Underwriting Officer, General Industries & Technology

Role Overview

• Ensuring the quality, integrity, and effectiveness of underwriting decisions by setting clear policy, appetite, authority, and processes
• Managing portfolio risk, CAT exposure, and emerging risks
• Maintaining strong alignment with product, actuarial, operations, and field leadership
• Drive forward-looking underwriting strategy by advancing industry, geographic, and line-of-business priorities
• Evolving industry and referral teams, monitoring performance and market trends, and recommending actions to strengthen results and competitiveness.
• Maintain and ensure the quality and integrity of Underwriting decisions for Business Units in scope.
• Advance multidimensional Underwriting Priorities: Industry (Industry Teams), Geographic (DUO’s), Line of Business (product/actuary), BU UW (Middle and Large, OCUO)
• Continue evolution of Industry/Referral teams to include: Strategy Framework/Roadmap, internal networks and alignment with key specialized broker
• Establish, review, maintain and refresh underwriting policy including referral and authority standards, delegation and procedures
• Establish and maintain efficient underwriting process in partnership with operations, IT and underwriting
• Maintain and ensure thoughtful process to understand, underwrite, educate and communicate emerging risks impact on underwriting strategy and execution.
• Identify trends in performance to set future strategy and develop recommendations for improvement/corrective actions
• Work closely with field leadership to garner full view and understanding of external marketplace trends, anticipate customer needs and recommend proactive actions for product, appetite and process
• Deploy and manage quality and compliance standards and refine as necessary to maintain integrity of portfolio
• Responsible for planning process in partnership with Business, Product and Actuary and Industry FAC RE and treaty special acceptance decisions and process

Requirements

• 15+ years of Middle Market Property and Casualty lines carrier underwriting experience
• Exceptional leadership and people development skills, with 5+ years direct or indirect people leadership experience is required
• Proven track record of leading complex portfolios and delivering profitable growth
• Demonstrates strong underwriting acumen, enabling timely, high-quality risk decisions
• Brings prior leadership experience with a proven ability to lead through influence and accountability
• Provides effective portfolio leadership, leveraging underwriting trends, product insights, and strategy to protect and expand profit margins
• Ability to effectively interact with the C-suite and across all levels of the organization
• Assesses, designs, and executes strategic initiatives aligned to business and financial objectives
• Demonstrated bias for speed and execution that serves shareholders and customers.
• Experience with digital transformation or technology-enabled underwriting

Benefits

• short-term or annual bonuses
• long-term incentives
• on-the-spot recognition