Hybrid Chief Underwriting Officer, Casualty Primary & Excess

at The Hartford

• Job title: Chief Underwriting Officer, Casualty Primary & Excess
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $236,000 - $354,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Morristown, United States

About the role

• Chief Underwriting Officer responsible for leading Excess and Primary Casualty underwriting. Driving policies, managing business facets, and collaborating with P&L owners in a key strategic role.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Head of Casualty Wholesale, the Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), Casualty will operate in a key senior leadership role holding the highest-level underwriting authority for Excess and Primary Casualty Wholesale.
• The CUO will directly manage multiple facets of the Excess and Primary line business, as well as provide leadership for various projects of critical strategic importance, including oversight for rating and pricing strategy, referral underwriting authority, establishment of underwriting guidelines, loss control, quality and training.
• This role has direct accountability for driving underwriting policy and performance, underwriting quality, appetite guidance and overall underwriting excellence for all Casualty products.
• The CUO works in partnership with the P&L owners to ensure that results are achieved consistent with the objectives outlined in the segment operating plans and line of business strategies.
• Further it will maintain strong cross-functional partnership with many key areas including P&L owners, Claims, Actuarial, Treaty, Human Resources, Operations and Finance.
• Moreover, the external distribution and client base is critical in this position, and he/she will help drive the business for the unit.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other insurance designation preferred
• Fifteen years of relevant underwriting experience
• Broad spectrum of product experience in the E&S and Primary space
• Proven record of success developing and implementing strategies for profitable growth
• Experience with successful P&L ownership; sound financial acumen
• Knowledge and experience with setting and driving an operating plan
• Team player with outstanding inter-personal, negotiation skills and organizational skills.
• Excellent stakeholder/relationship management skills
• Able to role model behaviors and ethics
• Articulates expectations to connect all employees to the overall strategy.
• Effectively communicates big picture and clear plan to execute
• Applies sound judgment, relevant information and good instincts to make, support and implement high quality, timely decisions.

Benefits

• Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
• Long-term incentives
• On-the-spot recognition