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About the Role
As a Senior Programs Underwriter on the Delegated team, you will apply strong technical expertise and a market-facing approach to grow and manage a complex delegated portfolio. You will independently underwrite and oversee programs, support referrals, and deliver profitable new business while representing Markel as a trusted partner in the market. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to innovative specialty products and support Markel’s global delegated strategy within a high-performing, collaborative environment. Success requires a customer-focused, analytical, and agile mindset.
Responsibilities
- Underwrite profitable new and renewal delegated authority business, in accordance with underwriting authority levels, guidelines, and strategy.
- Manage and grow a portfolio of delegated underwriting authority programs, including risk selection, coverage negotiation, pricing adequacy, and referrals.
- Drive new business production by identifying, evaluating, and converting delegated program opportunities with brokers and coverholders.
- Act as a senior referral point within authority, exercising independent underwriting judgement on complex and material risks.
- Review changes to delegated agreements to ensure alignment with underwriting philosophy, governance, and regulatory expectations.
- Participate in coverholder audits, including preparation, discussion of findings, and follow‑up actions.
- Collaborate closely with Actuarial, Claims, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Underwriting Leadership to support well‑governed, commercially sound programs.
- Participate in claims reviews and utilize loss trends and market data to inform underwriting decisions.
- Maintain strong underwriting file documentation standards.
- Build and sustain strong broker and coverholder relationships, representing Markel as a trusted, senior underwriting partner.
- Contribute to underwriting best practices and support the development of less experienced underwriters.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ property and casualty underwriting experience.
- Successfully underwritten large programs with a strong background in Property, and Casualty Lines.
- Professional Lines experience considered an asset.
- Superior relationship management skills proven through established broker relationships.
- Demonstrated track record of generating new business premium.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, comfortable with thinking outside of the box.
- Expertise and depth in policy wordings, forms and applicable coverages.
- Excellent presentation skills, comfortable speaking in front of small and large groups.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as a contributing team member.
- Exceptional time management skills.
- Strong business acumen and capable of representing the organization externally.
Skills
- Property underwriting
- Casualty underwriting
- Professional Lines experience
- Relationship management
- New business development
- Underwriting judgement
- Policy wording expertise
- Presentation skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Time management
- Business acumen
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- Executive
Education Level
- University degree
- CIP designation
- FCIP designation
Salary/Compensations
- 90-134k
Benefits
- Annual bonus potential
- Strong benefits package
- 20 vacation days plus additional floater days per year
- Company RRSP
- Extended health and dental coverage
- Life insurance
- Travel insurance
- Vision care
- Wellness initiatives
- Opportunities to learn new skills
- Career development support
About the Company
- Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
- We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.