About the Role
This high-impact leadership role is responsible for driving core underwriting activities and production processes across a designated U.S. region through a team of 8 to 12 matrixed new business underwriters. The role requires strong underwriting expertise, relationship-building skills, and the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels. Close collaboration with Operations is critical for effective underwriting execution and workflow management. The position also supports regional hiring efforts and plays a significant role in training, development, and talent management.
Responsibilities
- Drive new business production across multiple branches and distribution sources.
- Approve deals within assigned authority limits, ensuring timely and accurate decision-making.
- Manage underwriter productivity, including coaching and mentoring on desk management skills for both generalist and specialty underwriters.
- Analyze production, profitability, business mix, and underwriter productivity across industries, lines, and branches, and develop actions to improve results.
- Collaborate with CI Field Underwriting and Distribution partners to develop and implement local market tactics.
- Partner with Distribution on sales execution, agency management, and agency communications.
- Ensure adherence to audit and compliance requirements, including self-audits for matrixed underwriters.
- Contribute to talent management for matrixed staff, including performance assessments and compensation planning.
- Build and maintain strong relationships at all levels, both internal and external.
- Travel as needed.
Requirements
- Strong underwriting expertise
- Relationship-building skills
- Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to lead an effective new business revenue generation process
Skills
- Underwriting
- Relationship Building
- Influencing
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Analysis
- Sales Execution
- Agency Management
- Compliance
- Talent Management
- Communication
Location
- U.S. region
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Leadership
About the Company
- Chubb is a world leader in insurance with operations in 54 countries.
- Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients.
- The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.
Equal Opportunity
- Chubb is committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it.
- Employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment are provided without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which employees are hired, assigned, promoted, compensated, developed, and retained.
- Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.
