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About the Role
Support the Catastrophe Modelling and Exposure Management team by delivering high-quality catastrophe analytics to underpin disciplined underwriting decisions, support risk selection and pricing, and contribute to strong and sustainable underwriting performance. The International Portfolio Analytics (IPA) team is a dynamic, multi-functional group supporting all divisions of Markel International, focusing on Portfolio Management, Pricing Transformation, Advanced Analytics, and Catastrophe & Exposure Management. The team's mission is to enable consistent underwriting profitability and superior financial outcomes through data-driven analytical support. This role involves pre-underwriting analytics, class and entity level reporting, ad-hoc analysis, and view of risk development across natural catastrophe and anthropogenic risks.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain strong relationships with divisional underwriters.
- Provide ad hoc analytics for underwriting portfolio analysis and reporting for senior executives.
- Utilize third-party catastrophe models and in-house tools for pre-underwriting analysis.
- Present results and ideas to senior stakeholders and underwriting teams.
- Collaborate with colleagues in other Markel offices and the wider portfolio analytics team.
- Liaise with outsourcing partners and model vendors.
- Assist in team projects and initiatives, including view of risk development.
- Assist in producing internal and external reporting, including to Lloyds and the PRA.
Requirements
- Proven catastrophe modelling or aggregation management experience in the London market.
- Strong understanding of industry-standard catastrophe models (Verisk preferred).
- Strong appetite to think creatively and challenge modelling assumptions and processes.
- Excellent IT skills.
- Good knowledge of SQL and/or Python.
- Proven experience with catastrophe management best practices and portfolio level aggregation techniques.
- Experience building and maintaining successful relationships with internal and external contacts.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
Skills
- Catastrophe modelling
- Aggregation management
- Industry-standard models (Verisk)
- Problem-solving
- Creative thinking
- IT skills
- SQL
- Python
- Catastrophe management best practices
- Portfolio level aggregation techniques
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Project management
Location
- London market
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible working patterns
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- Great starting salary
- Annual bonus
Benefits
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
- Company pension scheme
- Private medical cover
- Dental cover
- Life assurance
- Travel insurance cover
- Income protection
- Season ticket loan
- Opportunities for learning new skills and career development
About the Company
- Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) is a Fortune 500 company.
- Operates with over 60 offices in 20+ countries.
- Holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations.
- Company values: people-centric, collaborative, striving for improvement, enjoying the everyday, forward-thinking.
Equal Opportunity
- Markel celebrates a diverse workforce.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with disabilities during the job application, interview process, and to perform essential job functions.
- Contact rec@markel.com or 0161 507 5827 for accommodation requests, including alternative formats or offline application information.