Jobs · Finance · New Jersey

Chief Pricing Actuary – Global Wholesale and Specialty

Everest · Warren, NJ · 6 days ago
Finance$344k–$400k/yrFull-time

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.

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.

  • Lead the transformation of the pricing organization into a technology-enabled, analytics-driven function focused on innovation, efficiency, and business impact.

  • 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 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.

  • Promote consistency and transparency across all pricing and analytical activities globally.

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.

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