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Introduction
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. Together, we transform advanced insights and market intelligence into strategies that protect businesses, drive performance, and shape the future of reinsurance. We’re a community of decision makers, future shapers, and trusted experts working side by side to deliver meaningful impact through innovative thinking and practical solutions. At Gallagher Re, your curiosity is welcomed, your growth is championed, and your work truly matters. This is a place where you'll have the freedom to explore new ideas, take ownership of your career, and collaborate with people who are as driven and inquisitive as you are.
Overview
Gallagher Re – Senior CAT Analyst – Property Research Team – MULTI PERILS
The Company: Gallagher Re
At Gallagher Re we help ensure our clients have the right protection in place so when the unexpected happens it is not catastrophic for their business. We think of ourselves as enabling resilience in an uncertain world. We look at the world of risk from different perspectives, working with our clients at each stage of the risk identification, risk mitigation and risk transfer process. We make sure they have the capacity to react to extreme events and respond in a prepared, disciplined and organized fashion.
The team: Property Research
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.
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How You'll Make An Impact
- Act as a senior risk advisor to our clients, working closely with broking teams to interpret and present model results across multiple catastrophe perils and 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, including climate change
- 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
- Present at industry and academic conferences
- Provide guidance to junior specialists of the team to undertake model development, model evaluation and adjustment projects. Develop these colleagues to ensure their work is of the highest quality and answers the commercial questions asked by our clients and internal stakeholders.
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About You
- PhD in Hydrology, Climatology, Engineering or other natural hazard-related discipline. Candidates without a PhD but with a relevant MSc and extensive industry experience may be considered.
- 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
At Gallagher, we believe supporting our colleagues goes far beyond the role itself. For more information, visit our Benefits page.
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits programs designed to support your well-being
- Career development opportunities and ongoing learning
- A collaborative, people-first culture with accessible leadership
- The opportunity to do meaningful work with global reach and local impact
At Gallagher, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to join our Talent Community to stay connected to additional career opportunities. Although this role is listed as full-time, if you’re in a job-share partnership, work reduced hours, or have any other flexible arrangement, please still get in touch. We will also offer reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process if required, so please let us know.
Gallagher is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)
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