Associate Director – Natural Hazards and Climate Risk Management

They have an exciting opportunity for an experienced natural catastrophe modelling specialist to join the Physical Risk team within the Climate Practice at the Company as Associate Director for natural catastrophe and climate risk management consulting projects.

Responsibilities

Engage with the Company’s Risk & Broking community as well as external clients to develop the Natural Catastrophe and Climate Risk Management Business with focus on GB, EMEA and APAC. Responsible for developing leads, opportunities and wins and tracking business development pipeline in their CRM system; Management of catastrophe and climate risk consulting projects (mainly portfolio modelling and single site risk engineering), utilizing catastrophe models of RMS, KatRisk, JBA where necessary. This will involve project management of small teams of analysts to ensure projects are delivered on time, and within budget; Provide subject matter expertise in the running and evaluation of natural catastrophe models to support in the delivery and technical review of actuarial analyses and wider Risk & Analytics consulting projects

Requirements

Strong client management, project management and team leadership skills and in depth understanding of catastrophe and climate risk consulting arena as well as good business development / presentation skills; Experience in using third party catastrophe models such as RMS, AIR, RQE, KatRisk with a strong understanding of probabilistic and catastrophe modelling concepts; Strong analytical, engineering, construction, science and/or mathematical-based background with interest in the area of natural hazard and climate risk (including earthquake, wind and flood)

Nice to have

Knowledge of databases such as SQL or MS Access, VBA, R, any Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software such as Q-GIS, GRASS or Arc GIS etc.