the Captives business development staff to achieve growth objectives. Consistently demonstrate underwriting discipline through adherence to MEC’s underwriting approach and guidelines: - Demonstrate sound technical knowledge regarding primary and excess/deductible workers’ compensation, auto liability, and general liability insurance. - Demonstrate sound technical knowledge regarding underwriting risk analysis, actuarial analysis, collateral analysis, NCCI/ISO policy forms, endorsements, and IT applications. - Demonstrate excellent knowledge of captive programs and how each program is developed. - Demonstrate excellent knowledge of MEC’s agreements associated with captive programs. - Appropriately manage assigned captive programs via thorough analysis of risk, establishment of appropriate terms, and appropriate documentation to support analysis and terms. - Demonstrate excellent negotiation skills to achieve account-level goals. - Timely and appropriately manage captive member underwriting referrals. - Adhere to underwriting department policies, guidelines, and authority levels. - Submit referrals to MEC Underwriting Management, as required, including key account information and recommendations. Develop relationships and deliver exceptional customer service to our brokers, captive managers, and customers: - Demonstrate in-depth knowledge regarding assigned captive programs, captive managers, and brokers. - Maintain excellent working relationships with assigned brokers/captive managers, and further develop to utilize MEC’s value proposition in the positioning of new and renewal accounts. - Leverage relationships to drive new business and renewal retention opportunities. - Develop and execute upon a relationship/service plan for assigned captive programs. - Meet or exceed service standards to our broker partners regarding submission management, quote due dates, responsiveness to communications, and addressing questions/requests. Consistently demonstrate knowledge and utilization of MEC’s value proposition and services: - Remain knowledgeable and up to date regarding MEC resources, services, and outcomes of recommended services: - MEC Claims Advantage services. - XCEL Analytics services. - Demonstrate ability to identify services that would potentially be of most value to customers. MEC Strategic Initiatives and WRB Initiatives - Remain knowledgeable of MEC’s strategic initiatives and participate as a team member, where needed, in the development/execution of strategic tactics. - Remain knowledgeable of WRB’s corporate initiatives and participate as a team member, where needed.

MEC has a friendly, results-focused work environment. Are you detail oriented and an expert in math and analytical skills?  Able to prioritize and complete multiple assignments, have strong customer service skills, dependable and like working as part of a team? Are you looking for a team that values your experience, unique perspective and creativity?   This position will be part of a diverse team of experts utilizing your communication, analytical, and technical skills to support Special Projects / Research and the Reserving function of the organization and provide recommendations to stakeholders. You will also gain exposure to our other Actuarial functions, including Pricing, Forecasting, and Modeling. The Actuarial department at MEC owns and maintains several core products, including our proprietary loss cost estimation model and a model that generates policyholder impacts under a variety of in-force and what-if scenarios. Both are critical to the success of our company and this position will play a key role in supporting both. In addition, this role will play an important part in supporting company-wide forward-looking strategic projects.   The Associate Actuary’s role is to take the lead in coordinating, preparing, performing, and communicating increasingly complex statistical and actuarial analyses required to estimate expected losses for insurance products on an individual policy level or across the entire portfolio and/or project future financial results. This role will also participate in both internal and cross-departmental strategic projects that further support MEC’s success. While this role will immediately support our Special Projects / Research and Reserving functions, you will also have the future opportunity to work with our other functional areas within the MEC Actuarial department. What you will do: - Use best practices to determine appropriate analysis and perform moderate to highly complex analyses, using creative actuarial and statistical techniques, including proper documentation and evaluation, as appropriate to inform business decisions - Select, review, use and ensure quality of data used to perform actuarial and statistical services and determine appropriate tool utilization - Provide thought and/or technical leadership, including contributions to improvement, development and innovation, and sometimes serve as a subject matter expert - Plan, implement, manage, and/or contribute on projects that are moderate to highly complex and are of moderate to larger scale using accepted project management standards; this work is primarily self-directed - Communicate analysis results and appropriateness of actuarial/modeling techniques and results to management and non-technical users to inform business decisions - Leverage understanding of insurance business, products, markets and regulatory environments in the creation of business strategies and decisions, building expertise within a specialized area - Mentor less experienced talent