Regional Commercial Underwriting Manager

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada The Benefact Group Full time

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Duration**:Permanent

**Location**:Toronto

**About the role***:
We are seeking a focused and experienced Regional Commercial Underwriting Manager to join our Central Region team. As a key leader within our organization, you will leverage your extensive underwriting background to coach, mentor and guide our underwriting teams, ensuring they effectively implement our established underwriting guidelines, best practices, and policy wordings. This is a compelling opportunity to put your stamp on an organization that funnels all available profits back into the community, making a meaningful difference every day.

**Key responsibilities**
***:

- Directly coach and mentor underwriting teams, facilitating the consistent implementation of Ecclesiastical's underwriting guidelines, policies, and best practices.
- Oversee underwriting processes and conduct audits, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Forge robust relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders, continually reinforcing our commitment to excellent customer service.
- Drive underwriting excellence within your team by planning, prioritizing, and managing tasks to meet agreed objectives and SLAs.
- Adhere to and operate within the Ecclesiastical framework, proactively identifying and escalating any business risks.
- Address any identified complaints in accordance with company policy.
- Dedicate time to further enhance personal technical knowledge and niche expertise through networking and engagement with industry resources.

**Knowledge, skills and experience**
***:

- University degree or equivalent insurance experience.
- Insurance-related certifications such as CIP or FCIP, and preferably additional certifications like CRM.
- 10 to 12 years' experience in underwriting, with a significant portion of that in commercial underwriting, including previous leadership or mentorship roles.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Proficiency in underwriting tools, systems, and data analysis techniques for risk assessment and to determine appropriate coverage and pricing.
- Thorough understanding of underwriting guidelines, policy wordings, pricing tools, and the regional insurance market.
- Ability to solve complex underwriting scenarios and adapt to changing business needs and market dynamics.
- Adhere to high ethical standards, industry regulations and guidelines, with a capacity to handle sensitive information discretely.

**What we offer**
***:

- A market competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Flexible working program
- Annual transportation subsidy to assist with commuting costs
- Defined contribution pension plan - up to 8% with no employee matching required and voluntary RRSP and TFSA programs
- Generous annual bonus program for all permanent full-time staff
- Minimum of 3 weeks vacation plus paid wellness, personal, volunteer and sick days
- Comprehensive employee group benefits, including health and dental coverage, income protection plans, life insurance, ADD insurance and an annual Health Care Spending Account
- Up to $200 for an annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
- Family and Employee Assistance Program, a discount and perks program as well as an annual fitness reimbursement
- Family friendly benefits including maternity/parental top-up payments
- Support towards professional designations
- Personal development subsidy covering courses of personal interests or hobbies
- Wellness perks such as daily fresh fruit, snacks and ice-cream days in the summer
- Engagement activities including regular lunch and learns, after-work get togethers and Lunch with Leaders program to name a few
- A room with a view.enjoy lunch breaks and fun activities in our E-Bistro

**About us**:
**Benefact Group** is a unique international financial services group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and currently the 3rd largest corporate donor in the country, having given away over £187 million since 2016. We have an ambitious plan to become the number one corporate donor with strategic objectives in place to double the groups size over the next five years.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people offer career opportunities and personal development through a fantastic learning and career framework. Luckily for us, the nature of who we are - our giving ethos, our 135 year history and the diversity of what we do - has built a culture of kindness, of great ambition, of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

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