Director of Retail Commercial Casualty Underwriting

Shepherd; Fort Worth (TX); Vor Ort; USD 250.000 - 350.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Premium Healthcare

Family benefits

Unlimited PTO

Daily meals

Office network

Professional development

401(k) Plan

Dog-friendly office

Zusammenfassung

Shepherd is building a Retail Commercial Casualty vertical and seeks a Director to pioneer the underwriting strategy and go-to-market plan. You will lead a team of underwriters, shape risk appetite, and partner with product, engineering, and data to deliver scalable processes.

Based in one of our major offices (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Dallas–Fort Worth), you will travel ~25% and own premium, profit, and loss metrics for the vertical.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of commercial casualty underwriting, with deep expertise in retail middle market and large accounts across classes such as real estate, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, and technology.
• A proven record of profitable growth: originating new business, quoting, binding, and building a casualty book while managing to loss‑ratio and combined‑ratio targets.
• Strong technical command of risk selection, exposure and loss analysis, loss development and trends, pricing, and coverage across Commercial General Liability, Commercial Auto, Workers’ Compensation and Excess Casualty.
• Experience structuring both primary and excess casualty programs, including guaranteed‑cost and loss‑sensitive programs such as large deductibles and self‑insured retentions.

Aufgaben

• Define the strategy for retail commercial casualty, including target classes, lines of business, limits, attachment points, geographies, appetite, and growth and loss‑ratio targets.
• Support the development of underwriting guidelines, authority framework, referral rules, and rating approach.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data to design the submission‑to‑bind workflow, pricing tools, and exposure and loss‑trend views.
• Underwrite new and renewal primary and excess casualty within your authority.
• Own premium, profit, loss‑ratio, retention, and expense results for the vertical.
• Use your retail broker relationships to drive submission flow in the first year, and serve as Shepherd’s senior casualty voice with brokers, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Hire, coach, and grow a team of casualty underwriters and support staff as the book scales.
• Work with Corporate Underwriting to help set letters of authority, run underwriting audits, and coach from the results.
• Work with Claims, Actuarial, Customer Experience and Finance so the business is underwritten, serviced, and reported well.

Kenntnisse

Deep casualty underwriting

Retail broker relationships

Leadership experience

Underwriting strategy

Risk transfer judgment

Portfolio management

Executive presence

Travel 25%

Business growth

Bachelor’s degree

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Jobbeschreibung

Shepherd is building a Retail Commercial Casualty vertical and seeks a Director to pioneer the underwriting strategy and go-to-market plan. You will lead a team of underwriters, shape risk appetite, and partner with product, engineering, and data to deliver scalable processes.

Based in one of our major offices (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Dallas–Fort Worth), you will travel ~25% and own premium, profit, and loss metrics for the vertical.