Ryan Specialty
Senior Actuarial Manager
Remote - United States · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$136k-$170kDetected 86 days ago
PythonSQLData ScienceStatisticsExcelProcess ImprovementSensorsMentoringActuarial ScienceUnderwriting
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About the role
- Communicate complex actuarial and data science concepts in clear, business-friendly language to executives and non-technical stakeholders.
- Direct experience leading both pricing and reserving workstreams, including indications, portfolio profitability reviews, and reserve analyses.
- Prior responsibility for reserve studies (including IBNR), loss ratio monitoring, and partnering with Finance on reserve reviews and planning.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end pricing strategy across our property portfolio, ensuring rates align with risk, growth, and profitability goals.
- Design, build, and maintain advanced pricing models using GLMs, GAMs, and GBMs, including model governance, validation, and monitoring.
- Own reserving strategy and delivery, including IBNR, loss ratio analysis, and reserve adequacy reviews in partnership with Finance.
- Upgrade, modernize, and maintain rating tools/raters so that underwriters and distribution partners have fast, intuitive, and accurate pricing.
- Partner with underwriting, product, finance, and reinsurance to translate analytics into portfolio, product, and reinsurance decisions.
- Develop, coach, and grow a high-performing actuarial team; set clear expectations, provide feedback, and build actuarial bench strength.
- Drive automation and process improvement for pricing and reserving, reducing manual work and improving speed to insight.
- Proven track record building, validating, and deploying pricing models using GLMs, GAMs, and GBMs, ideally into production raters.
- Experience upgrading and maintaining rating tools/raters for underwriters and distribution partners, including testing and change management.
- Minimum 2-3 years managing, mentoring, or leading actuarial staff, with demonstrated success developing junior talent.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
- Strong programming skills in Python or R, with working knowledge of SQL and Excel for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
- ACAS required; FCAS preferred (or within a few exams of Fellowship).
Nice to have
- 7+ years of P&C actuarial experience, with a focus on property lines
- CAT/E&S or specialty property experience strongly preferred.
- Background in a fast-paced environment (e.g., high-growth insurer, MGA, or insurtech) is a plus.
- FCAS preferred (or within a few exams of Fellowship).
- Experience with actuarial and modeling software (e.g., Emblem, Radar, or similar) is a plus.
Skills
- Advanced modeling skills using GLMs, GAMs, and GBMs for pricing, segmentation, and profitability analysis.
Compensation
- This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, discipline, firing, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms, conditions,
Company info
- We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce throughout the organization.
Equal opportunity
- Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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