Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics

Unison Risk Advisors

$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in insurance, reinsurance, or underwriting environments.
  • Strong background in actuarial science with ACAS or FCAS credential preferred.
  • Knowledge of ISO-based pricing methodologies and property casualty rating structures.
  • Experience with risk modelling platforms like RMS.
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, Power BI, or similar analytical tools.
  • Ability to convey complex analytics to executive and operational audiences.
  • Strong leadership skills for talent development and team building.

Responsibilities

  • Lead analytics to deliver portfolio reporting and performance analysis.
  • Translate complex data into actionable reports and visualizations for stakeholders.
  • Oversee business intelligence and dashboard development with IT collaboration.
  • Provide regular portfolio KPI management reporting.
  • Direct actuarial activities including pricing assessments and exposure monitoring.
  • Produce ad hoc analytics to support business planning and requests.
  • Manage catastrophe risk modeling and provide exposure reporting for leaders.
  • Review new products for pricing adequacy and technical readiness.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape underwriting strategy across the organization.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Engagement with high-level decision-making processes.
  • Mentorship opportunities to develop a strong analytics team.
  • Access to advanced analytical tools and resources.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

The Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics role will be based in our Manchester, MA office and will lead the analytics function across all platform MGAs and play a critical role in shaping underwriting strategy. This role serves as an independent, data-informed voice to the business, providing portfolio insight, pricing discipline, and performance analysis that support sound underwriting and capital decisions.

This is a senior leadership role spanning portfolio management, actuarial oversight, catastrophe risk analysis (RMS), business intelligence, and product review. The successful candidate will build and mentor a high-performing team, strengthen analytics capabilities across the organization, and partner closely with underwriting, technology, finance, and risk capital stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead the analytics function by delivering portfolio reporting, deep-dive performance analysis, and actionable insight into underwriting trends across the group.
• Translate complex data into clear decision support for senior leadership, underwriting teams, and external stakeholders through well-structured reports, exhibits, and data visualizations.
• Oversee business intelligence and reporting capabilities, including the continued development of our reporting dashboard platform and other automated reporting tools in partnership with the software development team.
• Provide regular management reporting on key portfolio KPIs across the underwriting platform.
• Direct actuarial and exposure management activities, including rate methodology reviews, pricing adequacy assessments, exposure monitoring, and portfolio trend analysis by geography and class of business.
• Produce ad hoc portfolio and carrier analytics, including premium, aggregate, and modelling projections, to support business planning and stakeholder requests.
• Perform actuarial analysis, including loss ratio projections, technical loss picks, projection oversight, and coordination with external actuarial partners where appropriate.
• Oversee catastrophe risk modelling workflows for property lines and provide concise, decision-ready exposure accumulation reporting to business leaders.
• Review new products and contract structures to ensure pricing adequacy, technical soundness, and readiness for market rollout.
• Establish and maintain robust documentation for pricing frameworks, portfolio modelling methodologies, and internal analytics processes.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of analytically strong professionals while fostering a culture of curiosity, rigor, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of technical expertise, commercial judgment, and leadership capability.

Key Qualifications:
• Significant experience within an insurance carrier, reinsurance company, underwriting agency, MGA/MGU, or international insurance or reinsurance broker.
• A strong foundation in actuarial science; progress toward or completion of ACAS, FCAS, or an equivalent analytical credential is preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of ISO-based pricing methodologies and commercial property and casualty rating structures.
• Demonstrated experience working with risk modelling platforms, including RiskModeler (RMS).
• Hands-on experience with advanced analytical and reporting tools such as SQL, Python, Power BI, Sigma, or proprietary insurance systems.
• A proven ability to communicate complex analytical issues clearly and credibly to executive leadership, underwriting teams, and external stakeholders.
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to recruit, mentor, and develop high-potential analytical talent.
• A collaborative, intellectually curious approach with the confidence to provide independent challenge and constructive insight together with the ability to communicate complex themes clearly at all levels of the organization and to key stakeholders.

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