Chief Pricing Actuary – Global Wholesale and Specialty
About the role
Everest is seeking a visionary and commercially-minded Chief Pricing Actuary – Global Wholesale and Specialty to lead the evolution of pricing, underwriting decision science, and advanced analytical capabilities across its Global Wholesale and Specialty businesses. This leader will serve as a strategic partner to Underwriting, Finance, Risk, Technology, and Executive Leadership, driving profitable growth through innovation, underwriting excellence, and disciplined pricing governance.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with the Global Chief Actuary and business leadership to define and execute the long-term vision for pricing, underwriting decision science, and analytical innovation across Everest’s Global Wholesale and Specialty businesses.
Lead the transformation of the pricing organization into a technology-enabled, analytics-driven function focused on innovation, efficiency, and business impact.
Champion the adoption of artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and emerging technologies to enhance underwriting performance and business outcomes.
Establish a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, experimentation, and intellectual curiosity across the actuarial organization.
Serve as a key member of the Global Actuarial Leadership Team and a trusted advisor to senior executives.
Challenge conventional approaches to pricing and underwriting, harness emerging technologies, and build next-generation pricing capabilities that position Everest as an industry leader in data-driven underwriting and risk selection.
Pricing Strategy & Underwriting Performance
Develop and oversee global pricing strategies that support Everest’s profitability, growth, return on capital, and underwriting objectives.
Monitor pricing adequacy and business performance through regular reviews and analytics-driven insights.
Drive underwriting performance improvement initiatives through enhanced segmentation, risk selection, and profitability management.
Lead profitability studies and business performance reviews to identify opportunities for growth, remediation, and capital optimization.
Monitor emerging market, social inflation, legal, economic, regulatory, and competitive trends and incorporate insights into pricing strategies, assumptions, and underwriting guidance.
Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve underwriting efficiency through intelligent workflow solutions.
Advanced Analytics, AI & Decision Science
Establish a roadmap for integrating AI and machine learning into pricing, underwriting, and operational workflows.
Drive development of predictive models, risk scoring methodologies, underwriting decision tools, and real-time underwriting insights.
Promote the responsible use of AI through strong governance, transparency, explainability, and model risk management practices.
Pricing Models & Infrastructure
Oversee the design, development, validation, deployment, and governance of pricing models across all Global Wholesale and Specialty businesses.
Ensure pricing models are calibrated to Everest’s return-on-capital management objectives.
Lead modernization of pricing platforms, tools, and infrastructure to support scalability, consistency, and operational excellence.
Partner with Technology teams to embed pricing and analytical capabilities directly into underwriting workflows and decision-making processes.
Advance data quality, model performance monitoring, and pricing effectiveness measurement across the organization.
Transactional Pricing & Catastrophe Pricing
Support Provide strategic guidance on large, complex, and high-profile transactions.
Support underwriting leadership through sophisticated risk assessment and transaction-level pricing analysis.
Ensure appropriate catastrophe pricing methodologies, tools, and insights are available to support underwriting decisions for catastrophe-exposed risks.
Partner closely with Catastrophe Analytics and Underwriting teams to incorporate catastrophe risk assessments into pricing decisions.
Ensure robust analytical frameworks are available to support complex risk evaluation and underwriting decisions.
Governance & Risk Management
Establish and maintain global pricing governance standards, frameworks, controls, and policies.
Lead pricing model governance and peer reviews and support validation and audit processes.
Maintain strong oversight of analytical methodologies and models.
Partner with Enterprise Risk Management and Model Risk Management functions to promote consistent and transparent pricing and analytical activities globally.
Business Partnership & Enterprise Collaboration
Partner with Reserving, Finance, Capital Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Claims, and Underwriting teams to support enterprise objectives.
Contribute to business planning, underwriting strategy, and capital allocation decisions.
Advise executive leadership on pricing performance, profitability trends, and strategic opportunities.
Talent & Organizational Leadership
Lead and develop a high-performing global pricing and analytics organization.
Attract, retain, and develop top actuarial, data science, and analytical talent.
Foster a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
Create opportunities for professional growth and advancement through mentoring, coaching, and strategic talent development.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Proven track record leading large-scale actuarial, analytics, or pricing organizations within specialty insurance, wholesale insurance, reinsurance, or facultative markets.
Demonstrated ability to influence business strategy and drive enterprise-wide change at executive levels.
Strong commercial acumen with deep understanding of specialty and wholesale insurance business models.
Recognized thought leader in pricing, underwriting decision science, predictive analytics, and underwriting performance management.
Experience driving digital transformation, AI adoption, and modernization initiatives within insurance organizations.
Strong understanding of machine learning, predictive modeling, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies.
Deep expertise in exposure-based pricing, catastrophe risk pricing, stochastic techniques, risk segmentation, predictive modeling, and advanced pricing methodologies.
Strong understanding of return-on-capital frameworks, capital allocation principles, and risk-adjusted performance measurement.
Deep understanding of industry trends, emerging risks, market cycles, social inflation, and evolving loss cost drivers across specialty and wholesale businesses.
Recognized ability to balance technical rigor with commercial pragmatism in dynamic market environments.
Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate complex analytical insights into actionable business decisions.
Strong project and change management capabilities with a track record of delivering transformational outcomes.
Growth mindset with a passion for innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.