Personal Lines Product, Pricing and Underwriting Senior Consultant

at  WTW

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an experienced senior pricing practitioner, with specific experience in the UK general insurance personal lines motor market to join WTW as a senior consultant within WTW’s Personal Lines Pricing team. You will join our UK and Ireland general insurance practice within the wider Insurance Consulting and Technology (“ICT”) division, to help us to grow and develop our pricing advisory capability. You will work beside some of the market’s top thought leaders designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions to the pricing and underwriting challenges faced by the UKs leading general insurers and intermediaries.

In your role you will be helping our broad range of UK personal lines pricing and underwriting clients by:

• Delivering best in class pricing and underwriting capability and process reviews
• Designing appropriate pricing analytics and helping to build effective pricing models, tools and processes using a wide range of data science techniques
• Supporting the design and delivery of appropriate underwriting approaches in line with client portfolio management strategy
• Designing and building sophisticated MI and portfolio management capabilities
• Leveraging your market knowledge in developing cutting edge personal lines pricing solutions in collaboration with various teams from across WTW

THE REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrable experience of pricing and/or underwriting, and of interactions with adjacent functions, in a UK general insurance firm – (personal lines) – either with experience across multiple lines of business or a deep expertise in a particular line
• A commercial mindset and “finisher” attitude, focussed on tangible outcomes
• An advocate for the development of analytical approaches and the adoption of new techniques, including data science, machine learning and AI
• Strong interpersonal and team skills
• Excellent project management skills
• The ability to see the “big picture”, engaging and leveraging the resources of adjacent specialisms to address clients’ business challenges
• Occasional domestic travel required

THE ROLE

• To build and develop a market profile as a representative and advocate of WTW pricing consulting services and technology solutions
• Manage workstreams within large projects, overseen by senior colleagues but with responsibility for communication with clients and the day-to-day running of projects
• Work collaboratively across a range of projects and internal management and innovation responsibilities, managing priorities and resources appropriately
• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with client contacts through effective communication and efficient, high quality execution of client work
• Willingly and energetically become involved across a variety of work to ensure that a broad skill set (technical, management and client) is maintained and developed
• Interface with colleagues from other specialisms, practices and regions on assignments that reflect a client’s broader business challenges and needs
• Contribute to the development of the company’s intellectual capital including the plans for taking this to market
• Develop and present proposals to potential clients, demonstrating the commercial value of our offerings
• Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams
• Opportunity to serve as line manager or mentor to more junior associates

In your role you will be helping our broad range of UK personal lines pricing and underwriting clients by:

• Delivering best in class pricing and underwriting capability and process reviews
• Designing appropriate pricing analytics and helping to build effective pricing models, tools and processes using a wide range of data science techniques
• Supporting the design and delivery of appropriate underwriting approaches in line with client portfolio management strategy
• Designing and building sophisticated MI and portfolio management capabilities
• Leveraging your market knowledge in developing cutting edge personal lines pricing solutions in collaboration with various teams from across WT