Associate Director - Natural Catastrophes & Climate Risk Management

The Role

• Engage with the WTW 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 our 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.
• Providing expert knowledge on developments / advancements in Nat Cat modelling, emerging trends, research and technologies in Nat Cat risk modelling and management, and contribute to the development and continuous improvement of methodologies, tools and models.
• Develop and apply innovative approaches for identifying and quantifying natural hazard and climate risks for our clients, for regions where no standardized risk assessment tools or models exist and to address sector specific modelling challenges.
• Support in training and mentorship of junior colleagues especially around catastrophe modelling.
• Build on leadership skills by providing support to Climate Practice senior leadership team on various topics such as resource utilization, project tracking and efficiencies, learning & development innovations.

The 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.
• Experience in managing catastrophe modelling teams would be desired.
• 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).
• Day to day tasks will include catastrophe and climate risk assessments, data quality assessment of raw data to be fed into catastrophe models, reviews of exposures to Natural Hazards as well as preparation and review of modelling input files, running of market recognized models such as RMS and the review, interpretation and validation of the output in light of underlying modelling assumptions and their limitations in respect to retail projects. We expect that the candidate will take on a role of project management shortly after joining and familiarizing with our tools, processes and projects.
• Good understanding of the climate change related regulatory landscape such as TCFD and ESG.
• 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. would be an advantage.
• Flood modelling experience utilizing software such as TUFLOW, HEC - RAS, MIKE etc. would also be an advantage.
• Able to communicate scientific, statistical, mathematical, and financial concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Highly motivated team player and able to thrive in a growing consultancy team environment and is able to build up and lead a climate and catastrophe risk focused team.
• Experience in post loss/ damage assessments and forensic engineering would also be an advantage.