Actuarial Senior Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Location : Remote (with occasional travel to client sites and Athena hub cities)

Type : Full-Time, Salaried

What You’ll Do 🔍

As an Actuarial Senior Manager at Athena, you’ll act as a lead consultant and account manager—driving projects from proposal to presentation and collaborating directly with internal and external stakeholders. You’ll help shape the future of our healthcare practice while developing high-performing teams and delivering client solutions that make a difference.

Key responsibilities include :

Lead and manage client accounts—ranging from small analyses to large consulting engagements

Serve as day-to-day client contact and strategic advisor, ensuring high-quality deliverables and alignment with client goals

Guide actuarial modeling, analysis, and review processes to ensure accuracy and consistency

Demonstrate listening, writing and speaking skills required to effectively and empathetically address diverse technical and nontechnical audiences in both formal and informal settings

Mentor and manage junior staff, supporting their growth through training and feedback

Partner with the leadership team to build and grow the healthcare areas of practice and develop the team that supports the impactful work we do for our clients

Assist with new business development, including attending / speaking at relevant industry conferences, writing articles and insight pieces for Athena’s website and outside publications, and assisting with proposal evaluation, drafting and review

Demonstrate exemplary levels of personal and professional integrity, and ability to support and promote Athena’s mission and values

Participate in Athena strategy meetings and providing feedback on Athena community initiatives

What We’re Looking For ✅

Must-Haves :

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of experience

Healthcare experience, which can include Medicaid, Tricare, employer health, etc.

ASA or FSA certification

Expertise in Actuarial Modeling, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word

In depth experience in Client and / or Project management

Successful experience in a consulting environment, managing multiple clients and accounts

Experience managing a team, creative problem-solving skills to identify flexible solutions to business questions

Insatiable curiosity and interest in learning new things

Experience and desire in developing junior resources through training and day-to-day collaboration

Proven track record in identifying new sales opportunities and driving revenue growth by strengthening existing client relationships.

Ability to work independently in a remote environment and travel to client locations

Passion for growing a business from the bottom up through business development and strategic efforts

Role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a federal public trust clearance

Nice-to-Haves :

Experience with rate setting and related methodologies

Experience with health plan comparisons

Risk adjustment / scoring experience

Experience with Federal Health Agencies (e.g., HHS, CMS, AHRQ, etc.)

Experience in proposal writing or thought leadership publication

Involvement in industry conferences or speaking engagements

Familiarity with programming tools like SAS, SQL, or MacroVB

Why Athena?

At Athena, we believe actuarial consulting and specialty advisory services is more than just calculating risk : It’s a lens for reimagining what’s possible. That’s why we’ve built a team of passionate experts who infuse the power of data and predictive modeling with imagination, human insight, and a commitment to helping people thrive.

Every day at Athena, we seek to live and lead—to serve and solve problems—with courage as our fuel. That means challenging assumptions in search of untapped potential that benefits our clients. It looks like striving to ask better questions that might yield breakthrough answers for a community. And it means seeing people not as problems, but full of possibility—because we know the future isn’t prescribed, it’s built. Courage is a competitive advantage in actuarial consulting—not just because it emboldens people, but because it moves businesses forward.

Athena is a new kind of actuarial services company, founded by a former leader at a ”Big 4” firm who had a vision and drive to build something different. We tackle big challenges with small teams of experienced pros who look beyond traditional risk modeling to find innovative solutions.

Perks & Benefits

Flexible Time Off policy

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

Short- and Long-Term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Life Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Competitive actuarial exam support program

Additional Info

Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status

Compensation Range : $135K - $160K