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About the Role
As Team Leader for Small Lawyers Professional Liability, you will lead a talented team of underwriters focused on small law firm business. You will drive underwriting excellence, champion operational efficiency, and cultivate a culture where people thrive and portfolios perform. This role offers an opportunity to shape strategy, strengthen key relationships, and make a lasting impact on a dynamic segment.
Responsibilities
- Champion a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across the team.
- Lead meaningful performance conversations, including regular reviews, development discussions, and succession planning.
- Support onboarding and training efforts to set new team members up for success.
- Foster an inclusive environment where every team member feels empowered to make sound, confident underwriting decisions.
- Drive profitable growth and portfolio performance across the Small Lawyers segment with discipline and strategic focus.
- Ensure underwriting decisions align with Swiss Re's guidelines, risk appetite, and profitability objectives.
- Monitor key performance indicators including growth, retention, rate adequacy, new business production, loss ratio, and expense management.
- Review and approve underwriting decisions within delegated authority levels, maintaining rigorous standards.
- Identify emerging trends, loss drivers, and portfolio opportunities, implementing corrective actions where necessary.
- Support pricing discipline and risk selection strategies to protect and grow the portfolio.
- Build and sustain strong relationships with brokers, agents, and key distribution partners.
- Support business development initiatives and enhance Swiss Re's visibility in the market.
- Collaborate with brokers to uncover growth opportunities while maintaining underwriting discipline.
- Drive efficient workflows and consistent underwriting practices across the team.
- Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Claims, Actuarial, and Products to continuously improve processes and customer experience.
- Leverage data, analytics, and reporting tools to sharpen decision-making and team performance.
- Provide market intelligence and competitive insights to senior leadership to inform strategy.
- Participate in product enhancements, underwriting guideline updates, and high-impact strategic projects.
- Help shape the future growth and profitability of the Lawyers Professional Liability portfolio at Swiss Re.
Requirements
- 5+ years of commercial professional liability underwriting experience, preferably within Lawyers Professional Liability or related professional lines.
- Demonstrated leadership experience with a proven track record of managing and developing high-performing teams.
- Proven ability to balance growth objectives with underwriting discipline, with strong portfolio management skills.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with brokers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
Skills
- Leadership
- Talent Development
- Underwriting
- Portfolio Management
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Relationship Management
- Data Analytics
- Strategic Thinking
Location
- New York City, NY
- Chicago, IL
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- Chicago, IL: $160,000 - $240,000
- NYC, NY: $168,000 - $252,000
Benefits
- Total compensation approach considering base pay, short- and long-term incentives, and benefits offered.
About the Company
- Swiss Re is a leading provider of reinsurance, insurance, and insurance-based risk transfer.
- Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group, offering innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations.
- The company anticipates and manages risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
- Swiss Re Corporate Solutions operates from approximately 50 locations worldwide.
- The company helps clients mitigate risk exposure and provides industry-leading claims service.
- Success depends on building an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.
- Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics.
- An inclusive and flexible environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
Equal Opportunity
- Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer.
- Practices recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.
- Reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request during the recruitment process.