Lead Innovation​/Research Actuary - FTC

Job Title: Lead Innovation/Research Actuary

Division: Finance – Group Actuarial & Strategic Finance

Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart

Key Relationships: Underwriters and business managers, Beazley actuaries, Claims managers, Data Management and Ceded Reinsurance teams, Lloyd’s, external actuaries and auditors.

Job Summary: The purpose of the analytics team is to create business value by providing tools and insights that enhance decision making and strategy across the organisation. You will work closely with business stakeholders to translate strategic challenges into clearly defined analytical questions and deliver robust, insight‑led solutions. Your primary focus will be on researching and developing new approaches, techniques and data sources to enhance analytical capability, strengthen existing solutions, and differentiate Beazley’s offering in the market.

• Work collaboratively with business teams and analytics colleagues to develop analysis, tools and insights that inform strategy and improve decision making.
• Research and develop innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities across underwriting, claims, analytics and pricing.
• Partner with external data providers to evaluate and unlock value from new datasets, metrics and rating factors.
• Lead initiatives to embed successful innovations into scalable tools, models and business processes.
• Bring together cross‑functional teams (data science, data engineering and business stakeholders) to deliver high‑quality, scalable solutions that maximise business value.
• Contribute to the development of frameworks and pipelines that ensure analytics outputs are robust, repeatable and integrated into business processes.
• Work with the data organisation to ensure clear, consistent data requirements and avoid duplication, rework or fragmented outputs.
• Maintain strong engagement with stakeholders, supporting understanding and adoption of analytics, and promoting effective use of outputs.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships across key stakeholder groups, maintaining continuous feedback loops.
• Support team delivery by contributing to broader objectives and providing guidance to team members.
• Mentor and develop junior colleagues to build technical capability and strengthen team performance.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to underwriters and management on pricing analytics and related topics.
• Stay informed of industry developments, emerging techniques and regulatory changes.
• Maintain professional development, including actuarial CPD and relevant technical training.

It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere Beazley’s core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers. We also expect Beazley employees to:

• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct.
• Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e‑learning or the learning management system.
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

• Qualified actuary (FIA, FCAS…