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Actuarial Portfolio Manager, Structured Portfolio Solutions

Markel International

London

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GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Actuarial Portfolio Manager to join their dynamic Structured Portfolio Solutions team. This role focuses on driving best-in-class portfolio management through strategic data strategies and actuarial analyses. You'll leverage market data to provide insights and recommendations, collaborating with various support units to achieve business priorities. The position promises a meaningful impact in the specialty insurance market, offering opportunities for career development and a robust benefits package. If you're passionate about data-driven decision-making and portfolio optimization, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Annual bonus

25 days paid holiday

Company pension scheme

Private medical and dental cover

Life assurance

Travel insurance cover

Income protection

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

Strong analytical depth and ability to problem-solve independently.
Experience in influencing stakeholders and ensuring consensus.

Responsibilities

Provide actuarial analyses for pricing, reserving, and reinsurance.
Develop strategic analytics and tools to optimize portfolios.

Skills

Multi-modal communication skills

Data visualization skills

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in Actuarial Science or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

SQL

Data visualization programs

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Looking for a role that will have a meaningful impact on Structured Portfolio Solutions?

We are looking for an individual to join our newly created Structured Portfolio Solutions (SPS) team. This role will drive best-in-class Portfolio Management by owning the strategic data strategy.

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

The opportunity:

The Portfolio Analytics team is a multi-functional empowered, creative and autonomous team within Markel International. Embedded within the underwriting business and represented in the Leadership Team, we focus on critical areas to achieve profitability and performance targets for a specialty lines insurer: Portfolio Management, Data, Analytics and Insights, and Pricing Model development.

The SPS team is designed to take advantage of the market trend towards bifurcation between lead and follow underwriting capacity. This standalone team aims to build a robust follow portfolio with a class-agnostic Underwriting strategy whilst leveraging the data benefits this provides. Facilities written within this team are cross-class and will contain CAT exposures.

What you’ll be doing:

In this role, you'll be responsible for providing actuarial analyses, including pricing, reserving, and reinsurance purchasing, to guide the strategy of the new Structured Portfolio Solutions (SPS) team. You'll also help build and maintain data pipelines to ensure efficient and up-to-date analysis.

You'll leverage market data to provide insights across Markel International and make recommendations to improve analyses and tools, enabling SPS underwriters to manage their portfolio effectively. Leading the development of the portfolio management framework for the SPS class and monitoring key performance drivers will be crucial to support underwriting and enhance performance.

Additionally, you'll develop strategic analytics, tools, and insights to optimize portfolios and advocate for data-driven decision-making. Collaboration with various support units, such as actuarial, underwriting operations, and ITS, will be essential to resolve issues and achieve business priorities. You'll also represent the Portfolio Analytics team, providing accurate and timely management information to leadership.

Our must-haves:

Great multi-modal communications skills along with strong data visualisation skills for disseminating management information to various levels across Markel
Demonstrable experience in influencing and engaging with stakeholders using effective communication and ensuring consensus
Able to clearly articulate complex strategies, techniques and ideas to senior leadership and underwriters across multiple product lines
Possess both strong analytical depth, the ability to independently problem solve and put forward recommendations
Understanding of Markel International products, classes of business and operations of the specialty insurance market
Proven track record of successfully leading and delivering to agreed timelines projects and initiatives that require involvement from business leaders across the company
Possess a detailed solid understanding of the Microsoft office suite, with a focus on Excel and become comfortable with manipulating and analysing large, complex sets of data.
Experience with data visualisation programmes, database use (SQL) and an awareness of advanced analytics/data science would be desirable but not essential.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you?

A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.

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