Director - Retrocession

About the Role

The Director - Retrocession is a senior technical role responsible for supporting the performance, protection and strategic development of the company's reinsurance portfolio.

The role covers retrocession, underwriting and portfolio analytics, exposure management, capital management, business planning, product development and pricing. Working closely with Underwriting, Risk, Finance, Actuarial and Strategy, the Director provides the analysis and insight required to support sound underwriting decisions and maintain appropriate portfolio protection.

The role requires a strong actuarial and analytical background together with extensive insurance and reinsurance experience, particularly across Treaty and Facultative Non-Life business.

• Manage and monitor the company's retrocession arrangements across Life & Medical and Non-Life portfolios.
• Prepare renewal analysis, retrocession packs and presentations for Management, Board Technical Committees and retrocessionaires.
• Work with brokers, actuaries, catastrophe modellers and underwriting teams on pricing, programme structure and placement.
• Review the effectiveness of reinsurance and retrocession protection and recommend improvements where required.

• Monitor underwriting and portfolio performance against the approved Business Plan across lines of business, regions and business units.
• Develop clear management reports covering premium, claims, loss ratios, costs, profitability and portfolio trends.
• Analyse portfolio composition, concentration, profitability and diversification to identify risks and opportunities.
• Provide analytical insight and recommendations to support underwriting and portfolio management decisions.

• Monitor insurance, accumulation, catastrophe, underwriting, pricing and retrocession risks in line with the company's Risk Management Framework.
• Work with Underwriting and Risk to monitor catastrophe and Facultative exposures, aggregates and portfolio limits.
• Support capital management and identify opportunities to improve capital efficiency through portfolio and reinsurance optimisation.
• Assist with scenario analysis, stress testing and monitoring of major portfolio exposures.

• Support the development of new insurance and reinsurance products from initial concept through to launch.
• Identify market opportunities through analysis of competitors, regulation and industry developments.
• Work with Underwriting, Actuarial, Claims, Risk and Strategy on product design, pricing and financial assumptions.
• Review appropriate Treaty, Facultative and retrocession protection for new and existing products.

• Coordinate underwriting input into the annual Business Plan with Strategy, Finance and Actuarial teams.
• Monitor key assumptions including premium, claims, acquisition costs and loss ratios against actual performance.
• Identify significant variances and provide management with clear analysis and recommendations.
• Support forecasting and scenario analysis to assist strategic decision-making.

• Monitor the financial strength and credit ratings of reinsurers, retrocessionaires and other key counter parties.
• Review counter party concentration and credit exposure.
• Ensure credit quality is considered within reinsurance strategy, placement and programme design.

• Support the development of effective underwriting frameworks, authorities, controls and operating models.
• Improve consistency of underwriting processes, data quality, reporting and performance management.
• Work with underwriting leadership to develop appropriate KPIs and portfolio controls.
• Support strategic underwriting and operational improvement initiatives.

• Maintain strong relationships with brokers, reinsurers, retrocessionaires, advisers and other market partners.
• Provide insight into international reinsurance markets, pricing, capacity and emerging trends.
• Represent the company in technical meetings, renewal discussions and relevant market engagements.

• Lead, motivate and develop team members while managing multiple projects and priorities.
• Promote effective cooperation between Underwriting, Actuarial, Risk, Finance and Strategy.
• Support internal training, development and knowledge-sharing…