Regional Underwriting Manager – Middle Market Retail Property & Casualty

Starr Insurance Companies; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Starr Insurance Companies in Chicago seeks a Regional Underwriting Manager to lead its Middle Market underwriting strategy across the Midwest. You will drive profitable growth, set performance goals, and build a high‑performing team of underwriters, while strengthening broker partnerships.

This role blends deep technical underwriting leadership with external relationship building, requiring disciplined risk selection, pricing judgment, and a proactive market presence to expand Starr’s market

Formación

• Deep knowledge of Middle Market Retail P&C underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management.
• Established Chicago and Midwest broker relationships and credibility in the marketplace.
• Proven ability to drive profitable growth while maintaining underwriting discipline.
• Leadership track record developing underwriters and building high-performing teams.
• Ability to balance underwriting judgement, analytics, and market opportunity in making decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across functions and levels.
• Outward-facing, entrepreneurial mindset to represent Starr in the marketplace.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and delivering a strong broker and client experience.

Responsabilidades

• Drive profitable growth for Starr’s Midwest region through disciplined underwriting, portfolio management, and strong execution against business objectives.
• Develop and execute regional underwriting strategies, establishing clear production, profitability, retention, and portfolio goals.
• Build and deepen broker relationships across the Midwest market, expanding Starr’s presence and profitable new/renewal business.
• Lead underwriting excellence through risk selection, pricing discipline, portfolio management, and data-driven decision-making.
• Lead, coach, and develop the underwriting team, creating a collaborative, accountable, high-performance culture.
• Partner across Starr with underwriting, distribution, risk control, claims, operations and other stakeholders to deliver a differentiated broker and client experience.
• Monitor market conditions and emerging trends and translate them into actionable underwriting and growth strategies.
• Maintain strong underwriting governance, ensuring adherence to Starr’s underwriting authorities, guidelines, compliance, and regulatory standards.
• Represent Starr in the Midwest marketplace, strengthening visibility and reputation with brokers, clients, and industry partners.

Conocimientos

Middle Market Retail P&C underwriting

Broker relationships – Chicago/Midwest

Profitability growth with underwriting

Leadership – develop underwriters

Underwriting judgement vs analytics

Communication & collaboration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Continuous improvement

Descripción del empleo

Join Starr, a global leader in commercial insurance with over a century of expertise. We empower our employees to innovate, make impactful decisions, and build lasting client relationships worldwide. At Starr, you'll work in an entrepreneurial culture alongside accessible leaders, leveraging our financial strength and vast industry experience to deliver solutions for our clients, no matter how complex. Grow your career with a rapidly growing company that invests in its people and their ability to drive real progress.

Position Overview
The Chicago Regional Underwriting Manager will lead Starr’s Middle Market underwriting strategy and execution across the region, with responsibility for driving profitable growth, underwriting excellence, broker engagement, and team development. This role will combine strong technical underwriting leadership with an outward-facing market presence, building Starr’s position with key brokers while developing a high-performing underwriting team.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive profitable growth for Starr’s Midwest region through disciplined underwriting, portfolio management, and strong execution against business objectives.
• Develop and execute regional underwriting strategies, establishing clear production, profitability, retention, and portfolio goals.
• Build and deepen broker relationships across the Midwest market, identifying opportunities to expand Starr’s presence and generate profitable new and renewal business.
• Lead underwriting excellence through effective risk selection, pricing discipline, portfolio management, and data-driven decision-making.
• Lead, coach, and develop the underwriting team, creating a collaborative, accountable, high-performance culture.
• Partner across Starr with underwriting, distribution, risk control, claims, operations, and other stakeholders to deliver a differentiated broker and client experience.
• Monitor market conditions and emerging trends and translate them into actionable underwriting and growth strategies.
• Maintain strong underwriting governance, ensuring adherence to Starr’s underwriting authorities, guidelines, compliance requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Represent Starr in the Midwest marketplace, strengthening the company’s visibility and reputation with key brokers, clients, and industry partners.

Your Skillset

• Deep knowledge of Middle Market Retail P&C underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management.
• Established Chicago and Midwest broker relationships and credibility in the marketplace.
• Demonstrated ability to drive profitable growth while maintaining underwriting discipline.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of developing underwriters and building high-performing teams.
• Ability to balance underwriting judgement, analytics, and market opportunity in making decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence across functions and levels.
• An outward-facing, entrepreneurial mindset with the confidence to represent Starr in the marketplace.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and delivering a strong broker and client experience.

Starr is an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We offer first class training and development opportunities to all employees. Our aim is to grow our own talent and bring out the best in people.