Associate Director – Data Scientist for North America

Do you want to be at the forefront of insurance industry innovation and leadership? Do you want to partner with insurers across North America to help deliver cutting-edge capabilities across their organizations? Do you want to work with the original Insurtech, driving performance improvement through our technology? If so, this might be the opportunity for you!

WTW is looking for an experienced P&C data scientist in the North American market with predictive modelling, advanced analytics, and AI experience to join as a Property & Casualty (P&C) Associate Director in our Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) practice. In this role, you will collaborate with our team of pricing, portfolio management, underwriting, finance and claims experts to design and implement cutting-edge solutions to challenges faced by the top insurers. 

Note: This position can be based in a major North American market and is open to remote/virtual work. Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.

The Organization

ICT provides a powerful combination of advisory services for insurance companies, integrated with leading-edge technology solutions and software, all underpinned by unparalleled analytical capability. We work with insurers to help build, enable and embed advanced analytics throughout organizations, in order to transform performance for the business and for customers.

WTW has ambitious growth plans for our North America P&C propositions. Our goal is to substantially increase our footprint as we advise our insurance clients, with data science and predictive modelling being a clear enabler of transformation throughout their organizations. Our combination of market expertise and market-leading analytical software (in particular Radar) uniquely positions us to deliver meaningful impact for our clients.

The Responsibilities

• Develop integrated consulting and technology solutions for our clients
• Combine extensive knowledge of data science market practice in an insurance context and innovation to build robust analytics processes that deliver insights to decision makers at the point of decision making
• Develop and implement data strategies for clients
• Design, build, test and run data science processes for clients
• Design data science technology infrastructures for clients’ analytical and operational functions
• Build effective predictive models, analytical tools, and processes using a wide range of analytical and data science techniques inclusive of AI
• Contribute to the development of WTW’s intellectual capital and future proposition development, including AI and go-to-market strategy
• Prepare proposals and presentations leveraging marketing resources, practice groups, subject matter experts and client relationship managers for existing clients
• Serve as a mentor and project manager to more junior colleagues, training them on both the technical and theoretical aspects of insurance as well as project delivery methods
• Meet billable hour target and revenue goals, operating as a highly respected and effective consultant