Commercial Lines Underwriting Consultant - Associate Director

Posted 1 day 12 hours ago by Willis Towers Watson

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London, United Kingdom
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Commercial Lines Underwriting Consultant - Associate Director, London

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Client:

WTW

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

As an Associate Director within the UK P&C Consulting Practice you will work with some of the market's top thought leaders designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions to underwriting and pricing challenges faced by the world's leading commercial insurers.

In your role you will be helping our clients by:

  • Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on client underwriting transformation projects, ensuring alignment between client business objectives and operational changes.
  • Lead and support client's underwriting teams in adopting digital decisioning tools and data-driven underwriting strategies.
  • Collaborate with internal teams and clients to improve underwriting and pricing processes, enhance risk selection, and optimize portfolio performance.
  • Provide insights to clients on portfolio trading and management to support profitable growth and capital efficiency.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, technology adoption, and data integration in underwriting decision-making, including how those changes could be integrated into our product offering.
  • Support the clients in navigating the evolving commercial and specialty insurance landscape, leveraging market trends and digital innovations.

The Role

Your main responsibilities will be as follows:

Clients

  • To build a market profile as a representative and advocate of WTW commercial and specialty lines underwriting and pricing consulting services and software tools
  • Develop a trusted advisor relationship with client contacts through effective communication and efficient, quality execution of projects
  • Actively seek to be involved in a variety of work to ensure a broad skill set (technical, management and client) is maintained and developed
  • Interface with colleagues from other practices and regions on assignments that reflect the client's broader business issues
  • Demonstrate commitment to WTW's professional standards in managing analyses and in communications with clients

Thought leadership

  • To develop new relevant propositions or to enhance current propositions in commercial and specialty lines underwriting and pricing leveraging WTW's toolset and broader underwriting and pricing intellectual property and resources
  • Lead or contribute to the development of the company's intellectual capital including plans for taking this to market
  • Have a desire to establish and enhance a public reputation in a chosen specialism through the production of articles and presentations

Financial and business development

  • Meet goals for billable hours and intellectual capital development
  • Develop and present proposals to potential clients, demonstrating the economic value of the company's offerings
  • Use contacts within current network to obtain introductions to new contacts; work to develop supporters for company's products and services

People

  • Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams
  • Serve as a manager and/or mentor to more junior associates training them on the specificities of the London Market, including processes, systems and market operations.