Jobs at Markel

Lead and scale an £8m Life Science underwriting portfolio, set growth strategy (25%+ YoY), provide technical authority on complex casualty risks, drive product innovation, engage brokers, and coach underwriters. Blend trading decisions with technical underwriting to optimise pricing, wording, coverage, and commercial performance.

Provide advanced actuarial analyses (primarily reserving, plus pricing, reinsurance, corporate reporting), guide junior actuaries, support underwriting teams, validate pricing tools, contribute to business planning and capital model parameterisation, manage stakeholder relationships, and produce external deliverables.

The Senior Catastrophe Analyst will support catastrophe analytics, enhance underwriting decisions, and collaborate on risk management practices across various business lines.

Act as a strategic marketing advisor to commercial stakeholders, translating business goals into marketing objectives and plans. Use insight and performance metrics to prioritise investment, oversee campaign delivery across channels, and connect teams (Sales, Underwriting, Claims) to drive measurable commercial growth. Influence senior partners and ensure marketing activity is targeted, insight-led and delivers clear ROI.

Support underwriting by producing, validating and analysing catastrophe model outputs for portfolio risk assessment. Provide pre-underwriting analytics, reporting, stakeholder presentations, collaborate with vendors and colleagues, and maintain modelling best practice through research and development.

Support catastrophe modelling and exposure management by delivering pre-underwriting analytics, portfolio-level reporting, vendor model use (Verisk preferred), stakeholder presentations, and ad-hoc analysis to inform underwriting, pricing and risk management.