Senior Portfolio Analytics & Underwriting Expert

Skillful; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Work from anywhere days

Private medical cover

Pension matching

Annual leave 25–30 days

WFH setup budget

EV scheme

Parental leave

Learning budget

Job summary

Skillful is hiring for an underwriting analytics role in the UK, combining pricing, data science, and risk modeling to shape real-time underwriting decisions. You will work with the underwriting manager and CIO to refine analytical logic, influencing live policies with data-driven insights.

The role blends heads-down analysis with project leadership, enabling you to own models end-to-end while guiding junior analysts. London or Hampshire, hybrid in-office schedule.

Qualifications

• Breadth across underwriting analytics, pricing, and data science.
• Able to build and deploy models that shape underwriting decisions.
• Able to explain complex findings to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyse portfolio performance and adjust coverage, rates or footprint.
• Build fraud detection models and identify new risk signals at quote.
• Collaborate with underwriters to improve risk assessment.
• Explore non-traditional data sources to sharpen decisions.
• Deploy models into production to influence live underwriting.

Skills

Underwriting analytics

Pricing

Data science

Python

SQL

GBMs

Fraud analytics

Data enrichment

BigQuery

Azure

Tools

BigQuery

Azure

Job description

Skillful is hiring for an underwriting analytics role in the UK, combining pricing, data science, and risk modeling to shape real-time underwriting decisions. You will work with the underwriting manager and CIO to refine analytical logic, influencing live policies with data-driven insights.

The role blends heads-down analysis with project leadership, enabling you to own models end-to-end while guiding junior analysts. London or Hampshire, hybrid in-office schedule.