We are looking for an experienced senior personal lines insurance practitioner, with specific experience in the UK general insurance Household market, to join WTW as a Personal Lines Product, Pricing and Underwriting 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 broad product, pricing and underwriting advisory capability. You will work beside some of the market’s top thought leaders, designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions to the wide range of portfolio management challenges faced by the UK’s leading general insurers and intermediaries.
This will be across the range of personal lines products with a particular focus on those critical areas of underwriting business beyond the technical models, as we continue to enhance and strengthen our broader Product, Pricing and Underwriting offerings to clients.
In your role you will be helping our wide range of UK personal lines clients by:
1. Delivering best in class pricing, underwriting, and portfolio and product management capability, alongside process reviews
2. Supporting the design and delivery of appropriate underwriting approaches in line with client portfolio management strategy
3. Designing and building sophisticated MI and portfolio management capabilities
4. Designing appropriate analytics and helping to build effective pricing models, tools and processes using a wide range of data science techniques
5. Leveraging your market knowledge by developing and selling cutting edge personal lines underwriting and product management solutions in collaboration with various teams from across WTW
The Role
6. Build and develop a strong 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. Lead and manage projects, including communication with clients and the day-to-day running of them
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. Identify and pursue potential client engagements, including relationship building, listening to challenges, crafting scopes of work, and bringing together the right project teams, demonstrating the commercial value of our offerings including discussing and demonstrating applications of WTW’s technology products
12. Proactively seek out opportunities to be involved in a variety of work to ensure that a broad skill set (technical, management, and client) is maintained and developed
13. Interface with colleagues from other specialisms, practices and regions on assignments that reflect a client’s broader business challenges and needs building relationships internally and collaborating effectively on cross-functional teams
14. Contribute to the development of the company’s intellectual capital, in particular the plans for taking any new solutions to market
15. Serve as line manager or mentor to more junior colleagues