Regional Underwriting Manager

7 months ago

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Chubb Full time

**The Opportunity**

Are you an Underwriter with experience in leading an Underwriting Team?

If you are interested in developing your career within one of the largest commercial insurers in the world with excellent salary and employee benefits, then we would love to hear from you

Main duties of this role is to input to and implement strategy agreed by underwriting management and to identify and execute Chubb goals in delivering long term sustainable growth for the region. We ask you to produce a profit for the portfolio across the product line in accordance with the business plan. You will also ensure underwriting integrity through appropriate deployment of underwriting guidelines and controls, consistency of approach towards risk selection, pricing, and use of capacity whilst recognising market conditions.

**Your Responsibilities for this role may include, but are not limited to**:

- Business Goals: To underwrite new business or renewals according to defined underwriting guidelines, specified budget and local growth plan.
- Financial Goals: To define and implement underwriting strategy and quoting process for the regions by undertaking business and financial planning in order to achieve financial goals and requirements as set out in the business plan.
- Portfolio Integrity: To manage the portfolio build and maintain underwriting integrity by ensuring effective communication throughout the region to ensure responsiveness to changing business environment. To ensure quality control by undertaking quantitative underwriting reviews, running regular management meetings and peer reviews.
- Product Development: To prioritise and lead product development effort to improve client retention and new business. This will involve collaborating with peers within and across business lines in Europe as well as globally.
- Producer Management: To represent and promote Chubb corporately to brokers, internal and external clients domestically and overseas. This may involve servicing key producers and clients, monitoring business acquisition and retention as well as maximising cross-selling opportunities.
- Procedures: To review, develop and implement procedures to maximise operational effectiveness and update underwriting guidelines. To oversee peer review process to ensure risks are written within guidelines or are forwarded for exception reports. To enforce regulatory and internal requirements as to workflow, control and monitoring.
- Operational Management: To develop and implement business plans for direct reports and their teams. To define underwriting authority levels. To allocate resources to meet business objectives. To ensure the PMP process is adhered. To define roles for employees, manage and review performance of direct reports and to provide appropriate training/ mentoring support. To manage a team of appropriately skilled and experienced underwriters and their support staff operating in regional area.

**What skills & experience are required?**
- Professional understanding and working knowledge of specialist product line, the insurance market and competitors.
- Solid experience of dealing with brokers and clients. Results driven with ability to make own decisions and work on own initiative.
- A highly experienced professional who has a strong external reputation. Experience of leadership, training, mentoring and people development.

**Integrity. Client focus. Respect. Excellence. Teamwork**

Our core values dictate how we live and work. We’re an ethical and honest company that’s wholly committed to its clients. A business that’s engaged in mutual trust and respect for its employees and partners. A place where colleagues perform at the highest levels. And a working environment that’s collaborative and supportive.

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

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