Commercial Lines Underwriting Consultant - Associate Director

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Commercial Lines Underwriting Consultant - Associate Director

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Description

Description

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on client underwriting transformation projects, ensuring alignment between client business objectives and operational changes.
• Lead and support client’s underwriting teams in adopting digital decisioning tools and data-driven underwriting strategies.
• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to improve underwriting and pricing processes, enhance risk selection, and optimize portfolio performance.
• Provide insights to clients on portfolio trading and management to support profitable growth and capital efficiency.
• Identify opportunities for automation, technology adoption, and data integration in underwriting decision-making, including how those changes could be integrated into our product offering.
• Support the clients in navigating the evolving commercial and specialty insurance landscape, leveraging market trends and digital innovations.

• To build a market profile as a representative and advocate of WTW commercial and specialty lines underwriting and pricing consulting services and software tools
• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with client contacts through effective communication and efficient, quality execution of projects
• Actively seek to be involved in a variety of work to ensure a broad skill set (technical, management and client) is maintained and developed
• Interface with colleagues from other practices and regions on assignments that reflect the client’s broader business issues
• Demonstrate commitment to WTW’s professional standards in managing analyses and in communications with clients

• To develop new relevant propositions or to enhance current propositions in commercial and specialty lines underwriting and pricing leveraging WTW’s toolset and broader underwriting and pricing intellectual property and resources
• Lead or contribute to the development of the company’s intellectual capital including plans for taking this to market
• Have a desire to establish and enhance a public reputation in a chosen specialism through the production of articles and presentations

• Meet goals for billable hours and intellectual capital development
• Develop and present proposals to potential clients, demonstrating the economic value of the company’s offerings
• Use contacts within current network to obtain introductions to new contacts; work to develop supporters for company’s products and services

• Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams
• Serve as a manager and/or mentor to more junior associates training them on the specificities of the London Market, including processes, systems and market operations.

• Proven underwriting experience, ideally with exposure to both trading and head-office environments.
• Experience in operational change within underwriting, such as acting as the SME or team representative in an internal transformation program.
• Strong understanding of digital decisioning and its potential impact on commercial and specialty underwriting.
• Exposure to portfolio trading and/or portfolio management is highly desirable.
• The ability to see the big picture”, leveraging the resources of related practices to address the clients' business challenges
• A forward-thinking mindset with a desire to innovate and challenge traditional underwriting practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage underwriting teams, technology partners, and senior leadership.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and drive change effectively.
• Advocate for the value of data enrichment in commercial lines pricing and underwriting
• Experience or interest in selling projects to insurance / financial institutions
• Strong communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and team skills
• Self-starter attitude and ability to work within ambiguity
• Strong analytical and creative skills
• Enjoy training / mentoring junior staff
• Availability to travel on an as needed basis, domestically and internationally

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

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