A senior leadership role building and leading pricing and underwriting analytics to support strategic decision-making, profitability, and sustainable growth within a specialty insurer. Partnering closely with senior underwriting leadership, you will shape analytics-driven pricing strategy, influence key decisions, develop scalable frameworks, and lead a team delivering insight across products and market cycles.
This senior analytics leadership role is responsible for shaping how pricing and underwriting insight is developed and applied across a specialty insurance platform. The position plays a critical role in supporting underwriting strategy, enhancing risk assessment, and improving portfolio performance through advanced analytics and structured decision support.
Working in close partnership with underwriting and product leadership, the role drives the evolution of analytical capabilities that inform pricing, risk selection, and portfolio management. The focus is on building scalable frameworks, embedding insight into day-to-day decision-making, and ensuring analytics meaningfully influence commercial outcomes.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the development and application of pricing and underwriting analytics to support portfolio performance and growth.
- Translate complex data and analysis into clear, actionable insight for underwriting and product leaders.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to support strategic initiatives and inform business planning.
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing analytics team, setting clear standards and priorities.
- Oversee the design and evolution of analytical tools, models, and frameworks used across the business.
- Monitor market and portfolio trends to identify opportunities, risks, and areas for improvement.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a trusted advisor to underwriting and product leadership.
- Foster strong collaboration across analytics, underwriting, data, and technology teams.
- Represent the analytics function internally and support engagement with external partners where required.
Experience & Profile
- Significant experience in insurance analytics, pricing, underwriting, or related functions.
- Strong technical background with experience working with complex datasets and analytical models.
- Proven people leadership experience, with a track record of building and developing teams.
- Ability to balance technical depth with commercial and strategic thinking.
- Confident communicator able to influence senior stakeholders using insight and data.
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, evolving environment with competing priorities.
