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About the Role
Lead the Middle Market underwriting team focusing on property and casualty package for mid-sized businesses across Canada. Deliver tailored P&C solutions, strengthen broker relationships, and support profitable growth by combining technical underwriting judgment, market insight, and portfolio leadership. Guide complex underwriting decisions and provide responsive, coordinated service in partnership with various internal departments.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the Americas Middle Market P&C operating plan and shape the strategy for Middle Market across Canada.
- Influence the market and portfolio approach for middle market package using external trends, claims insights, and emerging-risk analysis.
- Provide authoritative advice to senior leaders on complex underwriting, portfolio, and market matters.
- Provide technical oversight of new and renewal business and act as a senior escalation point for complex accounts, referrals, coverage questions, and portfolio issues.
- Deploy underwriting capacity, authority, talent, and resources in line with risk appetite, business objectives, and annual plans.
- Create a high-performing and inclusive environment through clear accountability, effective delegation, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and development of capability.
- Establish and reinforce underwriting governance, controls, and performance standards.
- Monitor team and portfolio performance against key performance indicators and address execution gaps.
- Coordinate resources across Canada to deliver consistent and responsive broker and client service.
Requirements
- Senior people leader with strategic influence, commercial judgment, and deep technical underwriting expertise across property & casualty.
- Holds self and the team accountable for ambitious results.
- Delegates effectively and uses resources strategically.
- Enables teams to work together toward common goals.
- Guides teams toward a clear future direction grounded in market understanding, data, and foresight.
- Adjusts course as business and customer insights evolve.
- Uses appropriate techniques, organizational insight, and professional networks to shape decisions, build alignment, and drive change.
- Applies business knowledge and strategic thinking to strengthen broker engagement, drive profitable revenue, and achieve sustainable growth objectives.
- Builds long-term client and broker partnerships.
- Evaluates opportunities for profitable growth and ensures decisions align with business objectives, future risk, and long-term value.
- Uses relevant data effectively to inform priorities, underwriting decisions, portfolio actions, and performance improvement.
- Analyzes complex property & casualty risks, evaluates pricing and policy terms, and provides strategic direction for new and renewal underwriting decisions.
- Strategically manages and optimizes the portfolio across market cycles to achieve company objectives, control risk, and maximize sustainable profitability.
- Evaluates insurance contracts and interprets terms, conditions, restrictions, and exclusions to align coverage with underwriting guidelines, risk appetite, and client needs.
Skills
- Property and Casualty Underwriting
- Portfolio Management
- Team Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Broker Relationship Management
- Risk Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Commercial Acumen
- Sales Acumen
- Contract Analysis
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- CAD 138,500-207,700
Benefits
- Enterprising retirement savings plan
- Health and wellness programs
- 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 for mid-sized companies, multinationals, and individuals.
- We combine a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace.
- Our innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions partners with those who move the world forward.
- Sustainability is integral to our business strategy, focusing on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding ESG considerations.
- AXA Hearts in Action programs support volunteering and charitable giving.
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.
- We create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.
- AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.