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About the Role

As a Home Office Leader in E&S Casualty, you will be responsible for the overall performance and management of the E&S Casualty portfolio. This role will work closely with supporting business functions to maintain a profitable portfolio while keeping a balanced focus on production. You will report to the Head of E&S Casualty and work closely with the Head of E&S Product and the rest of E&S Leadership.

Responsibilities

Primarily responsible for underwriting the unit’s referrals, and the most complex new and renewal business within assigned remit.
Drive profitable premium and rate goals, working with actuarial and claims and successfully delivering results consistent with financial plan.
Work closely with brokers and agents to understand the specific needs of their clients and to ensure that the insurance policies offered are tailored to meet those needs.
Exercise discretion and self-supported judgment in the analysis and evaluation of risk.
Lead and participate in roundtable discussions on risk assessment.
Maintain expertise with the products, services, priorities and target markets to more effectively enable clients to uncover hidden risks.
Represent AXA XL at key industry events and conferences alongside broker partners, insureds, and potential prospects.
Conduct and take leadership roles in client and broker meetings to educate on evolving risk.
Maintain compliance with all internal and external underwriting guidelines and legal requirements.
Drive the overall portfolio management of the E&S Casualty book of business, including managing our aggregate limit across the underwriting book, understanding loss considerations, and helping the organization achieve its financial and operational goals on an annual basis.
Work closely with the E&S Casualty unit as a referral manager, with a specific focus on complex risks that require additional support.
Lead profitability reviews and manage the feedback loop process in collaboration with underwriting, actuarial, claims, legal, finance, and other relevant teams.
Manage field underwriting authority and referral triggers to ensure the appropriate checks and balances are in place to enable profitable growth.
Maintain a high level of authority for individual risk decisions and referrals.
Create and maintain class specific guidelines with up to date industry knowledge and claim trends.
Partner with our E&S Product team to evaluate and continuously evolve our guidelines and procedures.
Help develop talent across the E&S Casualty team through technical training, mentoring, and coaching interactions.
Promote the sharing of knowledge regarding relevant global and regional trends, including claims trends.
Identify further opportunities for training and upskilling the E&S Casualty Underwriters.
Upskill Junior Underwriters on how to properly underwrite and structure a deal.
Own the E&S Casualty underwriting guidelines and best practices in alignment with E&S leadership.
Provide extensive product knowledge and understanding to effectively liaise with partners in other functional areas, including Risk Control, Claims, Legal, Regulatory & Compliance, and Reinsurance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience.
Extensive experience in E&S Casualty underwriting and robust understanding of insurance principles and regulations.
Outstanding existing marketing relationships with experience in production underwriting role.
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain outstanding insured and broker contacts.
Possess in-depth underwriting expertise across general classes and is able to manage high volume portfolio.
Demonstrated ability to train, mentor and develop junior underwriters.
Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to perform accurate mathematical calculations.
Outstanding collaborative skills in a fast-paced team-centric environment.
Excellent interpersonal, presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
The ability to demonstrate critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills.
Outstanding Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration and presentation skills.
The ability to travel a minimum of 20% of the time is anticipated.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Skills

E&S Casualty underwriting
Insurance principles and regulations
Marketing relationships
Production underwriting
Underwriting expertise
Portfolio management
Training
Mentoring
Development
Organizational skills
Time management
Mathematical calculations
Collaboration
Interpersonal skills
Presentation skills
Written communication
Verbal communication
Critical thinking
Decision making
Problem-solving

Location

Home Office

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Leader
Senior

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree

Salary/Compensations

USD 132,200 – 257,100

Benefits

Competitive retirement savings plan
Health and wellness programs
Many other benefits
Wide range of learning opportunities for professional development
Flexible Working Arrangements
Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits

About the Company

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks.
We reinvent re/insurance for mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals.
We combine a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
AXA XL E&S is poised for growth in the dynamic world of Excess and Surplus lines.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative team that has been unlocking the future since 1978, creating teams that excel at innovation, expanding geographically, building new products, and serving our wholesale partners with excellence.

Equal Opportunity

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success.
That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.
It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.
Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.