Schemes & MGA Senior Portfolio Analyst

Job Type:Permanent Build a brilliant future with Hiscox About Hiscox Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognised as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technology companies.

Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.

The role

We have a market leading reputation for producing bespoke solutions for niche customer groups managed by our broker partners. Within the wider Schemes team, we deliver Schemes (Delegated Authorities and MGA) solutions across the UK retail business.

You’ll work across the existing portfolio of Schemes (and Delegated Authorities) business as well as analysing the impact of new Schemes opportunities.  You’ll work with the wider Schemes Team across underwriting, operations and sales delivering analytics and business insights to influence business decisions and drive the performance objectives of the Schemes business in support of our Active Performance and Portfolio Management ambitions.

You will ensure alignment with the wider Hiscox UK business including, Pricing and Portfolio Management, the Insurance Analytics team and Underwriting & Distribution management, ensuring alignment with wider Hiscox UK strategy.

You will report directly to the Schemes and MGA –Portfolio Analyst Team Lead and you will have responsibility for influencing the design and delivering our performance and portfolio management strategy in support of driving improvement and profitable growth to schemes. You will play an integral part in realising our ambitions of growing the portfolio in line with our strategic plans.

What you’ll be doing :

Providing an independent review and recommendation for underwriting on large existing Schemes and MGA’sDeploying analytical skills to assess new schemes opportunities, working in close collaboration with our Delivery Underwriters in support of our profitable growth ambitions and our service commitments

Complete all other relevant ad hoc and deep dive data analysis including underwriting referral analysis and make recommendations for improvements

In conjunction with the underwriting and Schemes Leadership team, and working closely with the analytics function, you will be designing and developing the data standards relevant for your sector

You will be using data visualisation tools to design and build a reporting suite to enable the Schemes Sector to actively monitor the performance and portfolio trends and produce on an ongoing basis our monthly and quarterly suite of reporting

You will be using your analytical skills to spot trends in the Schemes performance and provide insight and recommendations for changes to strategy in support of delivering on our strategic goals and profitable growth targets

Support innovation and continuous improvement and look for opportunities to implement data, reporting and process improvements across Schemes Sector Conduct data analysis to spot trends and recommend the necessary corrective action and opportunities for profitable growth within the existing portfolios in your sector

Applying knowledge of the regulatory environment to all portfolio decisions and ensuring recommendations result in our customers being treated fairly and consistently in line with Hiscox values

You will work closely with a wide range of interested stakeholders to deliver a consistent and accurate suite of reports across a wide range of business performance metrics including deal conversion and decline data, underwriting loss and combined ratio’s, portfolio mix, claims frequency, large loss analysis etc.

Our must-haves:

Experience in a similar analytical role, using data and insights to identify trends, evaluate performance and make recommendations that drive business growth and improvement

Experience with in insurance, ideally within Schemes, MGA, Pricing, Portfolio Management or an analytical function supporting underwriting decisions

Experience…