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Bringing together data science and AI engineering, it has a clear goal: making a measurable difference to underwriting. As one of the first hires into our new Underwriting Analytics function, you will be working in one of the most exciting parts of the business, with a real opportunity to make an impact.\nAt first, most of your focus will be on understanding the problems underwriters face and developing practical solutions that lay the foundation for analytics. Over time, the role will move towards more analytical solutions, making the most of the data you have helped develop. This is work at the forefront of insurance, and our ambition is to become market leading in how we use data and AI to support underwriting.\n\nStart with the underwriting problem. Spend time with underwriters, portfolio managers and product heads to understand their challenges first-hand, andagree which problems are worth solving and what success looks like.\n\nDevelop the right solution. Use analytics and technology to solve each problem, choosing the simplest approach that works, whether analysis, automation, an AI workflow, a statistical or machine learning model, or a third-party product.\n\nApply AI and automation to underwriting workflows. Use large language models, document AI and automation to turn unstructured information, such as submissions, emails and documents, into structured data, and to take repetitive manual effort out of underwriting processes. The data these tools capture will power the analytics that follow.\n\nBuild prototypes that prove value. Develop working prototypes in collaboration with underwriters, anduse their feedback to shape solutions that work in practice.\n\nHand over to central teams to deliver. Pass successful prototypes to our central data and technology teams with clear requirements, results and success measures, then support them through delivery and adoption.\n\nApply data science to underwriting decisions. Build statistical and machine learning models, such as segmentation, triage and propensity models, that help underwriters select risks, manage referrals, refine appetite and monitor portfolio performance.\n\nTurn portfolio and market data into insight. Analyse broker flow, quote-to-bind conversion and portfolio performance, and track changes in rates, terms and conditions to spot shifts in the market early. Share what you find in plain language, so underwriting teams and senior management can see where to focus and when to act.\n\nHelp set the AI foundations for the future. Shape how the new function grows, andkeep up with developments in data science and AI so we can bring the best ideas into underwriting.\nEssential\n\nStatistics and machine learning. You have applied statistical and machine learning methods, to real business problems, and can design analyses and experiments that measure impact.\n\nPython and SQL. 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