Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer, Portfolio Strategy & Management
$275,000.00 - 360,000.00
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Posted 11 days ago
SENIORITY
Manager
SALARY
$275,000.00 - 360,000.00
About the role
- Lead enterprise underwriting portfolio management, including performance, mix, concentration, volatility and emerging portfolio issues.* Drive portfolio optimization and capacity deployment across products and channels in alignment with the CUO’s risk appetite and strategic direction.* Develop cross-business portfolio insights and identify opportunities for profitable growth, diversification and corrective action.* Coordinate strategic underwriting planning and help connect portfolio performance to longer-term business priorities.* Lead distribution and broker portfolio analysis where an enterprise view improves underwriting decision-making.* Partner with Actuarial to incorporate pricing adequacy, loss-cost trends and portfolio economics into portfolio decisions while preserving Actuarial’s independent challenge.* Partner with Reinsurance on capacity, volatility, aggregation and risk-transfer considerations while Reinsurance remains directly aligned to the CUO.* Provide executive leadership to Risk Engineering, ensuring risk-selection, loss-prevention, engineering and emerging-risk insights are integrated directly into enterprise portfolio strategy and underwriting decisions.* Partner closely with the Deputy CUO, Underwriting Excellence, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Risk Engineering, Legal/Compliance, the MSIG international CUO and senior leadership to translate enterprise portfolio insights into underwriting standards, priorities and actions.* Provide portfolio challenge to business/product leaders while preserving their ownership of P&L, growth, market strategy, broker/MGA commercial relationships and underwriting execution within authority. Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education and Experience Required:* Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, risk management, insurance, or a related field experience; advanced degree highly desirable.* 15+ years of progressive specialty or Commercial P&C underwriting experience, including significant enterprise or senior leadership responsibility.* Broad underwriting and portfolio-management expertise across multiple Commercial P&C products, channels, and business units.* Demonstrated experience leading enterprise portfolio management, including performance oversight, portfolio review, mix, concentration, volatility, and corrective action.* Deep experience evaluating portfolio economics and underwriting performance across products, channels and business units.* Proven ability to interpret underwriting performance and make enterprise-level decisions related to capacity deployment, portfolio mix, concentration, growth, and corrective action.* Experience integrating underwriting, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Risk Engineering, distribution, and portfolio analytics perspectives into strategic business decisions.* Commercially oriented and analytically strong, with the judgment and credibility to challenge and influence senior business and underwriting leaders.* Strong executive communication, enterprise leadership, decision-making, and change-leadership skills.
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