Vice President - Specialty Casualty

The Opportunity: Join our Specialty Casualty Team to provide strategic direction for underwriting portfolios in the Northeast region, ensuring growth and profitability for Retail Excess Casualty. This role involves managing a team of underwriters, writing guidelines, underwriting complex new businesses, and offering specialist advice. Additionally, the role is responsible for building and maintaining broker relationships, applying technical expertise, contributing to business results, and staying informed about industry standards and new product introductions. This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly formed team with exceptional reputations in the industry and to influence the buildout of Specialty Casualty.

• Location: New York City (55 Water Street, NY)

• Work Arrangement: This role is hybrid, where you will be expected to be in the office 2-3 days per week.

• The salary range for this role is between $225,000-$338,000.

Your New Role:

• Underwrite complex insurance risks following the business plan and personal authority to meet business objectives.

• Build and develop retail broker relationships in the Northeastern region through visibility, superior service, and product expertise.

• Demonstrate disciplined underwriting through risk selection, exposure evaluation, and pricing.

• Apply understanding of industry trends, loss trends, and market dynamics to underwriting.

• Negotiate pricing, terms & conditions, and deal structure with brokers.

• Maintain files with detailed documentation supporting all underwriting decisions and compliance with guidelines.

• Operate with broad appetite and high levels of authority using pricing tools, underwriting resources, and team collaboration.

• Maintain knowledge base around full spectrum of products and provide input on the introduction of potential new products.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• 10+ years relevant experience

Preferred Competencies/skills:

• Significant underwriting experience.

• Established customer and broker relationships

• Existing casualty retail broker relationships in the Northeastern region

• Proven ability to create and maintain relationships internally and externally

• Deep knowledge of casualty coverages/forms

• Ability to quickly evaluate and prioritize large volume of submissions efficiently and consistently

• Working knowledge of market competition, insurance principles, trends, best practices

• Ability to collaborate with people at different levels within the global organization to accomplish a common goal

• Understand the needs and goals of a customer and actively look for ways to meet them

• Effectively and efficiently present logic, reasoning, and analysis to others

• Ability to thrive in dynamic environment through resourcefulness, flexibility, and leadership

• Effectively communicate with all internal and external stakeholders

Compensation Package: The salary range for this role is provided above. This is the national range for location(s) listed. The salary offer will be decided based on the role's complexity, its location, and the candidate's professional background, including their education and experience. Beyond the base salary, regular full-time and part-time employees will also be eligible for QBE's annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance.We encourage all candidates to apply, even if their salary expectations fall outside of this range, as we are committed to finding the right fit for our team.

QBE Benefits: We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to:

• Hybrid Working - a mix of working from home and in the office

• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis

• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%

• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education

• Employee Network and Community - QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community

To learn more, click here: Benefits | QBE US.

Why QBE? What if you could have a positive impact - at work and in the world?

At QBE, we're enabling a more resilient future - for our customers, communities, environment, and for our people. We're building momentum to achieve something significant and know our people are at the center of our success.

Our industry offers interesting and varied careers where you can help people to protect what matters most. As part of the QBE team, you'll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. And our international scale means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact.

Join us now, so you can be part of our success - and we can be part of yours!

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