What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reinsurance Health Actuary position at Lockton?
Your Responsibilities
Lockton Re’s AHL actuarial team is expanding, and we’re looking for a skilled actuary to join us. This role will focus on health reinsurance products, contributing to innovative analytics that help clients manage risk and capital.
What You'll Work On:
Our actuarial team drives impactful analytics & advisory services across a range of reinsurance solutions. Recent projects include:
What We're Looking For:
Lockton Re’s AHL actuarial team is expanding, and we’re looking for a skilled actuary to join us. This role will focus on health reinsurance products, contributing to innovative analytics that help clients manage risk and capital.
What You'll Work On:
Our actuarial team drives impactful analytics & advisory services across a range of reinsurance solutions. Recent projects include:
- Structuring health reinsurance placements for insurers across Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid markets, as well as MGUs offering stop-loss coverage for self-funded employers.
- Developing capital-motivated transactions to help insurers efficiently manage risk-based capital requirements.
- Supporting financial risk management in Value-Based Care (VBC) arrangements, including modeling downside risk & structuring coverage for provider risk arrangements.
- Advising startups and investors on reinsurance & risk strategies.
- Evaluating captives and alternative risk financing approaches.
- Own underwriting & pricing analyses for AHL reinsurance treaties, including data processing and refinement.
- Develop and enhance AHL actuarial models (ex. pricing & underwriting models across stop loss, provider excess, VBC, capital motivated)
- Build analytics solutions, including benchmarking, dashboards, and predictive models for AHL clients
- Assist with data warehousing, ETL, and documentation.
- Prepare and present client-ready analyses and presentations, with opportunities for direct client engagement.
- Contribute to analytics related to other lines, ex.) Life, DI, and Accident, as opportunities arise and as our practice grows
- Collaborate across teams (brokers, actuaries, data/analytics, capital advisory)
What We're Looking For:
- Experience: 7 years of actuarial work in healthcare/benefits /health insurance, ASA preferred:
- Knowledge of health reinsurance & stop-loss products preferred.
- Familiarity with Value-Based Care and alternative payment models.
- Pricing and/or underwriting experience is a strong advantage.
- Bonus: Exposure to Life, DI, or Accident products (nice-to-have, but not required).
- Technical Skills: Hands-on experience working with claims-level data.
- Ideally proficient in SQL, R, Python, PySpark, or similar tools for handling large datasets.
- Dashboarding expertise is a strong advantage.
- Soft Skills:
- Strong communication skills with an interest in client-facing work.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, team-oriented environment.
- Experience working on cross-functional projects, with a drive for innovation and process improvements.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills to balance multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
- Open to learning, development, and continuous skill growth.