Director – Personal Lines Pricing, Product, Claims, and Underwriting Actuary for North America

<p><span style="color:#333333;font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif;"=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:110%;" lang="EN-GB">Do you want to be at the forefront of insurance industry innovation and leadership? Do you want to partner with insurers across North America to help deliver cutting-edge capabilities across their organizations? Do you want to work with the original Insurtech, driving performance improvement through our technology? </span></span><a name="_Hlk193132803"><span style="color:#333333;font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif;"=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:110%;" lang="EN-GB">If so, this might be the opportunity for you!</span></span></a></p><p style="line-height:normal;"><span style="color:#333333;font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif;"=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">WTW is looking for an experienced individual with personal lines insurance pricing, product, claims, and underwriting analytics experience in the North American market to join as a Property & Casualty (P&C) Associate Director in our Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) practice. You will have experience in leading analytics/actuarial teams within insurance carriers and will be excited about helping insurers reach their full potential. In this role you will collaborate with our team of pricing, claims, distribution, product management, underwriting and claims experts to sell and deliver consulting and technology solutions to our personal lines insurance clients. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Note: </span><span>This position can be based in a major North American market and is open to remote/virtual work. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.</span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="color:#7F35B2;"><strong>The Organization</strong></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">ICT provides a powerful combination of advisory services for insurance companies, integrated with leading-edge technology solutions and software, all underpinned by unparalleled analytical capability. In our personal lines practice, we work with insurers to help build, enable and embed advanced analytics throughout organizations, in order to transform performance for the business and for customers.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">WTW has ambitious growth plans for our North America personal lines ICT practice. Our goal is to substantially increase our footprint in advising personal lines insurance clients as they seek to increase their analytical capabilities in pricing, claims, and underwriting, as well as across the broader organization. Our combination of market expertise and market-leading analytical software (in particular Radar) uniquely positions us to deliver meaningful impact for our clients. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="color:#7F35B2;"><span lang="EN-GB"><strong>The Responsibilities</strong></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"> </p><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Support and lead the pursuit of potential client engagements, including showcasing WTW’s strengths, establishing client needs, relationship building and crafting scope of work.</span></li><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Discuss and demonstrate applications of WTW’s technology products to clients</span></li><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Lead, build, and participate in teams to deliver client projects</span></li><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Execute work on client projects such as pricing, predictive modeling, best practice reviews and roadmaps, enhancing decision making and portfolio management, and implementation of externalized rating and underwriting.</span></li><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Leverage expertise in strategic aspects of pricing, product, claims, and underwriting analytics, as well as market knowledge, to serve as a subject matter expert</span></li><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Contribute to the development of WTW’s intellectual capital and future proposition development, including go-to-market strategy</span></li><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Mentor, lead, manage and develop more junior members of the team, potentially including both project engagements and direct reports</span></li><li style="color:black;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="background-color:white;">Meet billable hour target and revenue goals, operating as a highly respected and effective consultant</span></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"> </p>

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