Senior Portfolio Manager

Overview

In this role, you will lead the Portfolio Management business partnering team to embed portfolio discipline across the London Market. You will align underwriting strategy with portfolio analytics, drive pricing model calibration, and deliver actionable insights to improve profitability. You’ll collaborate with the International Portfolio Analytics team to deploy advanced analytics, data management, and pricing execution at scale. This is an opportunity to shape underwriting decisions and transform pricing capability within a global specialist insurer.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• annual bonus
• up to 16% pension
• private medical and dental cover
• life assurance
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio performance insights and reporting
• Drive the pricing and portfolio management agenda for the London division, aligning with underwriting strategy
• Act as trusted advisor to Managing Directors and Underwriters, supporting portfolio decisions
• Own and evolve pricing capability with calibration and refinement of pricing models
• Monitor granular portfolio performance by class/segment across open market and delegated business
• Support Quarterly Business Reviews and the quarterly planning process with clear plans and actions
• Develop insight-led tools, analytics, dashboards, and pricing tools to improve underwriting decisions
• Collaborate with actuarial, underwriting, claims, data/IT, and delegated teams to deliver coordinated solutions

Key requirements

• Strong London Market experience across specialty lines with understanding of underwriting dynamics
• Advanced pricing and actuarial expertise with hands-on model development and calibration
• Technical and data capability including large dataset analysis
• Proficiency in SQL for data extraction; Excel for data manipulation; Python for modelling and automation (advantageous)
• Stakeholder engagement with underwriters and senior leaders to drive portfolio and pricing decisions
• Strong communication skills to convey complex concepts to non-technical audiences
• Commercial mindset balancing technical rigor with practical outcomes
• Delivery track record under tight timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI or similar)

• Stakeholder engagement
• Strategic thinking
• Clear communication
• Pricing model development and calibration
• Actuarial judgement in translating model outputs
• SQL

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