Longevity Actuary

**Company**
Munich Re
**Location**
London, United Kingdom

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**About UK Life Branch**:
With the offices in London, it forms the Life 1 division of Munich Re. The UK life market is one of the, if not the, most competitive life markets in the world. We understand that Life insurers work in a dynamic market where medical progress, demographic trends and changing lifestyles are constantly giving rise to new risk landscapes. This demanding situation is made even more challenging by changing laws and regulations and ever tougher competition. So we need a smart strategy and structure in order to succeed.

At UK & Ireland Life we have three pillars to our business strategy, protection, longevity and reinsurance structuring. All three are key to the success of our business so it’s important to look at the big picture.
In terms of clients, we trust them as experts of their business and provide them with the financial strength of the world’s largest reinsurer, global expertise and sharp pricing so that they are both competitive and profitable.

**About the role**:_ _

The Longevity Actuary has a key role in helping the Longevity team in securing profitable new business by acting as a pricing and process expert. They will help ensure our approach to pricing longevity risk is market appropriate, and that our product offerings and processes are optimised.

The Longevity Actuary will support the wider team across the range of actuarial work we complete, including checking new business quotes, proposition and basis work and further developing our global centre of competence role. They will also support with system development to ensure we continue to drive efficiencies across our work.

This is a great opportunity for a technically strong and ambitious individual to join a highly successful, friendly and growing team in an exciting, challenging and rewarding environment.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support new business tenders both for UK and in non-UK markets
- Develop an in-depth understanding of our pricing approach and models used, such that they can support the wider team with their technical and modelling capabilities
- Assess new data (internal and external) and modelling approaches such that the Longevity team’s processes remain competitive, market appropriate and efficient across both new business and in-force activities
- Support longevity basis development both for the UK and non-UK markets
- Support UK proposition development
- Support and oversee regular in-force actuarial tasks, working with the Head of In-Force to manage our portfolio
- Supporting overall longevity strategy
- Support Head of Longevity with appropriate ad-hoc tasks as required
- Providing guidance / support / knowledge sharing to longevity team members

**General Duties and Tasks**:

- The Longevity Actuary is primarily responsible for supporting the Senior Longevity Actuary and Head of Longevity in delivering agreed strategy, including the development of profitable new business.

**Deal origination & the pricing process (40%)**
- Supporting the Senior Longevity Actuary in assessment of deal attractiveness
- Leading or supporting new business quotes as part of quote teams
- Supporting other quote teams in terms of best practice
- Supporting executions on the actuarial side - contractual aspects, model reviews, etc
- Working alongside the Senior Longevity Actuary to further enhance our relationship with clients
- Review and challenge pricing assumptions in tenders and wider basis related discussions
- Proactively develop and train up others on the pricing process and modelling approaches used

**Basis and proposition development (30%)**
- Support the Senior Longevity Proposition and Basis Actuary, and International Longevity Actuary, in deriving international bases for specified markets
- Support enhancements to the UK basis, proposition and market offering
- Ensure that Munich Re’s approach to pricing longevity business is appropriate, suggesting and embedding enhancements to basis processes as necessary

**General Longevity team (20%)**
- Work in conjunction with colleagues to coordinate & facilitate various internal processes
- Use desktop and other research to track developments in the market
- Proactively develop talent through knowledge sharing on market developments and practices
- Promote Longevity within the UK office and aid the Head of Longevity in the development of the UK’s Global Centre Of Competence role including working with international clients and colleagues
- Provide guidance and support for inforce monitoring activity within the Longevity team
- Work with the Head of In-Force on in force related projects as required to manage our existing portfolio
- Work with colleagues to manage material operational risk failures, data/accounting issues, etc.
- Support wider branch as required. Plus any additional duties and responsibili