Cat Modeling Managing Director

Aon is looking for a Managing Director, Catastrophe Management Analytics to join our Client Delivery team in Chicago, Bloomington, New York, or Boston!

As a senior leader within the Catastrophe Management team, you will play an integral role in delivering catastrophe analytics, risk insights, and strategic consulting to Aon Reinsurance Solutions clients. You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients and brokers, providing strategic and analytical leadership across significant client relationships and helping translate complex catastrophe risk into actionable business and reinsurance strategies.

You will also provide leadership across Catastrophe Management, developing colleagues, connecting clients with expertise and capabilities across Aon, and helping advance our analytical solutions, tools, and client delivery.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of catastrophe analytics across significant and/or complex client relationships, ensuring analytics are aligned with client objectives, reinsurance strategy, and broader risk management needs.
• Serve as a trusted analytics advisor and key member of client teams, building strong relationships with clients and brokers and providing perspective on complex catastrophe risk and analytical issues.
• Translate catastrophe modeling, exposure, portfolio, and financial analyses into strategic insights supporting reinsurance decisions, portfolio management, risk selection, and other client risk management objectives.
• Provide senior technical and analytical judgment on complex client challenges, including model assumptions and uncertainty, data quality, model interpretation, and appropriate application of catastrophe analytics.
• Develop a deep understanding of clients' businesses, risk profiles, and strategic priorities to identify needs and develop customized analytical approaches and solutions.
• Connect client needs with expertise, capabilities, products, and solutions across Aon, bringing together the appropriate resources to deliver integrated client solutions.
• Provide leadership across client teams, establishing priorities, maintaining high standards for analytical delivery, and anticipating and addressing resource and capability needs in partnership with Catastrophe Management leadership.
• Develop colleagues and future leaders through coaching, mentoring, technical and client guidance, and ongoing feedback.
• Lead or sponsor the advancement and adoption of analytical capabilities, technologies, tools, workflows, and products that improve client outcomes and organizational effectiveness.
• Provide leadership across Catastrophe Management through segment, client, capability, or subject matter leadership and contribute to broader organizational priorities.

Skills and experience that will lead to success:

• 12+ years of relevant experience in catastrophe modeling, catastrophe risk analytics, reinsurance, insurance, or a closely related field.
• Deep understanding of catastrophe modeling concepts, exposure data, model assumptions and uncertainty, and the application of catastrophe analytics to insurance and reinsurance decision-making.
• Experience using leading catastrophe modeling platforms and interpreting model output, along with strong working knowledge of the tools used to deliver and communicate catastrophe analytics.
• Strong understanding of reinsurance structures and demonstrated ability to connect catastrophe analytics with reinsurance strategy and broader client risk management objectives.
• Demonstrated experience leading analytics for significant and/or complex client relationships and developing trusted relationships with senior client and broking stakeholders.
• Proven ability to communicate complex analytical concepts, implications, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated leadership across teams, accounts, or analytical initiatives, with the ability to influence outcomes and work effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Experience developing colleagues through mentoring, coaching, feedback, and leadership of multidisciplinary client teams.
• Experience contributing to broader analytical, capability, technology, or organizational initiatives beyond individual client assignments.
• BA/BS degree in a quantitative, analytical, scientific, actuarial, engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Desired Skills (not required, but would help you stand out)

• Experience supporting global and/or complex commercial accounts with sophisticated catastrophe risk and analytics needs.
• Experience leading significant analytical capabilities, products, technology, or organizational initiatives.
• Industry certifications such as ARe, CPCU, CCRMP, or CCRA are a plus, but not required.

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $170,000 - $230,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.

This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.