Marc Freyne

Head of Underwriting and Portfolio Management

County Dublin, Ireland

About

Experience

  • Vhi (Full-time · 4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Head of Underwriting and Portfolio Management
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Head of Pricing and Portfolio Management
      Jul 2023 - Mar 2024 · 9 mos

    • Head of Pricing
      Apr 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • New Ireland Assurance (15 yrs 2 mos)
    • Head Of Pricing and Insights
      Aug 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Led the Retail Pricing, Corporate Pricing and Business Retention departments. Chaired Pricing and Persistency Management committees. Reported to Commercial Director. • Led and motivated New Ireland Pricing team to ensure that the company met 2018 and 2019 sales targets of €300m and €350m (annual premium equivalent) respectively. • Led our Business Retention team to meet our 2019 target of 92% - a company high in recent years. Managed and minimised Covid risk to company persistency levels during 2020. • Championed introduction of Prophet software into department to ensure both pricing and valuations departments worked off same program and thus ensuring consistency of pricing and reporting. • Increased agility of department to launch a huge number of pricing initiatives. • Introduced standardised, metric-based approach to Pricing Committee submissions. Enabled a more consistent understanding amongst senior stakeholders of company risk and impact on business targets. • Provided budget to Distribution departments to empower them to make pricing calls within parameters. Increased accountability and engagement. • Nurtured a close relationship with Risk, Finance, Customer Service and Distribution areas. • Introduced pricing basis, distinct from reporting basis to minimise impact of Solvency II process simplifications. • Presented to senior Bank of Ireland Asset Liability committee on half-yearly pricing position.

    • Actuarial Operations Manager
      Nov 2016 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Responsibilities included the business ownership of existing business quotation systems and documentation, and oversight of the company’s annual benefit statement process. Managed a team of seven junior actuaries. Reported to Head of Actuarial Services. • Acted with integrity to ensure any historic issues were reported and resolved quickly. • Implemented the first Product Lifecycle review under EIOPA Product Oversight and Governance. • Strove to reduce the number of customer statements produced on non-core systems. • Chair of Annual Benefit Statement committee. • Oversaw the company Policy Audit process.

    • Product Management - Actuary
      Aug 2011 - Nov 2016 · 5 yrs 4 mos

      Responsibilities included the business ownership of existing business quotation systems and documentation, and oversight of the company’s annual benefit statement process. Managed a team of seven junior actuaries. Reported to Head of Actuarial Services. • Acted with integrity to ensure any historic issues were reported and resolved quickly. • Implemented the first Product Lifecycle review under EIOPA Product Oversight and Governance. • Strove to reduce the number of customer statements produced on non-core systems. • Chair of Annual Benefit Statement committee. • Oversaw the company Policy Audit process.