Lead Portfolio and Performance Analytics

Lead, Portfolio and Performance Analytics – CUO Office, Continental Europe

Sompo offers an opportunity for a Lead, Portfolio and Performance Analytics in our newly established CUO Office team for Continental Europe. Reporting directly to the Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) for Continental Europe, this role builds central portfolio monitoring and sustainable profitability across Sompo’s commercial insurance operations in the region.

Location: Preferred based in the Zurich office, with options in Paris, Milan, Cologne or Munich. The role is fully collaborative across locations.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Performance Analysis: Evaluate underwriting performance, identify trends, and analyze profitability, risk quality, and portfolio composition to drive growth and improvement. Prepare quarterly and ad-hoc performance reviews for leadership.
• Underwriting Portfolio Steering: Refine risk appetite, recommend strategies for growth or remediation, support underwriting plans, and monitor execution against targets.
• Risk Aggregation & Management: Analyze risk accumulation across perils and geographies, monitor exposure limits, and integrate data into reinsurance and capital modeling.
• Catastrophe & Scenario Analysis: Conduct catastrophe loss scenarios, assess tail risks, and support stress testing, capital planning, and reinsurance structuring.
• Pricing & Profitability Support: Collaborate with pricing teams to analyze rate adequacy, validate assumptions, and recommend underwriting and renewal actions.
• Predictive Analytics: Develop predictive models and leverage advanced analytics to support underwriting automation and decision‑making tools.
• Reporting & Dashboards: Create executive dashboards, automate underwriting metric reporting, and provide data‑driven insights for decision makers.
• Reinsurance Strategy Support: Provide exposure and performance data to inform treaty and facultative decisions and improve retention strategies.
• Regulatory & Capital Requirements: Support regulatory filings, collaborate on risk assessments, and align portfolio decisions with capital efficiency.
• Innovation & Technology: Pilot AI models, integrate new data sources, and drive digitization of portfolio management processes.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in commercial insurance, focusing on large corporate industry portfolios.
• Strong knowledge of underwriting principles, risk aggregation, catastrophe modeling, and reinsurance structures.
• General understanding of insurance product coverages, resulting exposures and their triggering portfolio impacts.
• Proficiency in data analytics tools and predictive modeling (Python or R).
• Expertise in regulatory compliance (e.g., Solvency II, NAIC), capital modeling, and risk management.
• Proven leadership and collaboration skills with cross‑functional teams and executive management.
• Innovative and investigative mindset with experience in leveraging technology, advanced analytics, and digitization for portfolio optimization.
• Natural curiosity with a drive to uncover insights and understand underlying patterns.

Benefits

• Expansive Health & Wellness Benefits
• Generous Retirement & Savings Plans
• Global Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance

Sompo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.