Senior Vice President Underwriting

2 months ago

Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada Markel Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Senior Vice President Underwriting to join our team at Markel. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for developing and executing the underwriting strategy for our Canadian division, ensuring profitable underwriting results and driving growth.

Key Responsibilities
  • Underwriting Performance:
    • Manage the portfolio to achieve business and profitability goals, ensuring all product lines achieve their planned goals and leading optimization or rehabilitation plans to completion.
    • Address social, economic, and environmental factors that impact the book, setting underwriting standards for Markel Canada and providing clear guidance for all distribution channels.
    • Utilize pricing capability and resources to drive insight, performance, and better outcomes, with direct P&L responsibility for the Delegated portfolio, which is 15% of the divisional GWP.
    • Ensure the delivery of Portfolio Performance and Combined Ratio reviews, serving as the highest referral point for underwriting risks in Canada and sponsoring referrals to the wider Markel business units.
  • Enterprise Leadership:
    • Develop and communicate divisional underwriting strategy, including risk appetite, limit deployment, aggregation, pricing, exposure change/inflation, key terms and conditions, and their translation into activities, to support Canadian plan and growth goals.
    • Monitor the insurance marketplace and identify underwriting opportunities, threats, and emerging risks, delivering strong underwriting guidance to the Canadian leadership team and ensuring Markel underwriting principles lie at the heart of decision making.
    • Influence the product head, pricing, and underwriting oversight, improving effectiveness and efficiency of the team as the business continues to grow, developing and improving underwriting capabilities, and leading from the front.
    • Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, reinforcing the business's competitive edge within the region.
  • Product Development:
    • Manage and coordinate product development/material change in risk process, coordinating the research, development, and delivery of new initiatives, including new products to support the growth trajectory of the division.
    • Manage technical product teams.
  • Governance and Compliance:
    • Maintain correct levels of governance and underwriting oversight, working with the separate compliance function, acting as the Risk Officer for the Canadian division.
    • Ensure products and services are fair and meet customer/broker needs, ensuring DA processes and procedures are appropriate in line with international standards, supervision and oversight of cover holders, and underwriting guides in place and relevant.
    • Awareness of changes in legislation and regulation, assessing their impact and responding accordingly.
    Requirements
    • Deep understanding of the Canadian insurance market dynamics, trends, and regulatory landscape.
    • Proven track record of successful leadership and the ability to navigate complex, matrixed environments.
    • Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic vision and direction of the book, proven track record of driving book growth.
    • Exhibit a mindset that considers the business holistically and is willing to step into wider parts of the business when required.
    • Strong reputation in the Canadian market with established long-term partnerships with senior c-suite brokers, ability to challenge broker thinking and shape narrative in the market.
    • Deep underwriting exposure spanning multiple product lines.
    • Unwavering commitment to upholding the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and adherence to a sound corporate environment.
    • Ability to recruit, develop, and retain top talent within the region, fostering a high-performance culture and a robust talent pipeline.
    • Ability to travel within Canada and occasionally to the US and UK.

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