VP – Cyber and Professional Liability Lead

VP – Cyber and Professional Liability Lead

Requirements

• University Degree required; Finance or Business preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of previous underwriting/broker experience in relevant product areas.
• Previous leadership experience required.

Responsibilities

• Build a best-in-class underwriting team including recruitment, retention, development, and performance management.
• Set strategy, communicate clear objectives and hold individuals accountable for achieving results in a high-performance culture.
• Coach and support development opportunities to enhance staff effectiveness.
• Proven team leadership and people management skills, including the ability to motivate staff and inspire a sense of purpose around successfully achieving organizational objectives.
• Visible and credible business partner within Professional Liability across the organization with key relationships with North American colleagues.
• Proven negotiation skills gained through established broker/client or broker/underwriter relationships.
• Proven ability to grow a profitable and diversified book of business.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and grow broker/producer relationships, maintain a high level of visibility and build strong distribution.
• Develops market-specific strategies and customized approaches based on market conditions, pricing and broker needs.
• Adapts to multiple demands and shifting priorities.
• Demonstrates analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills for quick, sound decisions.
• Leads business development and guides new product implementation.
• Proven ability to draft language efficiently and effectively for new products, endorsements, and applications.
• Engages in product development as a member of internal drafting teams in collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Provides the Canadian perspective to global product managers to assist them in understanding the nuances of our market, legal system and loss experience.
• Develops sound underwriting strategy and holds responsibly for all aspects of execution.
• Technical underwriting / referral resource for team.
• Proficient in a broad array of Professional Liability and Financial Lines products, technologies, and processes.
• P&L Accountability (production, weekly forecasting, monthly/quarterly financial reporting, planning, expense management).
• Ability to lead and implement change management as required to be responsive to the market and profitability needs.
• Reports key risk and performance details to Reinsurance Markets, Ceded Re, Senior Leadership and Canadian Board of Directors, as required.
• Collaborates with key internal stakeholders to support lines of business (Executive, Claims, Actuary, General Counsel, Compliance, Marketing, Finance, Operations, IT, Ceded Re).
• Responsibility for both self-audit and corporate underwriting audit in business tower.
• Business owner representative for IT initiatives, systems and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.