Head of Cyber Reinsurance Actuarial

US05Mercer Investments LLC

🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Hybrid
Manager or above
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Company:

Marsh

Description:

TheHead of Cyber Reinsurance Actuarialleads the actuarial function supporting cyber reinsurance broking and advisory atMarsh Re. This role is accountable for developing and maintaining cyber actuarial analytics, translating model outputs into actionable placement and portfolio insights, and partnering with broking, analytics, and advisory teams to deliver high-quality client and market solutions.

We will count on you to:

Own the actuarial strategy for cyber projects aligning analytics to placement needs and client objectives.
Lead cyber pricing and portfolio analytics, including experience analysis, exposure/rate adequacy views, and scenario and stress testing to support structuring and negotiation.
Develop and oversee actuarial methodologies for cyber (frequency/severity, tail risk, aggregation, systemic/catastrophe-style events), including model governance, assumptions, and limitations documentation.
Translate technical results into clear client-facing insights and materials for submissions, renewals, and stewardship reviews (e.g., key drivers, sensitivities, uncertainty ranges).
Partner closely with broking to support market strategy, reinsurer engagement, and deal execution; provide actuarial support in negotiations where needed.
Establish strong peer review and quality controls for actuarial work products, consistent with professional standards and internal governance expectations for analytics work. Build and manage a high-performing cyber actuarial team (hiring, coaching, development, workload prioritisation), fostering a culture of technical excellence and commercial impact.
Contribute to thought leadership (market insights, benchmarking, and research) that supports the firm’s cyber positioning with clients and reinsurers.

What you need to have:

Qualified actuary (FIA/FCAS/FSA or equivalent), with significant post-qualification experience in (re)insurance pricing and portfolio analytics.
Prior experience in cyber (re)insurance, including cyber pricing and portfolio analytics and/or cyber tail risk/aggregation/systemic risk considerations.
Demonstrated expertise in building and governing actuarial models and methodologies, including documentation of assumptions, limitations, and uncertainty.
Proven ability to translate complex technical outputs into clear, client-ready insights and commercially actionable recommendations for placements and portfolio strategy.

What makes you stand out?

Strong understanding of reinsurance structuring and the broking lifecycle, with credibility in supporting negotiations and reinsurer engagement.
Thought leadership track record (market insights, benchmarking, research, or external speaking/publishing) in cyber or specialty (re)insurance analytics.
Experience leading and developing high-performing teams, including hiring, coaching, and setting quality/peer review standards.

Why join our team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

Head of Cyber Reinsurance Actuarial · US05Mercer Investments LLC

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