Director, Product Management - Climate Change
Moody's
London, United Kingdom
The Model Product Management team plays a crucial role in defining products used by the (re)insurance and financial industry to quantify catastrophe losses and manage exposure portfolios. The ideal candidate will possess expert knowledge in climate perils, a deep understanding of the insurance and risk management landscape, and experience in product management processes. This role offers an exciting opportunity for those passionate about applying scientific and engineering-based methods in business applications and keen on blending technical expertise with a product management role. While focused on future climate risk, the role necessitates close collaboration with Product Managers of our climate peril model products.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the success of Moody’s RMS climate change risk model products for all climate perils globally;
- Research, understand and synthesize insurance market requirements as respects modeling of future climate risk to support key business activities such as portfolio management, pricing and accumulation management;
- Keen understanding of scientific research into climate change and developing views on climate risk. Confidence to educate clients on state of science and opinions, comparing and contrasting views, while supporting Moody’s modeling approach;
- Lead model product requirements and work with the model development team and leadership to optimize investments;
- Handle go to market activities for new models and model updates collaborating closely with present day core model product managers;
- Expand vision, strategy and roadmap meeting customer needs as climate and market dynamics evolve;
- Engage with regulators to represent Moody’s RMS risk model solutions and the development of insurance climate regulatory standards;
- Represent Moody’s RMS in public forums, including presenting at events, participating in interviews, and contributing to blogs and other media outlets;
- Develop and promote Moody’s RMS thought leadership activities around climate change including related insurance topics;
- Collaboration across a wide range of Moody’s Analytics teams, including modelling, consulting, sales, product, and client relationship managers to support successful adoption of our model products that focus on insurance; however, the role is not limited to insurance and includes coordination of climate risk modeling needs and expertise for banking, corporate and asset management business units.
Required qualifications and skills:
- The ideal candidate will hold a MSc or PhD in a climate-related field such as climate science, meteorology or related, with a deep interest in the application of climate science into financial services decision making;
- 5+ years’ experience working with catastrophe models;
- Understanding the range of applications of catastrophe models in the insurance industry;
- Knowledge of financial regulatory disclosures, especially climate change related disclosures. Experience engaging directly with regulators is beneficial;
- Able to lead multiple projects across international cross-functional teams, have excellent organization and time management skills, and be able to build solid relationships;
- A deep interest in understanding end-user business needs, market trends and driving successful products into markets;
- Excellent communication skills and versatility in engaging in technical subjects to a varied client base, with the ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical and business end-users;
- Product management experience is a distinct advantage but not essential;
- An excellent team player with a high-degree of self-motivation and ability to work independently, with experience of handling changing priorities effectively;
- Must have good English written and oral communications skills, and strong presentation skills;
- Some travel may be required.
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