About this role
Oversee a team of underwriting professionals for construction loss sensitive business. Lead profitability, growth, and retention outcomes by partnering with brokers and agents, coaching the team, and underwriting the most complex risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage profitability, growth, and retention within a location or region
- Partner with RVP to develop and implement business strategies
- Underwrite and negotiate the most complex, at-risk, or hard-to-close deals
- Provide strategic direction including coaching, training, and performance management
- Maintain relationships with brokers and agencies and meet in person while traveling
Technical Overview
This role is not a software/technical position; it focuses on underwriting expertise for construction loss sensitive risks. It requires deep knowledge of construction loss sensitive products, the regulatory environment, and the local insurance market, along with KPI-style business management through field leadership and broker strategy execution.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is an executive underwriting leader with 8-10+ years of construction loss sensitive underwriting experience. They have managed a field location, led and coached underwriting teams, and can independently assess and negotiate the most complex, at-risk, or hard-to-close deals while driving profitability, growth, and retention through strong broker and agent relationships.
Must-Have Skills
Oversee a team of underwriters who partner with agents and brokersindependently assess complex riskunderwrite and skillfully negotiate the most complexat-riskor hard-to-close dealsManage profitabilitygrowthand retention of businessBachelor's degreeEight to ten years of relevant underwriting experience with experience in construction loss sensitiveExperience leading or managing othersPrior management of a field locationExpert level knowledge of construction loss sensitive productsExpert level knowledge of the regulatory environmentExpert level knowledge of the local insurance market
Required Skills
construction loss sensitive underwritingunderwriting and negotiationrisk assessmentprofitability growth retention managementbroker relationshipssales strategy developmentcross-selling opportunitiescoachingtrainingperformance managementregulatory environment knowledgelocal insurance market knowledge
Hard Skills
construction loss sensitive underwritingunderwriting and risk assessmentunderwriting negotiationprofitability managementgrowth and retention managementcomplex risk underwritingsales strategy developmentcross-selling opportunities identificationbroker and agency relationship managementfield location managementcoachingtrainingperformance managementtravel to meet agents and brokersregulatory environment knowledgelocal insurance market knowledge
Soft Skills
strategic leadershipdecisivenessrelationship buildingdetail-oriented executioncritical thinkingindependent assessment of complex riskcommunication with agents and brokersability to drive results
Keywords for Your Resume
Managing Director - Construction Loss SensitiveManaging Director (MD)MDconstruction loss sensitiveconstruction loss sensitive productsunderwritingrisk assessmentcomplex risk underwritinghard-to-close dealsat-risk dealsprofitabilitygrowthretentionbroker relationshipsagent relationshipsRVPRegional Vice Presidentbusiness strategiessales strategiescross-selling opportunitiesfield locationlocal insurance marketregulatory environmentcoachingtrainingperformance managementtravelin person meetingsagents and brokersfield location management
Deal Breakers
Bachelor's degree, Eight to ten years of relevant underwriting experience with experience in construction loss sensitive, Experience leading or managing others, Prior management of a field location, Expert level knowledge of construction loss sensitive products and the regulatory environment
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