Executive Underwriting Officer, Casualty

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Reports to Markel Specialty’s Chief Underwriting Officer as head of the Casualty business leading multiple products and teams with responsibility for delivering profitability within the Casualty product line.

This role involves the leadership of a product line team responsible for achieving profit goals through the development of underwriting strategies, growing and leveraging underwriting talent, portfolio management, and delivery of products to partners and customers.

This individual will lead the implementation and maturing of the business strategy and create a long-term vision for the Casualty line of business.

This individual will implement a practical plan to make that vision operational, and develop, lead, and inspire a world-class organization to support it.

In addition to being responsible for the direction and oversight of the line of business client management and business development activities, he / she will advise on relevant issues across the entire organization and create and sustain a culture that attracts, develops and retains critical talent.

This individual will partner with Specialty Leadership to ensure execution of the strategy set for the products within the line of business is achieved.

What you'll be doing :

• Build a high performance culture with product line leaders to develop and drive strategies to achieve underwriting profitability targets
• Monitor performance and facilitate coordination of business plans
• Coordination with Markel Specialty Retail, Wholesale and Alternative Distribution leadership to build national and regional strategies around the Casualty product line.
• Collaboration across the business, such as claims, distribution, loss control, to deliver an enterprise approach to product development and customer service.
• Enhance line of business understanding, depth and expertise across platforms
• Understand current industry trends including emerging issues
• Develop and facilitate the implementation of strategies to manage corporate capacity on accounts
• Provide talent development, create opportunities for advancement, organizational visibility for line of business members
• Build depth in the underwriting organization and leverage talent in the product line management group and divisions
• Align underwriting teams at the line of business level
• Enhance Markel’s ability to understand and respond to competitive pressures, and identify opportunity gaps
• Facilitate thought leader participation in line of business initiatives
• Support the CUO on line of business topics including emerging risks
• Serve as a line of business referral executive to ensure risks are managed within appetite
• Identify, monitor and implement actions for addressing industry trends and emerging risks
• Contribute to reinsurance buying decisions
• Implement policies and guidelines that span the underwriting organization
• Lead long range growth plans for the line of business

What we're looking for :

• Minimum of 20 years underwriting experience with a history of profitable growth
• Broad-based background in the line of business with experience in SME and large accounts; primary, excess, admitted and non-admitted products
• Experience in all distribution channels with a solid industry reputation
• Demonstrated record of product leadership including building teams

Skill Set

• Deep technical knowledge of Casualty lines
• Strong portfolio management capabilities
• Highly effective interpersonal, management, and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and excellent problem solving / decision making abilities
• Works well in a matrix environment providing leadership and teambuilding across the organization
• Ability and desire to embrace technology and data in individual underwriting and portfolio management
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Outlook, Visio, Word, Power Point)

Education

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in related field from an accredited University / College
• Insurance / Reinsurance designations

Who we are :

Markel Group (NYSE MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people We win together We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday We think further

What’s in it for you :

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
• Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

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