Senior Commercial Lines Leader - Growth & Strategy

Top Notch Consultancy

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 260,000 - 420,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Top Notch Consultancy is seeking a Senior Manager Commercial Lines for a leading Insurance company to oversee strategy and client engagements.

You will manage market-facing underwriters, identify growth opportunities with key distributors, and negotiate terms to close deals. The role also includes mentoring staff, analyzing market trends, pricing, and ensuring profitability and compliant growth across portfolios.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or a related field; MBA preferred.
Proven track in commercial lines insurance, with underwriting/product management emphasis.
Strong leadership and management capabilities with a history of leading high-performing teams.
Excellent analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

Manage market facing underwriters who proactively seek renewal and new account opportunities.
Identify growth opportunities with key distributors for areas of responsibility.
Oversee negotiations of Terms & Conditions and closes deals.
Mentor staff to develop broker and client networks as related to industries underwritten by Business Unit.
Identify market trends and coverage's exposures that may impact business results.
Work with actuarial to insure a proper rate / price structure.
Manage relationships with producers by conducting line of business, book of business, class, and segment analysis to ensure profitability and growth.
Market company products and services through agency plant and brokerage community.
Support development and maintenance of agent/broker relationships to achieve profitable growth, market share, product mix, new business, and account retention.
Improve customer relations, profitability, and productivity by continually analyzing branch office´s new business, loss ratio, expense ratio, loss frequency, agency distribution, product mix to determine its impact on other business units.
Translate business objectives into clearly defined business cases, costs, or schedules, determining technical pricing to meet the aims of the underwriting business plan.
Lead the implementation of projects for a function or business area to deliver defined objectives with allocated resources and in timescales typically of less than one year.
Monitor and oversee portfolio exposure, taking appropriate action to ensure no limits have been breached and full compliance with relevant regulations.
Use insights from customers, distributors, and own technical expertise to develop new or enhanced propositions that meet customer needs.