Global Proactive Cyber Services Lead

Job Category:
Underwriting

Job Description: Over the past three years Canopius has built a market‑leading, differentiated Proactive Cyber Services function, and client demand has grown rapidly. We’re now looking for an experienced cyber professional either from a similar role within an insurer or from a cyber security consultancy / vendor environment, who’s ready to take ownership of the global strategy and scale our offering to the next level.

This role sits within our Insights & Analytics function, alongside our cyber analytics and incident management capabilities. We believe insurers are uniquely positioned to help clients reduce cyber risk, as part of the insurance lifecycle we get access to a unique data set: application and underwriting data, real-world incident learnings (including attacker techniques), and financial impact. We combine this with paid and open-source threat intelligence and outside‑in scanning to deliver services that are practical, measurable, and genuinely valued by CISOs and security teams.

You’ll lead and evolve our proactive services roadmap, building scalable products and client programmes while protecting what makes our proposition differentiated. You’ll also play a key role in partnering with underwriting: translating threat and exposure insights into stronger risk selection, guidelines, and improved loss performance.

• Own the global vision, roadmap and operating model for Proactive Cyber Services – balancing scalable delivery with high‑impact differentiated offerings.
• Lead, develop and mentor a high‑performing team; set clear priorities, ways of working, and performance measures.
• Collaborate as a key stakeholder across the cyber business, aligning priorities with Insights & Analytics, Incident Management/Response, Underwriting and Claims.
• Build a comprehensive threat and risk intelligence capability using open-source and premium intelligence, outside‑in scanning, incident response insights, claims learnings, and internal risk data.
• Serve as our internal expert & lead on cyber risk drivers, areas of potential compromise across technology, human behaviour, and procedural controls.
• Determine which exposures present the highest priority for insureds by evaluating threat actor behaviours, recurring incident patterns, vulnerability data and indicators across their full exposure footprint.
• Leverage practical learnings from threat activity and incident outcomes to shape proactive solutions that strengthen clients’ security posture, including exposure-focused programmes, advisory materials, assessment activities and preparedness support.
• Design and deliver client‑facing services such as tabletop exercises, security awareness sessions, threat/risk reporting and targeted remediation guidance.
• Create repeatable client services that quantify cyber security posture and drive remediation of material exposure.
• Advise senior client stakeholders (including CISOs) on best practice, emerging threats, and pragmatic risk reduction strategies.
• Partner with Underwriting and insights & Analytics leadership to embed risk and threat insights into underwriting guidelines, portfolio strategy and loss prevention initiatives.
• Support development of data‑informed underwriting tooling and approaches, including collaboration on pricing model inputs and risk signals.
• Provide technical expertise to enhance underwriting risk assessments and support complex referrals.
• Partner with data engineering and analytics to product ionise exposure/incident datasets for analytics, services, underwriting and workflow automation.
• Define and oversee outcome‑based metrics that demonstrate insured cyber risk.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity vendors and partners to extend our service suite, evaluate tooling, and ensure high‑quality delivery for insureds.
• Select and manage outside‑in scanning and threat intelligence solutions, ensuring they support measurable outcomes and a strong client experience.
• Represent the function publicly; publish analysis on evolving threats and pragmatic risk‑reduction approaches tailored to our insureds.
• Support education across the business on emerging risks, claims learnings and exposure…