Executive Underwriting Manager

Position Summary The Executive Underwriting Manager, Shared & Layered is responsible for leading underwriting strategy, portfolio performance, and talent development for the Global Risk Solutions (GRS) North America Shared & Layered Property business. This leader drives profitable growth through disciplined underwriting, effective capacity deployment, portfolio management, and strong partnerships with brokers, Risk Engineering, Claims, Actuarial, Product, Distribution, and Finance teams. As a senior underwriting leader, the Executive Underwriting Manager establishes underwriting direction, manages portfolio performance, and serves as a key authority on complex property risks, ensuring alignment among growth, profitability, and risk appetite objectives.

Responsibilities

• Underwriting and Portfolio Leadership Develop and execute underwriting strategies to achieve profitable growth across the Shared & Layered Property portfolio.
• Oversee underwriting performance across large and complex property risks, including but not limited to primary, buffer, and excess layers, quota share, and alternative risk transfer deals.
• Monitor portfolio composition, rate adequacy, retention, new business production, and profitability metrics.
• Ensure disciplined deployment of underwriting capacity consistent with enterprise risk appetite.
• Evaluate market opportunities and emerging property trends to optimize portfolio performance.
• Property Risk Expertise Serve as the senior underwriting authority for complex property accounts and large-limit property programs.
• Provide expertise on property exposures, account structures, coverage design, pricing, capacity deployment, and terms and conditions.
• Partner with Risk Engineering to evaluate exposures and strengthen underwriting outcomes.
• Monitor catastrophe aggregation, concentration management, and portfolio exposure trends.
• Ensure underwriting decisions appropriately balance growth opportunities with risk management objectives.
• Apply knowledge of reinsurance considerations and capacity constraints when shaping account and portfolio decisions.
• Distribution and Market Leadership Build and strengthen relationships with key brokers and strategic distribution partners.
• Represent the organization in major broker engagements, client meetings, and industry forums.
• Influence market strategy and broker trading relationships to enhance the organization’s competitive position.
• Identify growth opportunities within existing and emerging market segments.
• Talent Leadership Lead, coach, and develop underwriting leaders and individual contributors.
• Build a culture of underwriting excellence, accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Drive talent assessment, succession planning, and organizational capability development.
• Attract, develop, and retain top underwriting talent.
• Leadership Partner with Product, Actuarial, Risk Engineering, Claims, Distribution, and Finance to drive business performance.
• Influence underwriting guidelines, product enhancements, operational improvements, and strategic initiatives.
• Support execution of enterprise and business-segment priorities.
• Serve as a key contributor to senior underwriting leadership discussions and business planning activities.

Requirements

• strong leadership skills, development of people, strategic thinking, sustained effective portfolio management and profitable growth, communications skills, decision-making skills, results-oriented, industrious, innovative, problem-solving skills, coaching and mentoring skills, and negotiating skills.
• Qualifications Degree in Business or equivalent.
• A minimum of 10 years progressive underwriting experience expected, including a minimum of 4 years of proven underwriting management experience, preferred.
• CPCU or professional insurance designation preferred.
• Significant experience underwriting large, complex commercial property risks, including shared and layered structures.
• Demonstrated success leading underwriting teams and managing profitable portfolios.
• Deep understanding of property underwriting, catastrophe exposures, risk evaluation, pricing, capacity deployment, and portfolio management.
• Strong broker and distribution management experience.
• Proven analytical ability to evaluate high impact underwriting risks within scope of responsibility.
• Demonstrated expert-level ability to communicate complex analyses and information.
• Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills in dealing with internal and external partners required.
• Travel 25%