Head of Analytics

Harnham; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Harnham seeks a Head of Insights & Analytics to partner with underwriting and claims leaders, shaping how analytics and AI drive underwriting performance, portfolio management and customer outcomes. The role leads a small team and influences a broader analytics ecosystem in a major insurer.

You will translate complex business challenges into actionable analytics solutions, prioritise a strategic portfolio and build trusted cross-functional relationships to realise value from data and AI

Qualifications

• Senior analytics leader with experience in insurance/underwriting or claims analytics.
• Ability to translate business challenges into analytics and AI solutions.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes through analytics.

Responsibilities

• Partner with underwriting and claims executives to shape analytics strategy.
• Translate business needs into analytics and AI roadmaps and solutions.
• Drive adoption and value realization across underwriting and claims teams.
• Lead AI-enabled underwriting transformation and generative AI initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Analytics leadership

Underwriting analytics

Claims analytics

BI

Python

AI/ML

Generative AI

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Python

Job description

Head of Insights & Analytics | Insurance

Up to $200,000 + 25%

New York / New Jersey

Harnham is supporting a major specialty insurer undergoing a significant investment in Data, Analytics and AI.

We're seeking a 2x senior analytics leader to act as the strategic partner to:

• Underwriting leadership, shaping how analytics, AI and data products improve underwriting performance, portfolio management and operational decision-making.
• Claims to improve claims outcomes, operational performance, reserving alignment and customer service.

These is a highly visible roles sitting between business and technology, leading a small team while influencing a much broader analytics, engineering and AI ecosystem.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Partnering directly with underwriting or claims executives
• Translating business challenges into analytics and AI solutions
• Driving adoption and value realisation across underwriting / claims teams
• Leading AI-enabled underwriting transformation initiatives and agentic AI across their claims processes
• Prioritising and delivering a strategic analytics portfolio
• Building trusted relationships across commercial stakeholders

We’d like to speak with people who have:

• Insurance or reinsurance experience
• Strong underwriting or claims analytics exposure
• Leadership experience across Analytics, BI, AI or Data Science
• Experience delivering measurable business outcomes through analytics

Tech Environment

Databricks | Power BI | Python | AI/ML | Generative AI

New York / New Jersey preferred (3 days office)