Associate Director - Natural Catastrophes & Climate Risk Management

The Role This is a full-time role for an individual with strong analytical, numerical/statistical, scientific or civil engineering background to join the Climate Practice | Physical Risk team at WTW as an associate or lead associate for catastrophe and climate risk impact assessments. The position requires both delivering consulting projects and supporting with the Natural Catastrophe and Climate Risk Management Business development with focus on EMEA. Key objectives are therefore to assist the Climate Practice | Physical Risk team in developing the catastrophe and climate risk management business in these geographies as well as providing catastrophe and climate risk engineering type assessments or utilizing the insurance market recognized catastrophe risk models with focus on consulting projects on behalf of the WTW’s corporate client base. The Team The successful candidate will join a team of industry-leading experts spanning across insurance, science and engineering, delivering unrivalled analytical risk and risk engineering services. This exciting opportunity comes with various technical challenges across diverse industries and involves projects globally. Engage with the WTW Risk & Broking community as well as external clients to develop the Natural Catastrophe and Climate Risk Management Business with focus on GB, EMEA and APAC. Responsible for developing leads, opportunities and wins and tracking business development pipeline in our CRM system. Management of catastrophe and climate risk consulting projects (mainly portfolio modelling and single site risk engineering), utilizing catastrophe models of RMS, KatRisk, JBA where necessary. This will involve project management of small teams of analysts to ensure projects are delivered on time, and within budget. Provide subject matter expertise in the running and evaluation of natural catastrophe models to support in the delivery and technical review of actuarial analyses and wider Risk & Analytics consulting projects. Providing expert knowledge on developments / advancements in Nat Cat modelling, emerging trends, research and technologies in Nat Cat risk modelling and management, and contribute to the development and continuous improvement of methodologies, tools and models. Develop and apply innovative approaches for identifying and quantifying natural hazard and climate risks for our clients, for regions where no standardized risk assessment tools or models exist and to address sector specific modelling challenges. Support in training and mentorship of junior colleagues especially around catastrophe modelling. Build on leadership skills by providing support to Climate Practice senior leadership team on various topics such as resource utilization, project tracking and efficiencies, learning & development innovations.