Senior Director – Actuarial Non-Life (Re) Insurance Consulting

Overview

As Senior Director, you lead high-impact pricing and underwriting engagements for commercial insurers, shaping pricing strategies, models, and transformation programs. You collaborate across practices to deliver innovative solutions, leverage data-enrichment ideas, and build pricing capabilities that scale. You act as a trusted advisor, develop market propositions, and mentor junior staff to drive revenue and client value. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• private healthcare
• pension scheme with 10% company match
• hybrid working
• volunteer day
• share scheme

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams delivering client engagements on pricing and underwriting
• Optimize specialty and commercial lines pricing strategies and approaches
• Deliver capability reviews and pricing transformation engagements
• Develop pricing models, tools, and processes; design MI and portfolio management capabilities
• Leverage market knowledge to create cutting-edge solutions in collaboration with cross-regional teams
• Develop and promote new propositions leveraging WTW’s toolset and IP
• Build trusted advisor relationships with client contacts and ensure quality execution
• Mentor and train junior staff; drive thought leadership and IP development
• Meet billable hours targets and develop intellectual capital; present value proposals to clients
• Interface with colleagues from other practices to address broader business issues
• Travel as needed to support client engagements
• Contribute to the company’s public reputation through articles and presentations

Key requirements

• Commercial Lines pricing or portfolio management experience in London Market insurance firms or consultancies
• Experience with exposure modelling, stochastic modelling, first loss curves, and increased limit factors
• Advocate for analytical approaches and data enrichment in pricing/underwriting
• Exposure to machine learning or big data techniques beneficial
• Solid data manipulation skills (SAS, SQL, WPS)
• Experience with Emblem and Radar software preferred
• Track record in delivering revenue-enhancing innovations
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with ability to work in ambiguity
• Ability to see big picture and coordinate across related practices
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally

• strong communication
• interpersonal and team skills
• mentoring and training junior staff
• SAS
• SQL
• WPS

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