Overview

As a Commercial Lines Pricing Associate Director within the UK P&C Consulting Practice you will work beside some of the market's top thought leaders designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions to pricing and underwriting challenges faced by the world's leading commercial insurers. In your role you will be helping our clients by:

• Optimising their Commercial Lines pricing strategies and approaches
• Delivering pricing and underwriting capability reviews and pricing transformation engagements
• Helping to build effective Commercial Lines pricing models, tools and processes
• Designing sophisticated MI and portfolio management capabilities
• Leveraging your market knowledge in developing cutting edge solutions for commercial lines pricing in collaboration with various teams from across Willis Towers Watson
• Bringing innovative data enrichment ideas to harness pricing insights and providing support with their implementation.

Responsibilities

• To build a market profile as a representative and advocate of Willis Towers Watson commercial lines pricing consulting services and software tools
• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with client contacts through effective communication and efficient, quality execution of projects
• Actively seek to be involved in a variety of work to ensure a broad skill set (technical, management and client) is maintained and developed
• Interface with colleagues from other practices and regions on assignments that reflect the client's broader business issues
• Demonstrate commitment to Willis Towers Watson professional standards in managing analyses and in communications with clients

Thought leadership

• To develop new relevant propositions or to enhance current propositions in commercial lines pricing leveraging Willis Towers Watson's toolset and broader pricing intellectual property and resources
• Lead or contribute to the development of the company's intellectual capital including plans for taking this to market
• Have a desire to establish and enhance a public reputation in a chosen specialism through the production of articles and presentations

Financial and business development

• Meet goals for billable hours and intellectual capital development
• Develop and present proposals to potential clients, demonstrating the economic value of the company's offerings
• Use contacts within current network to obtain introductions to new contacts; work to develop supporters for company's products and services

People

• Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams
• Serve as a manager or mentor to more junior associates
• Relevant experience in a Commercial Lines pricing role in an insurance firm or consultancy
• Ability to work effectively with people from a broad range of professional backgrounds
• An advocate for the development of analytical approaches and the adoption of new techniques
• Advocate for the value of data enrichment in commercial lines pricing and underwriting
• Exposure to machine learning or big data techniques beneficial
• Experience of Radar software is preferred
• Experience or interest in selling projects to insurance / financial institutions
• A track record in innovation and creativity delivering realised revenue enhancements
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and drive change effectively.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills
• Self-starter attitude and ability to work within ambiguity
• Strong analytical and creative skills
• Enjoy training / mentoring junior staff
• The ability to see the "big picture", leveraging the resources of related practices to address the clients' business challenges
• Availability to travel on an as needed basis, domestically and internationally