What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Underwriting Manager - Commercial P&C Insurance position at Career Site?
Duties & Functions
Underwriting Strategy & Execution
- Review Underwriting Guidelines and rules of various divisions, drawing on historical underwriting expertise to suggest changes and implement.
- Define and refine underwriting appetite, ensuring risk selection aligns with financial objectives and market opportunities.
- Partner with distribution teams to develop underwriting solutions tailored to distribution channel(s) needs
- Ensure underwriting consistency across regional and national underwriting teams.
- Supports the CUO in any underwriting referral(s) escalated
Portfolio Management & Risk Governance
- Set underwriting authority levels (Letters of Authority) and ensure adherence to corporate risk tolerances and compliance standards.
- Lead team responsible for Auditing against those guidelines.
Product Development & Market Innovation
- Enhance underwriting efficiency through automation, data analytics, and AI-driven risk assessment tools.
- Lead underwriting innovation initiatives, leveraging technology to streamline risk assessment and decision-making.
Leadership & Team Development
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and training to underwriting teams across property and casualty disciplines.
- Foster a high-performance underwriting culture that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- This position has the potential to evolve into a role with direct oversight of Corporate Underwriting staff.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of commercial P&C insurance industry business experience either in an Underwriting or a Product capacity or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Knowledge of multiple commercial products
- Prior Underwriting or Product experience with, General Liability, Property/Inland Marine, Professional
- E&S experience preferred but not required
- In-depth knowledge of multiple P&C products with a specific focus on General Liability, Property (including Inland Marine), Umbrella/Excess Casualty, Professional.
- Experience successfully communicating with, selling to, and obtaining the support of internal and external senior leadership; excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Strong knowledge and experience in a variety of state regulatory environment changes impacting company products
- Ability to act independently and make sound decisions based on company, product, and regulatory knowledge
- Proven personal leadership skills with an ability to collaborate and maintain relationships throughout the organization
- Problem solving ability and the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and align activities and priorities to meet goals
- Proven ability to think strategically and innovatively
- Ability to manage multiple projects; keeping projects on track and advising management when not
- Industry designations such as AU, CPCU, CIC, etc are a plus
