Senior Exposure Manager

Aviva plc; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Are you looking for the next step in your Exposure or Catastrophe Management career? If you’d like to join a business which has invested heavily in this area and prides itself on its development opportunities, available technology and team-sharing insights, then we have an excellent opportunity for you!

In the above role you’ll become a technical subject matter expert across all our commercial lines. You will be accountable for management, assessment and reporting of our exposures across all lines of business, including our exposures to catastrophe events across the world. You’ll also develop our capability to handle new and emerging risks!

A bit about the job:

1. Develop, implement and maintain the exposure management standard methodologies to support pricing and capacity utilisation decisions at the point of underwriting, measure and supervise aggregating property exposures and improve our reporting capabilities and infrastructure (e.g., regular, ad-hoc, event monitoring).
2. Lead and engage with our external suppliers of modelling services.
3. Collaborate and communicate across the business with various stakeholders to ensure our vision is achieved.
4. Support initiatives to improve the quality and completeness of captured data.
5. Actively engage with the business to identify and implement efficiencies to processes and workflows and to improve on the quality of reporting.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

1. Experience of monitoring and controlling catastrophe aggregations across a range of product lines.
2. Ability to manage and prioritise multiple projects and requests.
3. Ability to communicate effectively to a technical and non-technical audience.
4. Catastrophe model platform knowledge is needed – ideally Verisk (as this is what the team currently use) but other platforms can be considered (i.e. RMS).
5. Strong computing skills including Excel and SQL are also key for the role.

What you’ll get for this role:

Starting salary between £65,000 and £100,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications).

Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary (Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s).

Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.

Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products , and other retailer discounts.

Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.

Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.

Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.

Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.

We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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About Us

We help our 19.5 million customers to save for the future and manage the risks of everyday life. To give these customers the best possible products and service we know we must make Aviva the most attractive choice for talented, entrepreneurial people with diverse backgrounds and an evolving range of expertise and insight.

So, we’re passionate about helping our 23,000 people to do the best work of their lives, to enable them to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers.