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About the Role

Lead a high-functioning team as part of a brand's scale-up. Support brokers in complex transactions, shape the design of a technical stack, and build a globally minded team of specialty analytics experts with high commercial impact. Report to the Head of Data and Analytics (International) and be a key member of the global analytics leadership team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic advisor to clients, providing deep actuarial insight into portfolio performance, risk dynamics, and optimal reinsurance structures.
• Act as a trusted strategic advisor to insurers across a range of initiatives, including growth opportunities, risk management and emerging technologies.
• Support the development of bespoke reinsurance programmes that meet client-specific objectives across risk mitigation, capital relief, and volatility management.
• Establish and deliver on a roadmap of analytical tools to develop best-in class reinsurance analytics tools to support producing brokers with leading advisory and insights.
• Apply actuarial methods to price treaty reinsurance across a range of perils and lines, leveraging exposure data, loss experience, and catastrophe model outputs.
• Lead the delivery and set standards for the team in presenting benchmark analyses that inform negotiations and enhance the credibility of placement strategies with reinsurers.
• Partner closely with brokers to craft analytical placement narratives and support reinsurer engagement during the marketing and negotiation process.
• Adapt modelling outputs and performance indicators to strengthen our value proposition and differentiate our offering in a competitive market.
• Lead the design and build of market-leading analytical tools and methodologies that improve pricing accuracy, workflow efficiency, and client-facing outputs.
• Identify, grow and nurture talent within the team, creating career development opportunities for all colleagues.
• Create a vision and culture for the team around goals and expectations and motivating the team to innovate and enhance processes and analyses.
• Manage multiple priorities and deadlines across the team to ensure timely and effective delivery.
• Navigate ambiguity effectively.
• Support team members with their analytical and technical development while ensuring delivery excellence across the team.
• Develop peer review processes and support the broader capability-building agenda of the analytics function.
• Plan long term deliverables and ensure tasks are planned and completed accordingly and that any delays or complications are communicated early and resolved appropriately.
• Develop trusted relationships with brokers, clients, reinsurers, and internal stakeholders, serving as a critical link between technical insight and commercial strategy.
• Manage timely analytical support to RFP responses, new business pursuits, and long-term client engagement strategies.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Reinsurance with a leading reinsurance broker or global reinsurer is a prerequisite.
• Market figure with deep roots in the London/Bermuda specialty markets.
• Additional experience in US E&S/mid-market is beneficial.
• Degree-qualified professional with significant experience in specialty analytics, reinsurance, insurance, or advisory.
• Extensive experience in leading large teams.
• Deep understanding of treaty reinsurance pricing approaches and portfolio analytics.
• Experience working across multiple lines of business including Property, Casualty, Marine & Energy, Cyber, Credit & Political Risk, or similar classes.
• Experience with catastrophe model interpretation and integrating technical outputs into reinsurance structuring.

Skills

• Subject matter knowledge of trends and practices within the reinsurance industry.
• Knowledge of current market and economic conditions and the risks that these might pose to insurers.
• Deep subject matter knowledge across a range of insurance lines, products, territories and distribution channels.
• Ability to translate actuarial output into business value.
• Client advisory.
• Portfolio insight.
• Pricing techniques, including exposure rating, experience rating, credibility weighting, profit and ROC optimisation relevant to the reinsurance industry.
• Actuarial methods to price treaty reinsurance.
• Leveraging exposure data, loss experience, and catastrophe model outputs.
• Benchmark analyses.
• Analytical placement narratives.
• Reinsurer engagement.
• Modelling outputs and performance indicators.
• Extensive project delivery work on actuarial systems and tools.
• Understanding of the latest emerging technologies including AI, Data Science, Generative AI, Data ingestion.
• Leadership.
• Management.
• Mentoring.
• Quality Assurance.
• Talent identification, growth, and nurturing.
• Team vision and culture creation.
• Motivating teams.
• Process enhancement.
• Prioritization and deadline management.
• Ambiguity navigation.
• Analytical and technical development support.
• Delivery excellence.
• Peer review process development.
• Capability building.
• Long-term deliverable planning.
• Relationship development.
• Commercial strategy linkage.
• RFP support.
• New business pursuit support.
• Client engagement strategy.

Location

• London
• Bermuda

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• Leadership

Education Level

• Degree-qualified

About the Company

• Willis Re combines specialist broking with analytics, modeling and research to help insurers optimize risk transfer, strengthen balance sheets and achieve sustainable growth.
• Our approach is relationship-driven, transparent and outcome-focused.
• At the heart of Willis Re is a focus on delivering the most cutting-edge analytical solutions to enable more informed, better decision-making for risk selection, portfolio optimization, and capital management.
• The launch of Willis Re brings a strategic advantage of being unhindered by legacy, an ability to leverage data, statistical models and advanced technologies with the best knowledge and expertise to deliver more efficient and effective reinsurance outcomes.
• This places Willis Re in a unique position to build a truly analytically driven business, focused on creating solutions for the reinsurance industry that are future led and forward thinking.
• Willis Re will also leverage recognized technical expertise from WTW’s Insurance Consulting & Technology business including their advanced modeling and analytical capabilities.
• Alongside this will be WTW’s Research Network, an award-winning business supporting and influencing science to improve the understanding and quantification of risk.

Equal Opportunity

• Willis Re is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment.
• We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability, orientation, or any other legally protected categories.
• If you have a need that requires accommodation, please email us at talentacquisition@willisre.com