Risk & Underwriting Director

Role Overview

• Share market P&L accountability for the local market with MP and market’s Sr DRM/Managing Director
• Build and maintain working knowledge of all lines of business operating within the market.
• Support management process that measures and analyzes results, initiates corrective actions, and minimizes the impact of variances to ensure P&L goals are achieved.
• Study financial trends to identify revenue, cost reduction, return on investment, profit, and improvement opportunities.
• Work with Senior Director of Risk Management / Managing Director to create financial planning.
• Hold matrix and market partners accountable to taking actions and making decisions that ensure targets are achieved.
• Market lead the underwriting function supporting Senior Director of Risk Management / Managing Director.
• Drive pipeline and portfolio management.
• Support developing and executing market strategy.
• Provide useful risk and financial insights to make better decisions about formulating and executing business strategy.
• Integrate buyer group strategies for local market execution.
• Support development and co-own execution of multi-year strategic business plan.
• Strategically leverage matrix partnerships and subject matter expertise to execute market strategies.
• Be a student of the market.
• Have a presence in the community and industry events.
• Provide a broad risk management perspective to all strategic conversations.
• Develop mastery of data insights and new risk levers.
• Develop processes and disciplines around monitoring and assessing risk in decisions.
• Proactively share feedback from the market with home office partners to improve our suite of solutions and services.
• Always start with and end with customer/client needs, when developing consultative, innovative and affordable solutions and contemplating the resultant risk.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experienced people manager with a proven track record of building effective teams and motivating and developing others
• History of consistently delivering business results and achieving production goals
• Ability to work effectively in dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment
• Strong creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
• Ability to create vision and purpose
• Innovative and creative thinker who develops and recommends thoughtful solutions to complex issues and drives toward win-win solutions w/ an execution focus
• Demonstrated track record of leading organizations through business model changes with proven results
• Ability to foster collaboration, value others perspectives and gain support and buy-in for organizational proposals
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Strong emotional intelligence, leadership skills, and executive presence
• Proven ability to function and thrive in a heavily matrixed environment
• Ability to drive consistent processes across multiple locations
• Some travel required (<25%)

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs
• 401(k)
• Company paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
• Paid holidays