We are looking for an experienced senior personal lines insurance practitioner to join WTW as a Personal Lines Product, Pricing and Underwriting Associate Director. You will join our UK and Ireland general insurance practice within the wider Insurance Consulting and Technology (“ICT”) division, to help us to grow and develop our pricing advisory capability. You will work beside some of the market’s top thought leaders, designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions to the challenges faced by the UK’s leading general insurers and intermediaries.
This will be across the range of personal lines products and distribution channels with a particular focus on cutting edge pricing and analytics, as we continue to enhance and strengthen our broader Product, Pricing and Underwriting offerings to clients.
In your role you will be helping our broad range of UK personal lines clients, from start-ups to established brands, by:
1. Delivering best in class pricing, underwriting, and portfolio and product management capability, alongside best practice reviews
2. Designing appropriate analytics and helping to build effective pricing models, tools and processes which use a wide range of analytical techniques
3. Supporting the design and delivery of appropriate underwriting approaches in line with client portfolio management strategy
4. Designing and building sophisticated MI and portfolio management capabilities
5. Leveraging your market knowledge in developing cutting edge personal lines pricing solutions in collaboration with various teams from across WTW
The Role
6. Build and develop a market profile as a representative and advocate of WTW consulting services and technology solutions
7. Be an expert on the full end-to-end personal lines proposition and back-office functions relevant to Product, Pricing and Underwriting within the team, supporting colleagues with awareness of issues relevant to those areas
8. Manage workstreams within large projects, overseen by senior colleagues but with responsibility for communication with clients and the day-to-day running of projects
9. Work collaboratively across a range of projects and internal management and innovation responsibilities, managing priorities and resources appropriately
10. Develop a trusted advisor relationship with client contacts through effective communication and efficient, high-quality execution of client work
11. Willingly and energetically become involved across a variety of work to ensure that a broad skill set (technical, management and client) is maintained and developed
12. Interface with colleagues from other specialisms, practices and regions on assignments that reflect a client’s broader business challenges and needs
13. Contribute to the development of the company’s intellectual capital including the plans for taking this to market
14. Develop and present proposals to potential clients, demonstrating the commercial value of our offerings
15. Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams
16. Opportunity to serve as line manager or mentor to more junior associates