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About the Role

The Portfolio Manager will provide analytical and actuarial support to the Portfolio Solutions team, leveraging data, pricing, and portfolio management expertise to shape strategy and execute fast follow opportunities. The SPS team focuses on building a strong follow portfolio with a class-agnostic Underwriting strategy, leveraging data benefits and handling cross-class facilities with CAT exposures.

Responsibilities

• Provide actuarial analyses (Pricing, Reserving and Outwards Reinsurance purchasing) to steer the direction and strategy of the new Structured Portfolio Solutions (SPS) team.
• Help to design, build out and maintain appropriate data pipelining to ensure efficient and up-to-date analysis is enabled.
• Utilise market data to provide analysis and share insight to classes across Wholesale outside of the SPS division.
• Make recommendations and improvements to analyses and tools to equip SPS underwriters to actively manage their portfolio.
• Lead the development of the portfolio management framework for the SPS class.
• Actively monitor key drivers of SPS performance, at a class level across the portfolio, to support underwriting in improving performance.
• Develop strategic analytics, tools and insights to optimise portfolios and enable smarter underwriting decisions.
• Be an advocate for the use of data to support decision making.
• Work with other Support Units (actuarial, underwriting operations, ITS, delegated and underwriting support services) to resolve issues and support business priorities.
• Represent the IPA team, providing accurate and timely management information to MINT leadership, wholesale leadership and meetings.

Requirements

• Have outstanding multi-modal communications skills along with strong data visualisation skills for disseminating management information to various levels across Markel.
• Have demonstrable experience in influencing and engaging with stakeholders using effective communication and ensuring consensus.
• Be able to clearly articulate complex strategies, techniques and ideas to senior leadership and underwriters across multiple product lines.
• Possess both strong analytical depth, the ability to independently problem solve and put forward recommendations.
• Have an understanding of the Wholesale products, classes of business and operations of the specialty insurance market.
• Have a proven track record to successfully lead and deliver to agreed timelines projects and initiatives that require involvement from business leaders across the company.
• Possess a detailed solid understanding of the Microsoft office suite, with a focus on Excel.
• Become comfortable with manipulating and analysing large, complex sets of data.

Skills

• Data visualisation
• Excel
• Microsoft office suite
• SQL
• Advanced analytics/data science awareness

Location

• Remote
• Hybrid

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Up to 16% company pension scheme
• Private medical and dental cover
• Menopause plan
• Emergency care benefit (children/Pets/dependants)
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• Electric car scheme
• Travel insurance
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• Opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career

About the Company

• The Structured Portfolio Solutions (SPS) team sits within Markel’s Specialty underwriting division and focuses on building and managing portfolio-based underwriting solutions across multiple lines of business.
• SPS works closely with brokers and strategic partners to develop scalable, data-driven structures that support profitable growth and effective portfolio management.
• Part of Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
• We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
• The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward, reach their full potential and seize opportunities.
• You’ll find your fit amongst our diverse global community of optimists and problem-solvers.
• We’re always pushing each other to think further because we believe that when we strive for better and realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Equal Opportunity

• At Markel we are all about the people, celebrating the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances.
• Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you.
• We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
• We will ensure that individuals are provided with any reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful.
• Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed, including alternative formats of documents or information on how to apply offline.