Senior VP, Risk & Portfolio Analytics - Strategic Leader

Avoca Risk, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Avoca Risk, LLC in Chicago is seeking a Senior Vice President of Risk & Portfolio Analytics to lead and own analytics across Avoca Risk and its MGAs. The role delivers data-driven portfolio insights, pricing discipline, and performance analytics supporting underwriting strategy, capital allocation, and growth.

The position oversees actuarial oversight, catastrophe modeling, BI, and portfolio management while guiding transformation and scalable analytics initiatives.

Qualifications

• Significant experience within 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 communication and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Education

ACAS/FCAS progress

Tools

SQL

Python

Power BI

RMS

Job description

Avoca Risk, LLC in Chicago is seeking a Senior Vice President of Risk & Portfolio Analytics to lead and own analytics across Avoca Risk and its MGAs. The role delivers data-driven portfolio insights, pricing discipline, and performance analytics supporting underwriting strategy, capital allocation, and growth.

The position oversees actuarial oversight, catastrophe modeling, BI, and portfolio management while guiding transformation and scalable analytics initiatives.