Head of Specialty Exposure Management

Job Description

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations. Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose. Our greatest strength is our talented colleagues, who flourish in a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture steeped in excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.

The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our Client Centric, Risk Centric, and Technology Centric strategies. Built to be resilient, Ascot offers clients leading financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre- and post-claims.

Ascot exists to solve our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline. Ascot is embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and automation across the organization to enhance decision making, efficiency, and quality of outcomes. In this role, you will be expected to work confidently alongside AI-enabled tools, apply sound judgment when interpreting insights, and adapt as technology continues to evolve.

We value curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to embrace change as part of how we work.

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations. Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose. Our greatest strength is our talented colleagues, who flourish in a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture steeped in excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.

The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our Client Centric, Risk Centric, and Technology Centric strategies. Built to be resilient, Ascot offers clients leading financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre- and post-claims.

Ascot exists to solve our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline. Ascot is embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and automation across the organization to enhance decision making, efficiency, and quality of outcomes. In this role, you will be expected to work confidently alongside AI-enabled tools, apply sound judgment when interpreting insights, and adapt as technology continues to evolve.

We value curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to embrace change as part of how we work.

Reporting to the Deputy Group Head of Exposure Management, the Head of Specialty Exposure Management, is responsible for ensuring completeness of the non-natural catastrophe and liability risk portfolio across all applicable Ascot lines of business. This role is responsible for managing the day to day work of a team of Exposure Management analysts, encompassing pre and post-bind modelling, portfolio production and all elements of reporting.

This includes working closely with underwriting teams to optimize return on capacity as well as ensuring our models are sufficiently robust and appropriately validated. This position provides an excellent opportunity for the candidate to lead the non-natural catastrophe modelling function within an insurance operation, to provide direction on analytics and future workflow plans, and work closely with senior members of a growing organization.

• Develop and maintain Ascot’s View of Risk for all non-natural catastrophe classes, ensuring a consistent, robust, and commercially relevant approach across applicable lines of business.
• Lead the Exposure Management team in…