Head of Portfolio Management, UK and Lloyds

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom AXA Group Full time

Head of Portfolio Management - UK & Lloyd’s

London, United Kingdom

AXA XL UK & Lloyd’sare embarking on an exciting new journey to create a team focused on the efficient and technically smart underwriting of follow business. In the newly established role, as Head of Portfolio Management you will act as the leader for your ‘business stream’ and will be responsible for developing and assessing the core strategic direction and profitability for your portfolio. This role is considered both a technical and customer-facing position, working hand-in-hand with internal clients and meeting with key brokers to support the unit's underwriting and marketing strategies. You will work closely with the Business Unit Chief Underwriting Office and Distribution/Product Teams, and the Divisional Underwriting, Pricing, Innovation, Data and Analytics Teams to achieve financial objectives and be responsible for all underwriting activities.

DISCOVERyour opportunity

What will your essential responsibilities include?

·Provide strategic direction and guidance to ensure effective underwriting practices and adherence to company policies and industry regulations

·Portfolio Underwriting and strategy development: Take on the responsibility for building and overseeing portfolio underwriting of Facilities and Consortia, setting the portfolio strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders, considering market trends, risk factors, and business goals

·Work closely with senior management to align portfolio strategy with the overall business strategy

·Active Portfolio management:Monitor and analyse portfolio performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions on an ongoing basis to ensure the portfolio strategy is delivered

·Develop data tools and analytic reports; working closely with Actuarial, Data and Tech to develop and enhance new tools to allow for ongoing monitoring of portfolio performance, budgets and forecasts.

·Driving Portfolio Underwriting Excellence to support and ensure profitable growth

·Maintaining and modifying underwriting policies, procedures and authority guidelines as required to enable portfolio underwriters to profitably achieve financial goals and maximize AXA XL's opportunities.

·Preserve and enhance profitability through the development of sophisticated underwriting and analytic techniques, pricing discipline, competitive analysis and the development of performance metrics and controls

·Building and maintaining relationships and visibility in the market

The role will report to Harpreet Sanghera, Strategy Director, UK & Lloyds

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

· Experience: Substantial experience focusing on portfolio underwriting management and operations.You will also have experience building relationships with all brokers, and other 3rd party providers. You will also be expected to have a successful track record of driving profitable growth and building new capabilities within a company.

· Inspired Leadership :AXA XL requires a self-starter who will thrive in a team-oriented environment. You will be a non-political player who can, by virtue of your background and experiences, be immediately credible with both internal and external constituents who include brokers and customers.You will be naturally collaborative, and your words, tone and actions will set the bar for others to follow.You will have the ability to influence without authority, motivate others and be highly participative.You will have the reputation for engaging through listening and then driving for efficiency of decision making versus creating bureaucracy.

· Business Building: You must have a good balance of both strategic and operating skills.You will have a track record of executing to plan and working to achieve objectives.Highly attentive to operational and financial details, you will be well organized, a disciplined planner with solid communication skills.You will be financially astute and sophisticated in identifying key financial trends and reworking metrics to get to answers that at first were not obvious.

· Technical Acumen: Sharp rigorous thinker who creates a logical connection for others between the dynamics of market realities, AXA XL’s mission, vision and strategy.You will be a student of the insurance industry and know how the business makes money.You will be market savvy and know what the competition is doing from a product and pricing perspective and quickly grasp challenges and opportunities.Finally, you will have the proven ability to easily articulate the technical and complicated in a manner others readily understand.

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

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