Senior Strategy Consultant – Global Specialty Insurance

Overview

As a Senior Strategy Consultant in WTW’s Global Specialty, you will help leading insurers, reinsurers and brokers navigate growth, profitability and transformation in a data-driven, digitally enabled market. You’ll work across strategy, analytics and underwriting to deliver measurable client outcomes, shaping opportunities from portfolio optimization to operating-model change. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams and executives to expand WTW’s consulting footprint and deliver high-impact recommendations. This role offers exposure to top-tier specialty markets and strategic transformation at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• private healthcare
• group income protection
• defined contribution pension (matched up to 10%)
• hybrid working
• volunteer day

Responsibilities

• Develop trusted client relationships across underwriting, strategy, portfolio management and executive leadership.
• Deliver engagements addressing strategic, commercial and operational challenges in specialty insurance and reinsurance.
• Translate complex insights into actionable recommendations that drive measurable outcomes.
• Facilitate client workshops, interviews and discussions to identify opportunities and define roadmaps.
• Support senior leaders in deepening client relationships and expanding WTW’s consulting footprint.
• Support growth, portfolio optimisation and underwriting performance improvement projects.
• Assess portfolio performance, market position and competitive dynamics to identify profitable growth opportunities.
• Contribute to underwriting transformation, operating model effectiveness and trading efficiency initiatives.
• Help clients leverage data, analytics and technology to improve decision-making and business performance.
• Evaluate emerging market opportunities, distribution models and trends in specialty markets.
• Support insurers through digital transformation and organisational change.
• Contribute to future-state operating models across underwriting, analytics, and portfolio management.
• Support development of solutions improving efficiency, profitability and client outcomes.
• Contribute to WTW’s Global Specialty proposition via market research and thought leadership.
• Create client-facing content and stay informed on London Market, Bermuda, Singapore and global niche ecosystems.

Key requirements

• Experience in management or strategy consulting, insurance consulting or related commercial roles.
• Strong understanding of specialty insurance, reinsurance, Lloyd’s and London Market dynamics.
• Experience with growth strategy, profitability improvement, portfolio optimisation, underwriting transformation or operating model projects.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and deliver data-driven recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management with senior client audiences.
• Experience presenting findings to decision-makers.
• Commercial acumen and interest in growing client relationships and consulting propositions.
• Curiosity about the future of specialty insurance, analytics, technology and digital transformation.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and collaboration skills.

• Strategic thinking
• Execution-focused
• Curiosity
• Data-driven problem solving
• Analytics and technology leverage in insurance
• Stakeholder management (Senior executives)

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