Senior Commercial Property Underwriting Expert

DGA Careers Inc.; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

DGA Careers has partnered with a leading Canadian insurer to recruit a Senior Technical Specialist focused on commercial property underwriting. You will provide senior technical underwriting expertise, mentor underwriters, and influence product development and underwriting guidelines.

You will review referrals, support strategy, and collaborate with senior leadership to ensure disciplined, profitable decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of commercial insurance experience.
• Strong commercial property underwriting knowledge and technical judgment.
• Ability to assess complex underwriting issues and make well-supported decisions.
• Experience developing, refining, or implementing underwriting guidelines, processes, or best practices.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capability, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Strong business acumen, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing within a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical underwriting resource and mentor to underwriting team members.
• Review and respond to underwriting referrals on new and renewal business.
• Provide technical guidance on complex commercial risks, with a focus on commercial property.
• Identify internal and external underwriting trends and provide recommendations aligned with business objectives.
• Provide market intelligence, technical commentary, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Contribute to product development initiatives, including underwriting guidelines, templates, and supporting materials.
• Develop, enhance, and implement technical underwriting guidelines and best-practice procedures.
• Help promote consistent, disciplined, and profitable underwriting decisions.
• Provide technical input on claims situations where underwriting intent, policy wording, or coverage expertise is required.
• Develop and deliver technical training for underwriting teams and external broker partners.
• Provide one-on-one mentorship and support to help strengthen technical underwriting capabilities.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with broker and market partners.
• Participate in industry meetings, conventions, and other functions as required.
• Contribute to strategic underwriting projects and broader business initiatives.
• Support evolving product, process, and technology initiatives as required.

Skills

Commercial underwriting

Property underwriting

Mentoring

Underwriting guidelines

Strategic underwriting

Industry knowledge

Education

CAIB, CIP, CRM, FCIP (assets)

Job description

DGA Careers has partnered with a leading Canadian insurer to recruit a Senior Technical Specialist focused on commercial property underwriting. You will provide senior technical underwriting expertise, mentor underwriters, and influence product development and underwriting guidelines.

You will review referrals, support strategy, and collaborate with senior leadership to ensure disciplined, profitable decisions.