Strategic Underwriting & Analytics Project Lead

CNA Insurance; New Jersey; On-site; USD 72,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

CNA Insurance seeks a data-driven professional to join the Specialty Underwriting team in a role focused on strategy, execution, and analytics. You will lead cross-functional initiatives that drive execution of key underwriting objectives, develop recommendations to advance business priorities, and leverage data to inform decision-making.

The candidate should demonstrate leadership, establish KPIs, provide insightful analyses, and manage ambiguity while delivering high-quality outputs that

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, or related field.
• Typically a minimum of seven years of related work experience.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates execution of underwriting strategy and initiatives to ensure key priorities are achieved.
• Leads medium-complexity projects from planning through execution, managing timelines, priorities, stakeholders, and dependencies to ensure on-time delivery and business outcomes.
• Develops and enhances analytical tools and models, including underwriting forecasting models, to support business planning and decision‑making.
• Collaborates with Distribution, Actuarial, Claim, Government Relations, Product Development, Risk Control and other functional areas to ensure operational activities are meeting overall business goals.
• Responds to and fulfills ad-hoc data requests.

Skills

Data analysis

Power BI

Excel

Project management

Communication

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Microsoft Office

Job description

CNA Insurance seeks a data-driven professional to join the Specialty Underwriting team in a role focused on strategy, execution, and analytics. You will lead cross-functional initiatives that drive execution of key underwriting objectives, develop recommendations to advance business priorities, and leverage data to inform decision-making.

The candidate should demonstrate leadership, establish KPIs, provide insightful analyses, and manage ambiguity while delivering high-quality outputs that