Location: In-office, 6 days per week
Compensation: £65,000–£85,000 + equity
We're looking for a Portfolio Manager to own the performance of our insurance book end-to-end. You'll combine technical insurance expertise with a commercial, data-driven mindset to steer the portfolio toward sustainable, profitable growth.
• Own portfolio performance: monitor loss ratios, mix, concentration, and profitability across product lines.
• Identify underperforming segments and design interventions across pricing, underwriting, and distribution.
• Set and refine underwriting appetite and guidelines in partnership with underwriters and actuaries.
• Build dashboards and reporting that give the business a clear view of portfolio health.
• Lead reinsurance discussions and capital efficiency initiatives.
• Translate portfolio insights into product, pricing, and wording changes.
• 2–3+ years in portfolio management, performance management, or a similar role at a traditional carrier.
• Strong technical capability across pricing, underwriting, and policy wording.
• Experience managing or analyzing books spanning multiple product lines.
• Comfortable with data: able to interrogate loss triangles, rate adequacy, and mix shifts.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to make trade-offs between growth and profitability.
• Willing and able to work from our office six days per week.
• Experience setting underwriting appetite or guidelines for a new product or new market entry.
• Exposure to reinsurance structuring and treaty negotiation.
• Background that bridges actuarial and underwriting functions.
• Experience in a high-growth or early-stage insurance environment.
• Base salary of £65,000–£85,000, depending on experience.
• Equity options.
• Direct ownership of a critical function in a high-growth insurance business.