Title: Associate Director, Strategy Company: Everest Advisors (Uk), Ltd. Job Category: Underwriting About Everest Everest is a global leader in risk management, rooted in a rich, 50+ year heritage of enabling businesses to survive and thrive, and economies to function and flourish. We are underwriters of risk, growth, progress and opportunity. We are a global team focused on disciplined capital allocation and long‑term value creation for all stakeholders, who care deeply about our impact on communities and the wider world. Role Purpose The Associate Director, Strategy & Transformation will play a critical role in shaping and delivering the strategic agenda for Everest’s Global Wholesale & Specialty platform. Reporting directly to the Head of Strategy & Transformation, this role will act as a central strategic partner to regional Strategy & Transformation leads, underwriting leadership, and functional stakeholders across the business. The role combines top‑tier consulting skillsets (problem structuring, executive storytelling, analytical insight) with hands‑on delivery, owning priority initiatives from concept through execution. This is a highly visible role with regular exposure to global executive leadership, requiring strong judgement, intellectual rigour, and the ability to operate credibly across strategy, underwriting, operations, and finance. Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Transformation Support

Support the development and execution of the Global Wholesale & Specialty strategy, ensuring alignment across regions and product lines. Partner closely with Regional Strategy & Transformation Heads to translate global strategic priorities into regional execution plans, provide structured challenge, insight, and problem‑solving support, and ensure consistency of approach, governance, and reporting.

Executive Reporting & Board‑Level Materials

Own the development of executive‑level reporting, including strategy updates, transformation progress, and performance insights; Board, ExCo, and senior leadership presentations. Translate complex financial, operational, and underwriting data into clear, decision‑ready insights. Maintain high standards of narrative clarity, visual quality, and analytical integrity (consultancy‑grade output).

Priority Initiative Deep Dives

Lead deep‑drive analyses into high‑priority strategic and operational topics such as portfolio profitability and underwriting performance, operating model effectiveness, investment prioritisation, and regional or product‑specific growth or remediation initiatives. Structure problems, assess options, quantify impact, support leadership decision‑making, and where required, move beyond analysis to support delivery, tracking milestones, risks, and outcomes.

Strategy Delivery & Execution Support

Work with regional and functional teams to support end‑to‑end delivery of agreed initiatives. Help establish clear objectives and success metrics. Act as a connective tissue between strategy, underwriting, finance, operations, and technology.

Thought Leadership & Ways of Working

Bring external perspective and best practice from consulting, peers and market benchmarks. Help evolve the Strategy & Transformation function’s toolkits, templates, analytical approaches, governance, cadence and ways of working with the business.

Candidate Profile

Top‑tier or strong strategy/management consulting and/or strategy, transformation or commercial roles within insurance, reinsurance, or financial services. Experience working with senior executives and producing board‑level materials. Exposure to complex, multi‑region organisations preferred. Insurance or specialty lines experience strongly preferred (but not mandatory for exceptional candidates).

Core Skill Set

Strong consulting toolkit: problem structuring, hypothesis‑driven thinking, quantitative and financial analysis, executive storytelling and slide writing. Ability to operate across strategy and execution, comfortable getting into detail and driving outcomes. Excellent stakeholder management skills; able to influence without authority. High attention to detail with a strong sense of commercial judgement. Confident, composed, and credible with senior leaders.

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