The Catastrophe and Exposure Management Team deliver a comprehensive suite of analytical services that support informed underwriting decisions and robust risk management practices. The team’s mission is to enable Markel International to achieve consistent underwriting profitability and superior financial outcomes by providing high-quality, data-driven analytical support across the business.
As part of the Catastrophe Modelling and Exposure Management team, you will be supporting Markel International with pre-underwriting analytics, class and entity level reporting, ad-hoc analysis to support underwriting decisions and view of risk development. The role may be required to work over a number of lines of business including both natural catastrophe and anthropogenic risks.
What you’ll be doing
Build and maintain a strong relationship with divisional underwriters.
Provide ad hoc analytics for underwriting portfolio analysis and reporting for senior executives.
Use third party catastrophe models and in-house tools for pre-underwriting analysis.
Present results and ideas to senior stakeholders and underwriting teams.
Collaborate closely with colleagues in other Markel offices and the wider portfolio analytics team.
Liaise closely with outsourcing partners and model vendors.
Assist in team projects and initiatives, such as view of risk development.
Assist in producing reporting for both within the organization and for outside parties, including Lloyds and the PRA.
Our must-haves
Technical Expertise: Catastrophe modelling or aggregation management experience in the London market, with strong understanding of industry-standard models (Verisk preferred).
Problem Solving: Strong appetite to think creatively and challenge modelling assumptions and processes, to improve the quality, timeliness and insights of analytics provided.
Technical Skills: Excellent IT skills with good knowledge of SQL and/or python.
Industry Best Practice: Proven experience with catastrophe management standards and portfolio level aggregation techniques.
Collaboration: Experience of building and maintaining successful relationships with internal and external contacts.
Project Management: The ability to balance multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
Who we are
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
What’s in it for you?
A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!
Are you ready to play your part?
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.
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