From day one, our mission has been to create an independent business with a unique culture – one that is controlled by the people who work for it. Finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people has always been key to our success.

People come to Howden Group Holdings for lots of different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. That’s what sets us apart, and why we nurture and retain the best talent in the market. Whatever your priorities – work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering - you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden Group.

About Howden Group and Rethink:

Howden Group is the world’s largest majority employee-owned insurance group. Rethink is Howden Group’s new digital Howden Group is the world’s largest majority employee-owned insurance group. Rethink is Howden Group’s new digital platform for matching insurance risk to capacity providers. Covid-19 has accelerated an existing trend towards electronic placement of part or all of corporate risks, and brokers and carriers that have timely, accurate and automated placement and underwriting processes will be in the strongest position to maintain margins and grow revenues.

Rethink is a dynamic and fast-paced place to work, with the culture of a results-oriented small business. We pride ourselves on our ambition and ability to engineer quality solutions and exceed clients’ expectations.

Rethink's roadmap has the following objectives:

• Successfully improve upon the automated quoting and placing processes and build out its technology stack, incl. Rethink's UW Algorithm and rules engine
• Deploy a new underwriting platform to allow for more complex acceptance criteria and data augmentation

Portfolio Actuary

We are looking for an Actuary with experience in London Market pricing and portfolio management. With the implementation of our new underwriting platform, we are now embarking on an exciting project that involves implementing a new data platform with analytics capability. Your role will be to help us build out that tooling as well as our entire cross class analytics suite. We are looking for someone who wants to accelerate change in the London Market and wants to apply their excellent analytical skills to develop best in class tools and insights for both our Brokers and our Carriers. You will also be given an opportunity to grow the Analytics team over time in order to support our growing business.

Initially your role will focus on the platform and tooling build as well as articulation and build of use cases for our new analytics platform. Over time you will also be integral to the development of the analytics road map and the actuarial models and tools that form part of it including but not limited to portfolio profitability and rate adequacy.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience in specialty lines pricing or portfolio analysis (preferably in the London market)
• Coding skills in VBA, SQL, R and/or Python
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
• Analytical skills to evaluate business segment profitability
• Ability to interpret trends and make recommendations to key stakeholders to improve business outcomes or optimise processes
• Mental agility and adaptability to changing circumstances
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to a range of stakeholders
• Good time management, able to prioritise work and meet deadlines
• Prior experience in managing a small team.

Desirable extra skills and experience:

• Actuarial qualification
• Experience in predictive analytics

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define

Yes, we offer all the usual rewards and benefits - including great healthcare provision, a wide variety of wellbeing offers, competitive salary, generous pensions and more - but we know you expect all that.

What you might not expect is a job where everyone has a voice, where volunteering in the community is part of the day job, and where everyone is encouraged to play a part towards our sustainability goals. We want people who want to make a difference - not just in the workplace, but in the industry and in the wider community.

Our culture: People First

Our core values dictate how we live and work. We are a group with independence and people at its heart and we are a home for talent with a unique culture: the biggest small company in the world

The focus on being a People First business has always been at the very heart of the Group; Our vision was to create an independent business with a unique culture and one that would survive and thrive as a business controlled by the people working for it. And finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people to join the Group has been and will continue to be key.

Diversity & Inclusion

We consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness and respect, regardless of their age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or family circumstances.

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define.

Yes, we offer all the usual rewards and benefits - including great healthcare provision, a wide variety of wellbeing offers, competitive salary, generous pensions and more - but we know you expect all that.

What you might not expect is a job where everyone has a voice, where volunteering in the community is part of the day job, and where everyone is encouraged to play a part towards our sustainability goals. We want people who want to make a difference - not just in the workplace, but in the industry and in the wider community.

Our Culture: People First

We are proud to be at the global table, but we are most proud of our culture. It has been built on a single and constant set of principles over more than 25 years, and it has helped us become:

• An international group with independence and people at its heart

• A home for talent with a unique culture: the biggest small company in the world

The focus on being a People First business has always been at the very heart of the Group. David’s vision was to create an independent business with a unique culture; one that would survive and thrive as a business controlled by the people working for it. Finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people to join the Group has been and will continue to be key.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Howden Group Holdings we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness and respect, regardless of their age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or family circumstances.

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