Overview In this role you lead catastrophe modeling and analytics at Coaction, guiding portfolio monitoring, reporting, and integration of CAT insights into underwriting and reinsurance decisions. You will partner with cross-functional teams to enhance risk visibility, support strategic underwriting decisions, and drive improvements in data-driven processes. The position offers influence over risk management strategy, with opportunities to shape how catastrophe analytics informs guidance to executives, regulators, and brokers. This role suits a seasoned CAT professional who thrives in a high-performance, collaborative environment.
Compensation / Benefits- discretionary incentive bonus
- paid time off
- medical
- dental
- retirement
- standard benefits package
Responsibilities- Partner with stakeholders to embed catastrophe analytics in underwriting and reinsurance decisions across business units.
- Monitor CAT portfolio using models and accumulation analytics; explain changes and suggest actions to improve risk management.
- Deliver high-quality insights and reports to internal and external audiences, and streamline property data reporting for faster insight and self-service.
- Oversee pre- and post-event monitoring and reporting, coordinating with CUO, CRO, actuarial, claims, reinsurance, and others.
- Support optimal underwriting strategies within a risk/reward framework with CUO and CRO teams.
- Evaluate new business opportunities including CAT exposures to understand accumulation impact and de-risking options.
- Manage CAT referral processes across business areas and drive process improvements as models and systems evolve.
- Maintain and enhance analytical reinsurance framework using diverse data sources to evaluate solutions and tradeoffs.
- Manage and train staff on CAT modeling tools (including AIR models) and relevant databases and analytics tools.
- Support reinsurance operations in monitoring and reporting across property placements and collaborate with vendors and brokers to improve capabilities.
Key requirements- 10-15 years of CAT management and modeling experience with track record of improving CAT reporting, underwriting analytics, and reinsurance decisions.
- Experience partnering with colleagues across functions, managing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Strong ability to build and manage internal/external stakeholder relationships with mutual respect and challenge.
- Solid technical knowledge of catastrophe models; AIR preferred, with ability to lead platform transitions.
- Proven ability to lead, train, and motivate a team as both manager and individual contributor.
- Conscientious, organized, efficient, autonomous.
- Ability to summarize complex cross-functional issues clearly for non-technical audiences.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- stakeholder relationship management
- clear communication to non-technical audiences
- leadership and team development
- catastrophe modeling
- AIR models
- accumulation management analytics
