Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics

The Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics exists to lead and own the analytics capability across Avoca Risk and its affiliated MGAs. The role is accountable for delivering data-driven portfolio insights, pricing discipline, and performance analytics that support underwriting strategy, capital allocation, and business growth. This position owns a critical enterprise capability spanning actuarial oversight, catastrophe modeling, business intelligence, and portfolio management, serving as both a strategic advisor and hands‑on leader.

The role directly supports organizational growth, underwriting performance, and scalable analytics transformation.

• Ownership of the enterprise analytics function across all platform MGAs.

• Accountability for analytics strategy, governance, and roadmap execution.

• Acting as a subject matter expert and primary decision-maker for portfolio analytics, pricing, and risk insights.

• Partnering with underwriting, finance, technology, and capital stakeholders to align analytics outputs with business needs.

• Direct execution of deep‑div portfolio analysis, actuarial evaluations, and pricing assessments.

• Overseeing catastrophe modeling workflows and exposure analytics using RMS and related tools.

• Designing and maintaining analytics processes, reporting structures, and evaluation frameworks.

• Supporting product and contract reviews to ensure pricing adequacy and technical soundness.

• Creation and maintenance of portfolio reporting, dashboards, and KPI tracking.

• Ensuring accuracy, quality, and integrity of analytics outputs and data.

• Providing regular management reporting and ad‑hoc analytics for decision support.

• Monitoring portfolio performance, identifying risks, and resolving issues proactively.

• Partnering with underwriting, finance, and technology teams to integrate analytics into business workflows.

• Translating complex analytics into clear, decision‑ready insights for senior leadership and stakeholders.

• Supporting alignment across functions and ensuring analytics outputs meet downstream needs.

• Improving collaboration and resolving cross‑functional challenges.

• Leading or supporting growth initiatives, new program launches, and analytics expansion efforts.

• Participating in planning, execution, and delivery of transformation initiatives.

• Building scalable processes and repeatable analytics frameworks.

• Ensuring continuity and alignment during organizational change.

• Identifying opportunities to enhance analytics processes, tools, and methodologies.

• Driving automation and scalability across reporting and modeling capabilities.

• Staying current on actuarial, analytics, and insurance industry best practices.

• Championing adoption of improved, efficient ways of working.

• Contributing thought leadership and expertise to the analytics capability across the enterprise.

• Translating strategy into scalable analytics tools, frameworks, and processes.

• Developing documentation, playbooks, and standards.

• Partnering with functional groups to deliver integrated solutions and support change initiatives.

• Delivering effective, scalable, and strategy‑aligned analytics outcomes.

• Maintaining high standards of quality, accuracy, and reliability.

• Supporting execution during growth, transformation, and change.

• Building strong cross-functional partnerships and demonstrating ownership and sound judgment in decision‑making.

• Significant experience within insurance,…