CAT Risk Portfolio Manager
About The Position
The CAT Risk Portfolio Manager leads catastrophe modeling activities for the U.S. business in a hands-on, market-facing role, combining direct technical work with strategic support for Underwriting, Actuarial, and CededRe teams. The position serves as Accredited’s catastrophe modeling subject-matter expert in interactions with brokers, clients, partners, and other market stakeholders, translating catastrophe analytics into commercially relevant insights that support risk selection, pricing, transaction structuring, and underwriting decisions. The role partners closely with external technical catastrophe modeling resources that provide modeling capacity. It manages the relationship, work allocation, priorities, quality, and delivery of work assigned to those resources, while ensuring catastrophe modeling analysis, processes, and outputs support underwriting, CededRe, Actuarial, and broader business decision-making.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of relevant catastrophe modeling experience.
- Working knowledge of both RMS and AIR catastrophe modeling software, with expert-level knowledge of at least one.
- Advanced SQL skills and knowledge of RMS/AIR data structure.
- Experience using GIS.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Ability to work effectively across internal Underwriting, Actuarial, and CededRe teams and external technical partners in a fast-paced, market-facing environment.
- Commercial mindset and ability to connect catastrophe analytics to underwriting strategy, risk selection, pricing, and transaction decisions.
- Strong market presence and ability to communicate technical catastrophe modeling concepts clearly and credibly to brokers, clients, partners, underwriters, and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to remain technically hands-on while coordinating and leveraging external catastrophe modeling resources.
- Demonstrated ability to manage an outsourced or third-party technical relationship, including work allocation, prioritization, quality oversight, and performance management.
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate numerical output into underwriting decisions.
- Advanced understanding of reinsurance structures.
- Advanced understanding of natural perils, including hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with delegated authority business is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day relationship with external technical catastrophe modeling resources and serve as the primary point of coordination for technical capacity and support.
- Define, prioritize, assign, coordinate, and oversee catastrophe modeling work for external technical resources based on underwriting and business needs.
- Integrate external technical resources into Accredited’s underwriting workflow and align their work with the priorities and timelines of Underwriting, Actuarial, and CededRe.
- Promote knowledge sharing and integration so external resources operate as an extension of Accredited’s catastrophe modeling capability.
- Monitor external team capacity, deliverables, and performance; identify issues or resource gaps and drive resolution or escalation.
- Review and challenge modeling assumptions, methodologies, analyses, and outputs to ensure quality, timeliness, and completeness.
- Perform hands-on modeling and analysis for priority opportunities, including exposure data preparation, model execution, results review, and recommendations where necessary.
- Prepare catastrophe modeling exposure data and quantify catastrophe risk using commercial modeling software.
- Develop applicable reports and maintain procedure documentation, software, and environmental maintenance.
- Translate complex catastrophe modeling output into commercially relevant recommendations that support underwriting strategy and decisions.
- Deliver required management, AM Best, and board reporting on CAT risk matters.
- Work with Underwriting, Actuarial, and CededRe to evaluate opportunities, structure transactions, and support risk selection and pricing decisions through timely catastrophe analytics and insight.
- Interact with Senior Management, Underwriting, Claims, Actuarial, Finance, and Risk Management to ensure catastrophe models appropriately reflect the business.
- Develop market relationships and represent Accredited’s catastrophe modeling capabilities with brokers, clients, partners, and other external stakeholders.
- Participate in broker, client, partner, and market meetings as the catastrophe modeling subject-matter expert, articulating catastrophe exposure, model results, assumptions, uncertainty, and key risk considerations.
- Perform other duties as required by the business.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
