Lead Portfolio and Performance Analytics

Lead, Portfolio And Performance Analytics

Sompo has a unique opportunity for a Lead, Portfolio and Performance Analytics in our newly established CUO Office team for Continental Europe.

Reporting directly to the Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) for Continental Europe, this role offers a unique opportunity to lay the groundwork for a central function that supports portfolio monitoring and sustainable profitability across Sompo's commercial insurance operations in Continental Europe. As a foundational member of the CUO Office, you will play a pivotal role in shaping its capabilities, focusing on building robust analytical frameworks and performance monitoring tools from the ground up.

This hands-on position requires a proactive and detail-oriented individual who thrives on creating structure and driving meaningful change. While business decisions will remain the responsibility of underwriters, you will serve as a critical voice in influencing underwriting strategies and supporting data-driven decision-making processes. Your contributions will be instrumental in optimizing portfolio performance, enhancing risk management practices, and aligning operations with strategic objectives.

As the CUO Office evolves, this role offers the potential to expand its scope and contributes to the development of a team that will further enhance the organization's portfolio analytics capabilities. This is an exciting chance to make a lasting impact on the organization's success and shape the future of portfolio analytics within a dynamic and globally connected environment.

Location:

This position will be based preferably out of our Zurich office, but potential candidates might also sit in our other European office locations in Paris, Milan, Cologne or Munich. We strive for collaboration which is why we offer a work environment where our employees thrive and develop long lasting careers.

Our business, your impact, our opportunity

What you'll be doing:

• Portfolio Performance Analysis:
  Regularly evaluate underwriting performance, identify trends, and analyze profitability, risk quality, and portfolio composition to drive growth and improvement. Prepare quarterly and ad-hoc performance reviews for leadership.
• Underwriting Portfolio Steering:
  Refine risk appetite, recommend strategies for growth or remediation, support underwriting plans, and monitor execution against targets.
• Risk Aggregation & Management:
  Analyze risk accumulation across perils and geographies, monitor exposure limits, and integrate data into reinsurance and capital modeling.
• Catastrophe & Scenario Analysis:
  Conduct catastrophe loss scenarios, assess tail risks, and support stress testing, capital planning, and reinsurance structuring.
• Pricing & Profitability Support:
  Collaborate with pricing teams to analyze rate adequacy, validate assumptions, and recommend underwriting and renewal actions.
• Predictive Analytics:
  Develop predictive models and leverage advanced analytics to support underwriting automation and decision-making tools.
• Reporting & Dashboards:
  Create executive dashboards, automate underwriting metric reporting, and provide data-driven insights for decision-makers.
• Reinsurance Strategy Support:
  Provide exposure and performance data to inform treaty and facultative decisions and improve retention strategies.
• Regulatory & Capital Requirements:
  Support regulatory filings, collaborate on risk assessments, and align portfolio decisions with capital efficiency.
• Innovation & Technology:
  Pilot AI models, integrate new data sources, and drive digitization of portfolio management processes.

What you'll bring:

This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of commercial insurance, strong analytical capabilities, industry expertise, and a passion for driving innovation to optimize portfolio performance and deliver value to internal and external stakeholders.

• Advanced degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in commercial insurance, with a focus on large corporate industry portfolios.
• Strong knowledge of underwriting principles, risk…