CAT Analytics Innovation Specialist in London

Job description

Join us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

CAT Analytics Innovation Specialist – Gallagher Re - London (City)

The Company: Gallagher Re 

• At Gallagher Re we help ensure our clients have the right protection in place so when the unexpected happens it is not catastrophic for their business.
• We think of ourselves as enabling resilience in an uncertain world.
• We look at the world of risk from different perspectives, working with our clients at each stage of the risk identification, risk mitigation and risk transfer process.
• We make sure they have the capacity to react to extreme events and respond in a prepared, disciplined and organized fashion.

The Team: Catastrophe Analytics 

• The Catastrophe Analytics team, embedded into the broking unit, assists clients in analysing the risk to their business from all aspects of natural perils and catastrophes across all classes of products.

The Role: CAT Analytics Innovation Specialist 

• This is a unique role where we are looking for a technical individual with CAT experience to join our reinsurance business in order to create efficiencies, build tools, improve programming and support the business to manage its data intelligence through dashboards and visualization tools
• The successful candidate will thus work as a technical specialist to develop portfolio exposure models, create analysis procedures and applies their knowledge to advance our CAT operations

The skills and experience:

• Contributes to process improvements.
• Managing products, systems and/or projects/processes
• Facing function related problems that are sometimes difficult and moderately complex.
• Coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level professionals.
• Works to achieve operational targets with significant impact on function level results.
• May be responsible for entire projects or processes within sub-function.
• Often leads the work of small project teams; may formally train junior staff.
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products/services or processes.
• Typically resolves complex problems or problems where precedent may not exist. 

The requirements: 

• Experience in London/global insurance markets with knowledge about (re)insurance business.
• Understand reinsurance structures and their application ideally within UK Property market
• Interest to be client facing and leading our analytics relationship with key clients.
• Working knowledge of at least one vendor model (i.e. RMS, AIR).
• Ideally be able to demonstrate innovative applications and solutions for risk assessment.
• Strong Problem-Solving skills and keen attention to detail.
• Excellent IT skills, and most importantly with computer programming skills (e.g. SQL, VBA, R).

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with

TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Extra information

Status

Closed

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London

Type of Contract

Casual / Part Time Jobs

Profession type

Management

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English