Senior Lead Energy Underwriter

Consulture Search; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Consulture Search is seeking aSenior Energy Underwriter to build and manage a profitable GCC energy portfolio. You will own the energy business plan, appetite, and growth roadmap, underwriting across upstream to energy-construction risks, while coordinating risk reviews and governance with leaders across the region.

You will also develop brokers and cedants, promote energy products, and work with Claims and Reinsurance on large losses and treaty terms, ensuring compliance country by country.

Qualifications

• Substantial energy underwriting experience
• GCC-facing portfolio exposure with authority
• Experience across insurer/reinsurer/Lloyd's settings and broker relationships
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Responsibilities

• Own the energy portfolio growth roadmap and appetite.
• Underwrite upstream, midstream, downstream and energy-construction risks.
• Coordinate risk-engineering reviews and translate recommendations into terms or declines.
• Develop brokers, cedants and energy partners across the GCC as primary market target.
• Partner with Claims and Reinsurance on large losses and treaty structure.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and country heads to ensure governance and compliance.

Skills

Energy underwriting

Portfolio analytics

Regulatory awareness

Leadership

Communication

Education

CII / FCII / CPCU or engineering qualification

Job description

About the Role

Build and maintain a profitable, diversified GCC energy portfolio through disciplined participation on major placements, while establishing the underwriting, business development and governance capabilities required for sustainable expansion.

Responsibilities

Energy Portfolio & Strategy

• Own the energy business plan, appetite, target-account map and portfolio growth roadmap.
• Build and maintain a profitable, diversified GCC energy portfolio through disciplined participation on major placements.
• Manage aggregate exposure by country, asset, operator, peril, leader, broker, cedant and reinsurance counterparty.

Technical Underwriting

• Underwrite upstream, midstream, downstream and energy-construction risks within approved appetite.
• Independently assess occupancy, process hazards, loss scenarios, MPL/EML, BI values, deductibles, wordings, claims history and line size.
• Maintain an approved slip-leader framework and document any deviation from leader terms.

Risk Engineering & Governance

• Coordinate risk-engineering reviews and translate recommendations into terms, warranties or declined participation.
• Ensure admitted placement, sanctions, licensing, premium-tax, wording and local-policy requirements are validated country by country.
• Document any deviation from leader terms.

Market Development

• Develop brokers, cedants, energy extraction and production companies, energy contractors and reinsurance partners across the GCC as the primary market target, and selectively beyond.
• Promote existing products to new opportunities.
• Leverage existing networks and relationships to promote the energy offering.

Claims & Reinsurance

• Partner with Claims on large losses.
• Ensure rights under cooperation/control clauses are preserved.
• Partner with Reinsurance on treaty structure, terms and profitability upon renewal.

Collaborative Relationships

• Work closely with the Chief Commercial P&C Officer, Country GMs, Country P&C Heads, Claims leadership and Reinsurance leadership.
• Work with line underwriters, Country GMs, Country P&C Heads, Claims leadership and Reinsurance leadership.
• Maintain relationships with Risk Management, Finance / Performance Management, Compliance, Internal Audit, Legal, Data Governance and regulators, as required through country management.

Education & Qualifications

• CII / FCII / CPCU or engineering qualification.

Other Requirements

Experience

• Substantial specialist energy underwriting experience.
• GCC or GCC-facing portfolio exposure with demonstrable authority.
• Experience across insurer / reinsurer / Lloyd's settings, major-broker relationships and first-hand portfolio building experience.

Technical / Analytical Capabilities

• Underwriting expertise and portfolio analytics.
• Facultative and treaty understanding.
• Claims and engineering literacy.

Leadership & Behaviours

• Technical curiosity, disciplined judgement and commercial resilience.
• Credible communication, conflict management, data orientation and regulatory awareness.
• Proven capability to lead projects, work autonomously, manage priorities and deliver outcomes in a complex, matrixed environment.

Language

• Fluent English, written and spoken.