Role Title: Senior Underwriter

Department: Specialty

Team: Market Trackers

Location: London

Type: Permanent

About the Role:

As the London distribution market continues to evolve and the bifurcation of placement amongst our broking partners increases, this role will support the development of our Market Tracker and Portfolio Solutions strategy within LII London and will be responsible for the delivery through our distribution partners.

The role will dual report into the Head of London Specialty and the LII Business Chief Actuary - UK & MENA.

About the Department & Team:

The London Specialty division houses 7 classes of business, Contingency, Entertainment P&C, Equine, Personal Accident, Specie, Terrorism and Market Trackers.

Market Trackers underwrite and manage several new and existing broker portfolios that include multiple product classes.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the development and implementation of LSM Market Tracker distribution strategy.
Proactively analyse Global Risk Solutions, Liberty, Lloyd’s and other market data and insights to support the delivery of analytical tools to identify claims trends, loss ratios, market trends and variables to trading positions and performance across the business segments.
Provide recommendations for portfolio optimisation to increase Liberty profitability and yield within Market Tracker portfolios.
Foster and develop external relationships with key strategic broker partners and other key collaborators to support our strategy.
Support the development and deployment of data analytics and business intelligence solutions to support decision making rules of engagement.
Develop and maintain performance and portfolio dashboards to provide real time insights.
Work closely with cross functional teams to identify and optimize Market Tracker opportunities including Actuarial, Business Development, Claims, MI and Underwriting.
Ensuring consistency and best practice approach to technical rating.
Supporting feedback loops between the business planning process, reserving with pricing.
Compliance and reporting against internal and Regulatory Best Practice pricing and underwriting risk management standards.
Provide the highest quality professional service to the business in all aspects of the above responsibilities.
Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role, and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy, as they relate to your role, is core to LSM's commitment to our Liberty Values, placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity. LSM expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements, and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times. These requirements include the Senior Managers and Certification Regime Conduct Rules, Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Conflicts of Interest, and Whistleblowing.

Skills and Experience:

Experience of working in a non-life pricing team, ideally within the London Market. Relevant experience from consulting, commercial or personal lines also welcome
Strong IT skills – advanced knowledge of MS Excel and the standard MS Office suite is essential. Other experience of working with other big data manipulation and visualisation software such as SQL and Power BI or similar would also be an advantage (although not a starting pre-requisite) for the role, as would analytics coding experience in packages such as R, Python or similar.
Analytical problem solver with outstanding verbal and written skills, communicating with a range of internal and external clients of varying experience, expertise and appreciation of actuarial techniques.
Commercially minded, with gravitas to influence and negotiate on well-considered risk-based decision making.
Proven track record of delegation and people development skills. Ability to work both independently or as part of a wider project team. Flexibility and self-discipline to manage time and competing priorities.
A growth mindset - highly focused, motivated and committed to ongoing personal learning and development.

About Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM)

Liberty Specialty Markets is part of Global Risk Solutions and the broader Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, which is a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.

Our people are key to our success. That is why "Put People First" is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:

Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.
Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.
Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working flexibly.

For more information, please follow the links below:

https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us

https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion

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