Director of Underwriting Strategy

2 dagen geleden

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Hiscox Voltijd
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director of Technical Underwriting to join our team in Amsterdam or Brussels. As a key member of our Underwriting Division, you will be responsible for translating our strategic direction into actionable plans that support our local teams in providing flexible and profitable underwriting solutions to our broker partners.

Key Responsibilities
  • Monitor and provide thought leadership on trends, emerging issues, and exposures.
  • Develop and execute effective strategies that demonstrate an understanding of how our products drive value for our customers and fit within their markets.
  • Develop plans to drive profit, identify growth opportunities (product, industry, or segment), and identify/address threats to our business.
  • Act as a strategic partner to the MD and Commercial Directors and manage the interaction with the European Underwriting Team.
  • Lead product development (in close collaboration with other departments) in order to create a competitive and profitable product suite in line with customer needs and covering multiple distribution channels.
  • Build and maintain broker relationships, and monitor product results to develop and execute ideas for improving productivity, profitability, and pricing practices.
  • Contribute to product promotion and webinars across the different distribution channels.
  • Act as the referral point for larger, more complex risks.
  • Manage, attract, and retain a team of technical underwriters/product heads that can deliver high-quality performance.
  • Ensure compliance with all Underwriting controls and regulatory needs.
Requirements
  • Specialist knowledge of insurance products and services to meet complex client needs.
  • In-depth experience in private and commercial lines of business.
  • Advanced knowledge of portfolio management, underwriting, product underwriting, product development, risk selection, and pricing experience.
  • Strong knowledge of performance analytics, profit, and cost drivers, technology enablers, and decision support tools.
  • Extensive knowledge of underwriting data and historical performance of sectors.
  • Understanding of the market, brokers, and competition and the effects of external influences and how these should shape a portfolio.
  • Strong people management experience, including development of talent, multi-level leadership skills.
  • Strong influencing, collaboration, conflict resolution, and presentation skills.
  • Use of data to assess and make underwriting decisions, both case by case and portfolio.
  • Fluent in English and Dutch and/or French.

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