Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics

Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics- Job Description  

Position Summary 

The Senior Vice President, Risk & Portfolio Analytics exists to lead and own the analytics capability across Avoca Risk and its affiliated MGAs. The role is accountable for delivering data-driven portfolio insights, pricing discipline, and performance analytics that support underwriting strategy, capital allocation, and business growth. This position owns a critical enterprise capability spanning actuarial oversight, catastrophe modeling, business intelligence, and portfolio management, serving as both a strategic advisor and hands-on leader. The role directly supports organizational growth, underwriting performance, and scalable analytics transformation. 

Key Responsibilities 

Functional Leadership & Ownership 

• Ownership of the enterprise analytics function across all platform MGAs.  

• Accountability for analytics strategy, governance, and roadmap execution.  

• Acting as a subject matter expert and primary decision-maker for portfolio analytics, pricing, and risk insights.  

• Partnering with underwriting, finance, technology, and capital stakeholders to align analytics outputs with business needs. 

Hands-On Execution & Delivery  

• Direct execution of deep-dive portfolio analysis, actuarial evaluations, and pricing assessments.  

• Overseeing catastrophe modeling workflows and exposure analytics using RMS and related tools. 

• Designing and maintaining analytics processes, reporting structures, and evaluation frameworks.  

• Supporting product and contract reviews to ensure pricing adequacy and technical soundness. 

• Creation and maintenance of portfolio reporting, dashboards, and KPI tracking.  

• Ensuring accuracy, quality, and integrity of analytics outputs and data.  

• Providing regular management reporting and ad hoc analytics for decision support.  

• Monitoring portfolio performance, identifying risks, and resolving issues proactively. 

Cross-Functional Partnership & Integration 

• Partnering with underwriting, finance, and technology teams to integrate analytics into business workflows.  

• Translating complex analytics into clear, decision-ready insights for senior leadership and stakeholders.  

• Supporting alignment across functions and ensuring analytics outputs meet downstream needs.  

• Improving collaboration and resolving cross-functional challenges. 

Growth, Change & Special Initiatives 

• Leading or supporting growth initiatives, new program launches, and analytics expansion efforts.  

• Participating in planning, execution, and delivery of transformation initiatives.  

• Building scalable processes and repeatable analytics frameworks.  

• Ensuring continuity and alignment during organizational change. 

Process Improvement & Best Practices 

• Identifying opportunities to enhance analytics processes, tools, and methodologies.  

• Driving automation and scalability across reporting and modeling capabilities.  

• Staying current on actuarial, analytics, and insurance industry best practices.  

• Championing adoption of improved, efficient ways of working. 

Center of Excellence (COE) Contribution 

• Contributing thought leadership and expertise to the analytics capability across the enterprise.  

• Translating strategy into scalable analytics tools, frameworks, and processes.  

• Developing documentation, playbooks, and standards. 

• Partnering with functional groups to deliver integrated solutions and support change initiatives. 

Accountability 

• Delivering effective, scalable, and strategy-aligned analytics outcomes.  

• Maintaining high standards of quality, accuracy, and reliability.  

• Supporting execution during growth, transformation, and change.  

• Building strong cross-functional partnerships and demonstrating ownership and sound judgment in decision-making. 

Qualifications 

Required 

• Significant experience within insurance, reinsurance, MGA/MGU, or brokerage environments.  

• Strong actuarial foundation with ACAS, FCAS, or equivalent progress preferred.  

• Knowledge of ISO-based pricing methodologies and P&C structures. Experience with RMS or other catastrophe modeling platforms.  

• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, or similar tools. 

• Demonstrated leadership and ability to build and develop teams.  

• Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills. 

Preferred 

• Experience leading analytics transformation or enterprise initiatives.  

• Advanced certifications in actuarial or analytics disciplines.  

• Experience operating in multi-entity or global environments. 

Key Competencies 

• Strategic & Systems Thinking 

• Ownership & Accountability 

• Data-Driven Decision Making 

• Process Design & Continuous Improvement 

• Consulting, Influence & Collaboration 

• Change Agility 

• Business Acumen