Exposure Management Manager

Join us as an Exposure Management Manager to take your career to the next level with a global market leader.

How you will create an impact

This is a leadership position within the Talbot Catastrophe Modelling & Exposure Management team, responsible for the day-to-day operations of Talbot’s Exposure Management function. The role is responsible for all aspects of EM at Talbot including PV & Terrorism, Cyber, Fin Lines, and Marine. The role offers a unique opportunity to handle exposure management for direct underwriting business underwritten by Talbot S1183, as well as AIG’s special purpose alternative capital syndicates S2019 and S2487.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

Lead the management and development of Talbot and AIG’s views of

catastrophe risk across relevant classes of business. This will include business underwritten across all of Talbot’s managed syndicates as well as business managed by Talbot but underwritten on AIG company paper.

Support the design and development of standardized reporting frameworks for relevant lines in collaboration with Talbot and AIG Cat & EM leadership. Build a framework that is robust and consistent across the different lines of business whilst allowing for the inherent risk differences within each LOB.

Direct management of one analyst as well as mentoring and leadership of analysts across the rest of the team.

Oversee implementation of aggregation management and risk appetite methodologies, to ensure that the companies aggregation risk is accurate and well understood.

Support the business planning process of non-property lines across Talbot syndicates.

Collaborate with Underwriters, Actuaries, Capital Modellers and others across the company and group, in implementing Exposure Management in Underwriting, Pricing, and the Internal Model.

Develop and instil sustainable, high quality best practices, ensuring documentation is maintained.

Establish strong relationships with AIG Cat Leadership, and well with local and regional Underwriters and Underwriting Leadership.

Additional ad-hoc support such as catastrophe event response, reinsurance purchasing, regulatory reporting, as needed.

What you’ll need to succeed

Significant catastrophe and exposure management experience, preferably with some time spent on non-Nat Cat accumulation management methodologies.

Experience dealing with lines of business where models and modelling methodologies are less mature than Nat Cat. Comfort with the inherent uncertainty and lower data quality of these lines.

Effective communicator/influencer with strong written and oral communication skills

Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritise

Ability to translate and communicate business priorities to a wide range of audiences.

Strong insurance market knowledge, particularly for Property and Specialty Lines of Business

Experienced user of internal and external vendor models, in a range of applications including for portfolio and pricing, as well as internal deterministic scenario-based analyses

Experience in working for successful, large multinational insurance organisations with matrix management structures

Technical programming proficiency including but not limited to the SQL and R languages

Demonstrated commercially focused, analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.