Associate Director - Natural Hazards and Climate Risk Management - 28698

The Emerald Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in London is seeking an experienced natural catastrophe modelling specialist to join their Physical Risk team as an Associate Director. The role involves managing climate risk consulting projects, developing client relationships, and providing subject matter expertise in catastrophe models. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical skills and experience in client management. This opportunity offers a permanent position in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing catastrophe and climate risk consulting projects.
• Strong understanding of business development and presentation skills.
• Background in engineering, construction, science, or mathematics.

Responsibilities

• Develop the Natural Catastrophe and Climate Risk Management Business.
• Manage teams of analysts to ensure timely project delivery.
• Evaluate natural catastrophe models and support actuarial analyses.

Skills

Natural catastrophe modelling

Project management

Client management

Analytical skills

Knowledge of catastrophe models

Tools

RMS

KatRisk

SQL

GIS software

Job description

They have an exciting opportunity for an experienced natural catastrophe modelling specialist to join the Physical Risk team within the Climate Practice at the Company as Associate Director for natural catastrophe and climate risk management consulting projects.

• Location: London
• Category: Catastrophe
• Type: Permanent

Key Duties (Including but not limited to):

• Engage with the Company’s Risk & Broking community as well as external clients to develop the Natural Catastrophe and Climate Risk Management Business with focus on GB, EMEA and APAC. Responsible for developing leads, opportunities and wins and tracking business development pipeline in their CRM system
• Management of catastrophe and climate risk consulting projects (mainly portfolio modelling and single site risk engineering), utilizing catastrophe models of RMS, KatRisk, JBA where necessary. This will involve project management of small teams of analysts to ensure projects are delivered on time, and within budget
• Provide subject matter expertise in the running and evaluation of natural catastrophe models to support in the delivery and technical review of actuarial analyses and wider Risk & Analytics consulting projects
• Strong client management, project management and team leadership skills and in depth understanding of catastrophe and climate risk consulting arena as well as good business development / presentation skills
• Experience in using third party catastrophe models such as RMS, AIR, RQE, KatRisk with a strong understanding of probabilistic and catastrophe modelling concepts
• Strong analytical, engineering, construction, science and/or mathematical-based background with interest in the area of natural hazard and climate risk (including earthquake, wind and flood)
• Knowledge of databases such as SQL or MS Access, VBA, R, any Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software such as Q-GIS, GRASS or Arc GIS etc. would be an advantage