Associate Director, Strategy

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About Everest:

Everest is a global leader in risk management, rooted in a rich, 50+ year heritage of enabling businesses to survive and thrive, and economies to function and flourish. We are underwriters of risk, growth, progress and opportunity. We are a global team focused on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation for all stakeholders, who care deeply about our impact on communities and the wider world.

Role Purpose

The Associate Director, Strategy & Transformation will play a critical role in shaping and delivering the strategic agenda for Everest’s Global Wholesale & Specialty platform.

Reporting directly to the Head of Strategy & Transformation, this role will act as a central strategic partner to regional Strategy & Transformation leads, underwriting leadership, and functional stakeholders across the business. The role combines top-tier consulting skillsets (problem structuring, executive storytelling, analytical insight) with hands-on delivery, owning priority initiatives from concept through execution.

This is a highly visible role with regular exposure to global executive leadership, requiring strong judgement, intellectual rigour, and the ability to operate credibly across strategy, underwriting, operations, and finance.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Strategy & Transformation Support

• Support the development and execution of the Global Wholesale & Specialty strategy, ensuring alignment across regions and product lines.

• Partner closely with Regional Strategy & Transformation Heads to:

• Translate global strategic priorities into regional execution plans.

• Provide structured challenge, insight, and problem-solving support.

• Ensure consistency of approach, governance, and reporting.

2. Executive Reporting & Board-Level Materials

• Own the development of executive-level reporting, including:

• Strategy updates, transformation progress, and performance insights. Board, ExCo, and senior leadership presentations.

• Translate complex financial, operational, and underwriting data into clear, decision-ready insights.

• Maintain high standards of narrative clarity, visual quality, and analytical integrity (consultancy-grade output).

3. Priority Initiative Deep Dives

• Lead deep-dive analyses into high-priority strategic and operational topics, such as:

• Portfolio profitability and underwriting performance.

• Operating model effectiveness.

• Investment prioritisation (technology, operations, people).

• Regional or product-specific growth or remediation initiatives.

• Structure problems, assess options, quantify impact, and support leadership decision-making.

• Where required, move beyond analysis to support delivery, tracking milestones, risks, and outcomes.

4. Strategy Delivery & Execution Support

• Work with regional and functional teams to support end-to-end delivery of agreed initiatives.

• Help establish clear objectives, success metrics, and accountability.

• Act as a connective tissue between strategy, underwriting, finance, operations, and technology.

5. Thought Leadership & Ways of Working

• Bring external perspective and best practice (e.g. from consulting, peers, market benchmarks).

• Help evolve the Strategy & Transformation function’s:

• Toolkits, templates, and analytical approaches.

• Governance and cadence.

• Ways of working with the business.

Candidate Profile:

• Top-tier or strong strategy/management consulting and/or

• Strategy, transformation, or commercial roles within insurance, reinsurance, or financial services.

• Experience working with senior executives and producing board-level materials.

• Exposure to complex, multi-region organisations preferred.

• Insurance or specialty lines experience strongly preferred (but not mandatory for exceptional candidates).

Core Skill Set

• Strong consulting toolkit:

• Problem structuring and hypothesis-driven thinking.

• Quantitative and financial analysis.

• Executive storytelling and slide writing.

• Ability to operate across strategy and execution — comfortable getting into detail and driving outcomes.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills; able to influence without authority.

• High attention to detail with a strong sense of commercial judgement.

• Confident, composed, and credible with senior leaders.

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What if I don’t meet every requirement? At Everest we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every element in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout the application or interview process.

Our Culture

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Click here to learn more about our culture. 

• Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Inclusion and Belonging.
• Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.  

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve. 

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