AVP, Marine Underwriting

Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.; Texas; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is seeking an Assistant Vice President for Marine Underwriting in Dallas or Houston, TX. This hybrid, full-time role leads underwriting strategy, governance, and performance for the Marine Business Unit, reporting to the President of Marine.

The AVP will guide risk selection, pricing tools, and product innovations while partnering with leaders across claims, finance, reinsurance, compliance, and operations to maintain underwriting discipline and profitability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of inland marine underwriting experience.
• 3+ years of leadership experience in a matrixed organization.
• Strong marine product and underwriting skills with industry insight.
• Excellent communication and decisive decision-making.
• Strategic thinker with good judgment and risk insight.
• Collaborative team player with urgency and results orientation.
• Ability to travel as needed (by car or plane).

Responsibilities

• Develop marine strategy aligned with the BI plan.
• Manage underwriting performance through guidelines, referrals, and audits.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Marine leaders and corporate teams.
• Develop risk selection and pricing tools to improve profitability.
• Oversee marine coverages and governance.
• Mentor and guide the home office team to high performance.
• Train field teams on products and tools for effective execution.
• Prepare product overviews for leadership and industry developments.
• Collaborate with claims, finance, reinsurance, compliance, legal, actuary, product development, operations, underwriting, and marketing.

Skills

Underwriting

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Risk assessment

Collaboration

Industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Our Marine Underwriting team is seeking an Assistant Vice President to join our team in the Dallas or Houston, TX locations. This is a full-time, exempt role. This is a hybrid opportunity.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The AVP of Marine Underwriting reports directly to the President of Marine, with responsibility for driving underwriting quality, strategic underwriting direction and underwriting oversight for the Marine Business Unit. The incumbent demonstrates a high level of underwriting expertise partnering with leaders, underwriters, and corporate underwriting resources to ensure a consistent level of underwriting discipline, effective organizational management, and communication in driving the business.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Partner with Marine Leadership to develop a Marine strategy that aligns with the overall Business Insurance strategic plan
• Manage the overall Underwriting performance through establishment of underwriting guidelines, underwriting referrals and underwriting audits.
• Partner closely with Marine leaders to understand performance within each class of marine business and influence actions needed to optimize results
• Develop risk selection and pricing tools that streamline the underwriting process and improve profitability
• Provides state of the art product offerings to our marine customers ensuring competitiveness and product innovation, including customized products for our program business
• Provide oversight and governance on all marine coverages
• Provide the leadership, mentoring, and guidance necessary to build and sustain a high performing workforce in managing the home office team
• Provide training on products and line of business tools to the field/business units to ensure effective execution
• Prepare regular product overviews to Marine Leadership, Business Insurance and Corporate leadership on the performance of the lines as well as external industry developments
• Partner with corporate departments of claims, finance, reinsurance, compliance, legal, actuary, product development, operations, underwriting, and marketing to leverage capabilities and ensure marine compliance with corporate initiatives

WHAT YOU NEED TO APPLY:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of inland marine underwriting experience
• 3+ years of leadership experience, with a demonstrated track record in managing, coaching, and motivating staff across a highly matrixed organization
• A proven leader with strategic and creative marine product and underwriting skills and deep insight into the insurance industry and competition
• Exceptional communication skills and decisive decision-making skills
• Strategic and insightful in their thinking, with good judgment and an intuitive sense of where to look for risks and opportunities both within the company and in the broader industry
• Able to trade-off the risks and rewards in a particular situation while also considering the big picture of company-wide impact, industry trends, and strategic implications
• A collaborative, team player with strong results orientation and sense of urgency
• Ability to travel as needed (by car or plane)