About RenaissanceRe:
For over three decades, RenaissanceRe has helped its clients manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world. We’re experts in Property, Casualty, Specialty, and Credit reinsurance, consistently recognized for the innovative way we combine data, experience and technology to understand and manage large and complex risks across the world. We are also a business with a real social purpose - we help protect communities around the globe and enable prosperity for all. Our purpose drives us forward every day as we seek solutions to some of the world's most complicated challenges.
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About the Position:
The AVP, Risk Selection & Analytics Solutions supports change initiatives in Exposure Analytics within the Risk Selection & Analytics Domain. Working closely with Domain Leadership and Business Transformation team, they deliver technical solutions and enable measurable change in line with the Operational Plan to achieve strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Management
- Build trusted relationship to gain additional insight.
- Collaborates on projects to assess processes and systems improvement needs.
- Lead communications and change management for their projects.
Domain Knowledge & Strategic Input
- Utilise business and systems knowledge within an area of the domain, to facilitate effective stakeholder support for problem analysis and solution delivery
- May provide business specialist expertise in an area of the domain or large programs of work
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the strategic goals and operational challenges
- Act as Business Design Lead / Product Owner to guide business design decisions.
- Defines goals for the initiative/area and prioritises the backlog.
People Leadership
- Sets high standards and motivates others to achieve results without direct authority.
- Shares expertise to build organizational capabilities.
- Leverages team strengths effectively.
Organisational Skills
- Owns project scoping, definition and mobilisation.
- Coordinates project planning, tracking and risk management.
- May manage vendor relationships to ensure success.
- Facilitating discovery workshops, planning sessions, roadmap development.
- Coordinate teams, including external consultants, to achieve goals.
Quantitative & Analytical
- Applies analytical thinking and intellectual curiosity to explore new ideas and approaches.
- Delivers data-driven solutions to support underwriting, risk management, modelling, reporting, and process automation.
- Develops and supports risk models, automated processes, and reporting solutions.
- Writes code and extracts data to support automation and insight generation.
- Investigates and analyses internal and external data to inform risk modelling and underwriting decisions.
Analysis, Business Solution Design & Delivery
- Conducts analysis to support key decisions and clearly articulates the problem space for their area of the domain.
- Shapes solution with Domain Leadership support.
- Lead analysis and issue root cause diagnosis.
- Balances functional and non-functional requirements.
- Ensures common understanding of problem space and proposed solution.
Innovation
- Identifies valuable innovations by staying abreast of industry trends.
- Contributes to the improvement of business change practices.
- Individual contributor but may lead a team.
Problem Solving
- Shows initiative in addressing problems and making decisions.
- Understanding of tools and techniques for identifying and resolving organizational, operational, or process issues.
- Applies problem-solving skills to different situations with guidance.
Process Improvement
- Familiar with strategic change and basic business transformation technical skills. Experience with operational improvement tools.
- Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative analysis and financial modelling.
Candidate Qualifications:
- Degree in relevant discipline or at least 7+ years relevant work experience
- Insurance / reinsurance experience essential
- Experience in designing and implementing solutions that enhance exposure analytics capabilities and deliver actionable exposure insights.
- Experience with catastrophe modeling platforms such as AIR, Oasis, or RMS.
- Experience developing solutions that integrate with vendor model APIs is a plus.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills with proficiency in numerical computing.
- Quick learner with a problem-solving mindset and adaptability to new technologies and modelling approaches.
- Proficient in Excel and SQL. Experience with Python (Pandas) advantageous.
- Experience in data management, BI, and report development is a plus.
- Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented collaborative environment is essential.
- Strong communication, collaboration, coaching, problem solving and relationship building skills.
- Ability to manage change and to negotiate prioritisation of issues and projects.
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to understand requirements, to use creative thinking to resolve problems and refine processes.
- Attention to detail, with exceptional oral and written communication skills.
- Comfortable speaking in front of groups and facilitating requirements and training workshops.
- Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties.
Leadership Competencies & Values:
Impact: Sets objectives, delivers results, and implements policies/operational targets with direct impact on the department or individual work outcomes
Execution: Proactively identifies resources, actions and timelines needed to achieve objectives, effectively balancing tactical pressures with broader implications and downstream impact
Communication: Shares relevant information in a timely manner with stakeholders and conveys points of view in a way that influences opinions and demonstrates flexibility
Client and solutions focus: Identifies process and service opportunities that enhance the external and internal client experience and outcomes
Innovation: Stretches self and others to think differently and innovatively, drawing upon multiple sources for ideas and inspiration
Learning mindset: Seeks out and explores new assignments, exposure, or challenges in order to enhance technical skills
Values: Exemplifies and champions RenaissanceRe’s core values of Focus, Respect, Integrity, Precision, Passion
We believe that meeting these requirements will position you for success in the role. However, if you fulfill most – but not all – of the expectations, we still encourage you to apply, as we are eager to explore your potential and believe in the ability to grow and learn.
At RenaissanceRe, we believe in creating a workplace culture that fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our business. We have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination and take proactive steps to make employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success. It is RenRe’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/ civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.
