Chief Underwriting Officer

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We are working with a well-established E&S Property & Casualty insurance organization seeking an experienced Chief Underwriting Officer to lead enterprise underwriting strategy, portfolio management, underwriting governance, and risk oversight across multiple business units. This is a highly visible executive leadership role with responsibility for protecting long-term underwriting profitability, portfolio balance, and overall financial performance.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Oversee Corporate Underwriting, Audit & Quality Assurance, and Risk Engineering.
• Partner with business unit leaders to evaluate portfolio performance, financial targets, growth strategies, and risk tolerances.
• Monitor emerging legal, claims, regulatory, and industry trends that could impact future profitability.
• Ensure underwriting practices remain aligned with corporate guidelines, letters of authority, and reinsurance requirements.
• Partner with Actuarial to achieve technical pricing objectives and strengthen underwriting discipline.
• Work with casualty and property reinsurers and reinsurance brokers to strategically market and place reinsurance coverage.
• Partner with Enterprise Risk Management to identify and address emerging risks.
• Collaborate with IT, Actuarial, HR, and Corporate Underwriting to improve underwriting tools, processes, and efficiency.

Experience:

• 15+ years of progressively responsible commercial lines underwriting experience.
• Deep technical expertise across Commercial General Liability, Excess Liability, Inland Marine, and Bind Property & Liability.
• Significant Commercial Excess & Surplus Casualty experience strongly preferred.
• Extensive relationships and experience with casualty and property reinsurers and reinsurance brokers.
• Proven experience managing and developing high-performance underwriting teams across multiple locations and business units.
• Strong portfolio management, analytical, and risk assessment capabilities.

Compensation:

$400,000 to $500,000, Bonus + LTI. Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), flexible spending, short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, long-term care, paid parental leave, vacation and other paid time off.