Head of Insurance

At Faculty, we transform organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-centric AI.

With more than a decade of experience, we provide over 350 global customers with software, bespoke AI consultancy, and Fellows from our award winning Fellowship programme.

Our expert team brings together leaders from across government, academia and global tech giants to solve the biggest challenges in applied AI.

Should you join us, you’ll have the chance to work with, and learn from, some of the brilliant minds who are bringing Frontier AI to the frontlines of the world.

About the Role:

Faculty are at the forefront of AI transformation in insurance, working with FTSE 100 insurers in the UK and some of the largest insurers internationally to re-conceive their products, services and operations. We are further expanding our footprint in this space and are searching for a Head of Insurance with deep knowledge and experience in the sector and a passion for using technology to improve it.

Role Specific responsibilities:

• Sector strategy: Develop a strategy for growing the insurance sales pipeline that is aligned with the wider strategy for the Financial Services Business Unit and Faculty as a whole

• Revenue growth: Achieve or exceed revenue targets, primarily by acquiring new clients in the insurance sector

• Market positioning and strategic partnerships: Develop innovative client propositions and establish partnerships with other firms that can drive sales growth

• Thought leadership: Build Faculty’s profile in the insurance sector by delivering original and creative insights about AI in insurance through high-profile speaking engagements and publications

• Client management: Foster strong relationships with C-suite stakeholders 

• Account planning: Design transformation programmes for insurance clients, encompassing organisational change that supports the application of AI into core insurance business activities such as underwriting

• Delivery enablement: Provide oversight of deliverables for insurance clients, ensuring high-quality outcomes by closely working with delivery teams

Who we are looking for:

• Strategic vision: A holistic view of the key strategic opportunities and challenges facing different types of firms in the insurance market globally gained through both relevant industry and consulting experience, with a distinctive, high-level intuition on how AI can address them 

• Insurance Expertise: Deep understanding of core insurance technicalities such as actuarial modelling, underwriting, risk management, and financial investment evidenced from prior hands-on roles

• Compelling communicator: Adept at building rapport and relationships with people, including executives, through clear and confident communication, ideally with a track record of sales into the insurance sector

• Delivery excellence: A history of successfully driving high-quality technology or technical deliverables to completion within demanding deadlines, preferably in a programme management capacity

• Principled leadership: Capable of inspiring and motivating individuals in a management role, coupled with the ability to address difficult issues directly and constructively

• AI enthusiasm: Genuine interest in and broad familiarity with AI, with proven learning agility in a technical domain   

The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals.
Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet.