AVP, Underwriting

Chubb External; Georgia; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Chubb External invites applications for an AVP, Underwriting to lead Inland Marine underwriting for North America Major Accounts Inland Marine Product Line. The role ensures underwriting excellence, integrity, and execution of strategic objectives across risk selection, pricing, and guidelines.

It emphasizes talent development, performance metrics, and cross-functional collaboration with actuarial, compliance, and operations.

Qualifications

• Ability to assess risk selection criteria and exposure evaluation
• Experience in risk pricing and coverage wordings
• Promotes and supports underwriting integrity and best practices

Responsibilities

• Ensure profitability, growth, and operational efficiency through risk criteria and pricing input
• Collaborate with Actuarial, Compliance, Loss Control and OGC; contribute to data management and system development
• Develop and maintain underwriting guidelines, forms/wordings libraries, best practices and strategies
• Develop, implement and train on workflow procedures for continuous improvement
• Improve Policy Issuance standards, accuracy and timeliness with Operations
• Ensure field underwriting adheres to guidelines and authority levels with proper documentation
• Analyze product portfolio profitability and provide input on product, distribution and geography
• Assist in data collection for underwriting strategy, portfolio management and actuarial analytics
• Support reinsurance placements as needed
• Coordinate system access authority and management
• Provide input on strategic and operational objectives for NA markets (US & Canada)
• Develop talent through day-to-day dialogue and formal training

Skills

Underwriting

Risk assessment

Data analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Workflow development

Job description

The AVP, Underwriting role has the responsibility of ensuring underwriting excellence for the North American Major Accounts Inland Marine Product Line. The role is responsible for providing overall excellence through promoting and supporting the Inland Marine organization through underwriting integrity. This includes contributions to the development and assurances of proper execution on the division’s strategic objectives. The position assists in the development and implementation of operational objectives for underwriting, authority, guidelines, tools, platforms, systems, metrics and product development. The position has accountability for and emphasis on ensuring proper execution, building organizational capability, talent management, and promoting a culture of superior and effective product underwriting.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the achievement of continued profitability, growth, and operational efficiencies of the business unit by providing input on risk selection criteria, exposure evaluation, risk pricing, coverage wordings as well as market appetite and emerging risk/underwriting issues. Communicates with staff and management effectively on both the present and long-term priorities for the business unit and organization.
• Champion opportunities and recommendations to enhance efficiencies and performance through close collaboration with Actuarial, Compliance, Loss Control and OGC, as well as data management including direct involvement of system development.
• Input and assistance in the development and maintenance of underwriting guidelines, forms/wordings libraries, best practices and strategies.
• Development, implementation and training on workflow procedures with focus on continued improvement.
• Work closely with Operations to improve Policy Issuance standards, accuracy and timeliness.
• Ensure field underwriting team is adhering to guidelines and authority levels including appropriate documentation via business reviews and audits.
• Assistance and input on the profitability of the Major Accounts Inland Marine book of business – analyzing product portfolio for opportunities and providing input on product, distribution channel, and geography.
• Participate in data collection in support of underwriting strategy and initiatives, portfolio management and actuarial analytics.
• Support for reinsurance placements as necessary and as requested.
• Coordinate system access authority and management.
• Provide input on the development and implementation of strategic and operational objectives for the North American (US & Canada) markets.
• Development of talent to meet the objectives of the business unit through day-to-day business dialogue and formal training sessions.