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Director of Corporate Underwriting
Everest Re Group
Liberty Corner, NJ, United States
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Job Description
Everest Insurance, a member of Everest Re Group, Ltd., is seeking a Director of Corporate Underwriting for its headquarters in Liberty Corner, New Jersey.
This position ultimately supports Everest Insurance's® Chief Underwriting Officer in building a world class underwriting organization through development and execution of governance framework focused on underwriting excellence.
The five key areas of engagement for this position are noted below:
• Audit Management: Supports the management and buildout of the UW Audit process within Everest National—cycle management/schedule management, audit recommendations process and guidelines. Develops analytical database and system to provide trend analysis by Business Unit within the Insurance Group.
• New Product Development: Assists in New Product develop oversight and pipeline reviews working with Product Line leadership and field underwriters.
• Authority Management: Assists in development and updates of Corporate Authority template and leads implementation efforts to develop an analytical database to review authority levels and triggers. Develops a CU referral log database to track corporate referral trends and analytics.
• Emerging Risks: Establish a process for Product Board and Senior Management reviews of emerging risk exposures.
• Operational Support: Review current Insurance Group workflows and provide CU guidance to Operations on Policy issuance workflow efficiency improvements where needed.
• Portfolio Management: Drive optimal portfolio management strategy delivering sustainable profitable growth to the organization and by helping to enhance the use of data and analytics to improve risk selection and portfolio management. Providing strategic guidance and support on key underwriting and growth initiatives.
• Audit Management: All aspects of UW audit management and processes. Includes working with DCUO to build out a new on line audit systems capability of the UW Audit process within Everest National—cycle management/schedule management, audit recommendations process and Audit guidelines. Develop analytical database and system to provide trend analysis by Business Unit for senior mgt. within the Insurance Group. Lead and participate in Business Unit and Program audits as needed.
• New Product Development: Assist in New Product development oversight and pipeline reviews. Ensure that the integrity of the process and appropriate stakeholders are weighing in to build a lasting profitable space in the marketplace.
• Authority Management: Assist in development and updates of Corporate Authority template and leads implementation efforts to develop an analytical database to review authority levels and triggers. Develop a CU referral log database to track corporate referral trends and analytics to help set appropriate authority levels and controls oversight. Participate in new or renewal referrals to Corporate Underwriting as needed.
• Emerging Risks: Establish a process for vetting of emerging risks through an Emerging Risks Product Board and Senior Management signoff on management and net positions for emerging risk exposures.
• Operational Support: Review current Insurance Group workflows and provide CU guidance to Operations on Policy issuance, raters and workflow efficiency improvements where needed. Facilitating continuous improvement of underwriting processes for efficiency, quality and compliance. Provides support to CU SharePoint/Intranet materials as needed.
• Underwriting Guidelines: Develop, administer and monitor underwriting rules and guidelines collaboratively working with Product Line leadership and underwriters as needed.
Work Experience and Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree - Insurance certifications (CPCU, ARM, FCAS, etc.) preferred.
• 15+ years of insurance underwriting experience.
• Strong problem solving analytical skills. Ability to drive data analytics and make appropriate correlations on results. Throughout the organization. Strong computer skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines across a variety of stakeholders to meet target deliverable deadlines.
• Strong communications skills both written and oral. Ability to concisely provide executive summaries to senior management as needed.
• Experience in corporate governance and controls management including exposure to a wide variety of systems.
• Wide variety of assignments in operational workflow reviews and systems a plus.
• Experience in corporate governance controls and supporting infrastructure.
• Strategic, collaborative, growth oriented.
• Well organized with relentless attention to detail.
• Self-motivated.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• High sense of urgency.
• Action oriented and strong work ethic.
• Intellectual curiosity to delve into various business problems.
Everest is committed to recruiting and retaining the most talented individuals in the industry. We offer a dynamic work environment and a competitive compensation and benefit package which includes a 401k plan, retirement/savings option, tuition reimbursement, medical, dental, vision, life and group legal plans.
Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.