Senior CAT Analyst - Property Research - Earthquake Specialist

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.

Gallagher Re – Senior CAT Analyst – Property Research Team – EARTHQUAKE

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.

• Act as a senior risk advisor to our clients, working closely with broking teams to interpret and present earthquake model results across multiple 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
• 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.

• PhD in earthquake risk, earthquake engineering, seismology or similar
• 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

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with View email address on jobs.ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.