SageSure · 1 day ago

VP, Catastrophe Risk R&D

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

15+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Manage and grow a skilled team of advanced-degree professionals dedicated to SageSure's view of risk.

Evolve and refine SageSure's approach to quantifying risk across all U.S. perils, including assessing catastrophe model vendor changes, evaluating SageSure loss experience relative to modeled estimates, developing exposure data coding and model adjustment methodologies, and managing SageSure's catastrophe modeling vendor relationships.

Serve as a key contributor to SageSure's post-event response activities, including providing expert input and vetted data to enable effective claim response, data science modeling, and loss estimation.

Quantify SageSure's outperformance in catastrophe events relative to industry results and other benchmarks, develop compelling presentation materials to demonstrate SageSure's outperformance and broader thought leadership to reinsurers and other external stakeholders, and engage personally with select reinsurers and carrier partners for deep dives on view of risk topics.

Develop novel insights and capabilities to advance SageSure's differentiated underwriting and management of natural catastrophe risk, through analysis of catastrophe loss experience, sourcing of new data and software tools, and close collaboration with colleagues across multiple other functional areas.

Qualification

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Advanced degree in engineeringAdvanced degree in scienceCatastrophe modelingData analysisPythonSQLProject management

Required

A relevant, advanced degree in engineering or science

At least 15 years of experience in insurance and catastrophe modeling

A track record of successfully leading and growing technical teams responsible for dynamic and varied portfolios of applied research focused on delivering actionable solutions.

Analytically strong and capable of leading complex technical work and formulating sound recommendations to SageSure leadership.

Highly resourceful, with a natural orientation to ensuring project scope clarity, developing pragmatic solutions, and delivering against deadlines

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a particular talent for finding creative and effective ways to distill and explain complex technical information

Preferred

Strong skills with python, SQL, and other tools for analyzing and visualizing large amount of data

Direct experience in making view of risk recommendations, either operationally at an insurer or reinsurer or in an advisory capacity at a reinsurance broker

Hands-on experience developing and presenting custom view of risk perspectives and related thought leadership materials to reinsurers.