Associate Director – Natural Hazards and Climate Risk Management – 28698

The Emerald Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Emerald Group is seeking an experienced natural catastrophe modelling specialist to join our Physical Risk team in London as Associate Director. You will lead portfolio modelling and single-site risk work, manage client relationships, and drive business development across GB, EMEA and APAC.

You will oversee project delivery, mentor analysts, and leverage models from RMS, AIR, RQE and KatRisk, while applying a strong quantitative and engineering mindset to climate risk consulting.

Qualifications

• Experience leading catastrophe and climate risk consulting projects.
• Strong understanding of probabilistic catastrophe modelling concepts.
• Experience with third party catastrophe models (RMS/AIR/RQE/KatRisk).

Responsibilities

• Lead natural catastrophe and climate risk consulting projects for GB, EMEA and APAC.
• Manage project teams to deliver on time and within budget.
• Develop leads and manage business development pipeline in CRM.
• Provide SME input for modelling and technical reviews of analyses.

Skills

Client management

Project management

Team leadership

Business development

Presentation skills

Catastrophe modelling

Climate risk modelling

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

Tools

RMS

Air

RQE

KatRisk

SQL

MS Access

VBA

R

GIS (Q-GIS/GRASS/ArcGIS)

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