Senior CAT Analyst - Property Research - Earthquake Specialist in London

At Gallagher Re, we bring clarity to complexity by helping clients around the world make confident, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. Here, you’ll be part of a team that leverages world-class analytics and deep reinsurance expertise to deliver strategic advisory services and transactional excellence.

The Gallagher Re Property Research team supports our global reinsurance operation by developing our in-house view of risk in the form of natural catastrophe peril advisory, catastrophe model evaluation and our network of academic research partnerships. Our team collaborates with brokers, clients, and industry partners to enhance property risk quantification, develop innovative risk management solutions and evaluate third party catastrophe models.

The individual we are seeking would be a senior member of the team, leading catastrophe modelling evaluation, development and risk assessment projects worldwide.

How you'll make an impact:

• Act as a senior risk advisor to our clients, working closely with broking teams to interpret and present earthquake model results across multiple regions.
• Lead catastrophe model research and evaluation projects, working with the team to provide best-in-class vendor model validation reports supported by detailed evidence.
• Lead catastrophe model development projects, including but not limited to probabilistic models, hazard layers, parametric solutions.
• Develop novel ideas to deliver bespoke risk solutions to clients.
• Stay abreast of and contribute towards the latest research on relevant topics from the scientific literature.
• Project manage multiple multi-week to multi-year research and model development projects, frequently to tight deadlines.
• Effectively communicate with team members, business-units, brokers and clients.
• Collaborate with model vendor experts to understand their new models or updates, and compare/contrast choices made between model vendors.
• Liaise with offices and teams world-wide and participate in business travel as required.
• Coordinate with academic partners to ensure academic partnerships meet both the technical and commercial requirements of Gallagher Re.
• Represent at industry and academic conferences.
• Provide guidance to junior specialists of the team to undertake model development, model evaluation and adjustment projects.

About You:

• PhD in earthquake risk, earthquake engineering, seismology or similar.
• Advanced knowledge of programming in R, Python, SQL or equivalent including experience in visualization and analysis of spatial datasets.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Team player with strong analytical skills and keen attention to detail.
• An understanding of (re)insurance and catastrophe risk management.
• An understanding of vendor catastrophe models and the differences between them.
• Some years of experience in the insurance/reinsurance industry, preferably in cat model development or evaluation.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Compensation and benefits:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x.
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.
• Other benefits include: Three fully paid volunteering days per year, Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount, Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan, Critical illness cover, Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally, Season ticket loan, Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase, Emergency back-up family care.

We value inclusion and diversity:

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities.