Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics

Unison Risk Advisors; Manchester (NH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Avoca Risk seeks a Senior Vice President of Risk & Portfolio Analytics to lead the analytics capability across its MGAs. This leader will own analytics strategy, governance, and delivery of pricing insights, portfolio analytics, and KPI reporting.

The role combines strategic advisory with hands-on leadership, coordinating with underwriting, finance, technology, and capital stakeholders to enable growth and robust risk analytics.

Qualifications

• Significant experience within insurance, reinsurance, MGA/MGU, or brokerage environments.
• Actuarial foundation with ACAS, FCAS, or equivalent progress preferred.
• Knowledge of ISO-based pricing methodologies and P&C structures; RMS or catastrophe modeling experience.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to build and develop teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics across enterprise MGAs and own analytics strategy, governance, and roadmap.
• Direct deep-dive portfolio analyses, actuarial evaluations, and pricing assessments.
• Oversee catastrophe modeling workflows and exposure analytics using RMS.
• Design and maintain analytics processes, reporting structures and evaluation frameworks.
• Partner with underwriting, finance, technology, and capital stakeholders.
• Deliver management reporting and ad hoc analytics for decision support.

Skills

SQL

Python

Power BI

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Education

ACAS/FCAS progress

Tools

RMS

Job description

Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics- Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics exists to lead and own the analytics capability across Avoca Risk and its affiliated MGAs. The role is accountable for delivering data-driven portfolio insights, pricing discipline, and performance analytics that support underwriting strategy, capital allocation, and business growth. This position owns a critical enterprise capability spanning actuarial oversight, catastrophe modeling, business intelligence, and portfolio management, serving as both a strategic advisor and hands-on leader. The role directly supports organizational growth, underwriting performance, and scalable analytics transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Leadership & Ownership

• Ownership of the enterprise analytics function across all platform MGAs.
• Accountability for analytics strategy, governance, and roadmap execution.
• Acting as a subject matter expert and primarydecision-makerfor portfolio analytics, pricing, and risk insights.
• Partnering with underwriting, finance, technology, and capital stakeholders to align analytics outputs with business needs.

Hands-On Execution & Delivery

• Direct execution of deep-dive portfolio analysis, actuarial evaluations, and pricing assessments.
• Overseeing catastrophe modeling workflows and exposure analytics using RMS and related tools.
• Designing andmaintaininganalytics processes, reporting structures, and evaluation frameworks.
• Supporting product and contract reviews to ensure pricing adequacy and technical soundness.
• Creation and maintenance of portfolio reporting, dashboards, and KPI tracking.
• Ensuring accuracy, quality, and integrity of analytics outputs and data.
• Providing regular management reporting and ad hoc analytics for decision support.
• Monitoring portfolio performance,identifyingrisks, and resolving issues proactively.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Integration

• Partnering with underwriting, finance, and technology teams to integrate analytics into business workflows.
• Translating complex analytics into clear, decision-ready insights for senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Supporting alignment across functions and ensuring analytics outputs meet downstream needs.
• Improving collaboration and resolving cross-functional challenges.

Growth, Change & Special Initiatives

• Leading or supporting growth initiatives, new program launches, and analytics expansion efforts.
• Participating in planning, execution, and delivery of transformation initiatives.
• Building scalable processes and repeatable analytics frameworks.
• Ensuring continuity and alignment during organizational change.

Process Improvement & Best Practices

• Identifyingopportunities to enhance analytics processes, tools, and methodologies.
• Driving automation and scalability across reporting and modeling capabilities.
• Staying current on actuarial, analytics, and insurance industrybestpractices.
• Championing adoption of improved, efficient ways of working.

Center of Excellence (COE) Contribution

• Contributing thought leadership andexpertiseto theanalyticscapability across the enterprise.
• Translating strategy into scalable analytics tools, frameworks, and processes.
• Developing documentation, playbooks, and standards.
• Partnering with functional groups to deliver integrated solutions and support change initiatives.

Accountability

• Delivering effective, scalable, and strategy-aligned analytics outcomes.
• Maintaininghigh standardsof quality, accuracy, and reliability.
• Supporting execution during growth, transformation, and change.
• Building strong cross-functional partnerships and demonstrating ownership and sound judgment in decision-making.

Qualifications

Required

• Significant experiencewithin insurance, reinsurance, MGA/MGU, or brokerage environments.
• Strong actuarial foundation with ACAS, FCAS, or equivalent progress preferred.
• Knowledge of ISO-based pricing methodologies and P&C structures. Experience with RMS or other catastrophe modeling platforms.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to build and develop teams.
• Strong communicationandstakeholderinfluence skills.

Preferred

• Experience leading analytics transformation or enterprise initiatives.
• Advanced certifications in actuarial or analytics disciplines.
• Experienceoperatingin multi-entity or global environments.

Key Competencies

• Strategic &Systems Thinking
• Ownership & Accountability
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Process Design & Continuous Improvement
• Consulting, Influence & Collaboration
• Change Agility
• Business Acumen