Head of Portfolio Underwriting (Remote First)

March 9

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Zensurance

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Zensurance makes business insurance easy for Canadian entrepreneurs.

Commercial business insurance • Property and Casualty Insurance • Canada Insurance • Startup Insurance

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💰 Series B on 2020-08

Description

• Portfolio Underwriting: Strategic Leadership: define and implement underwriting strategies that align with the organization’s business objectives while providing leadership to the Underwriting Team. • Performance: partner with the Business Lead to create a prioritized roadmap of initiatives and work closely with the team to deliver on these initiatives to help drive performance results. • Relationships: represent Zensurance with external insurance carriers showcasing underwriting expertise, building trust, and driving to desired strategic outcomes. Leverage your network to help introduce new relationships. • Underwriting: develop and update underwriting guidelines, wordings, procedures, and technical pricing. • Quality Control: ensure our contracts are well maintained and in compliance, our UW guidelines are internally followed, high quality of human and digital underwriting and policy issuance. • Risk Management: oversee the assessment and management of risks associated with the portfolio and ensure regulatory compliance. • Portfolio Analysis: conduct regular portfolio reviews to identify trends, opportunities, and potential areas of improvement in collaboration with the data analytics team. • Collaboration: collaborate with other departments such as sales, finance, legal, insurance analytics and product to ensure a holistic approach to risk management and portfolio optimization. Work closely with senior leadership to align underwriting strategies with broader business goals. • Client Engagement: engage with clients, brokers, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations. • Reporting and Analysis: partner with the Business Lead to prepare and present regular reports on portfolio performance, key metrics, and underwriting trends to senior management. • People Leadership: Responsible for supervising, managing and guiding a small team of experienced Portfolio Underwriters. Attract, develop, and retain high performing people.

Requirements

• University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program or equivalent work experience. • 10+ years of commercial insurance experience. • 10+ years of commercial portfolio underwriting experience. • 5+ years of people management experience. • Working within an MGA or in a program-specific division of an Insurance Company or Commercial Brokerage would be an asset. • Subject matter expertise in at least one of the following coverages: CGL, Professional Liability, Commercial Property. • Knowledge of the Canadian commercial insurance market and players, as well as Lloyds. • Ability to use an understanding of market trends, regulatory climate, competitors, and the current challenges faced by the insurance industry to help shape our unique value proposition. • Experience in interpreting data, including profit/loss & claims performance, to guide pricing and coverage decisions. • Exceptional communication, influencing and organizational skills with staff and customers, as well as with new business partners. • Ability to develop strong teams and empower teams and individuals so that they reach their full potential. • Nice to have: CAIB, CIP, CRM, FCIP are an asset. • Currently or previously licensed as a commercial broker is an asset. • Experience with Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, or similar office tools.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for Canada’s fastest-growing #insurtech scale-up • Primarily remote work environment available to everyone • Laptop, extra monitor and main accessories are provided • Extra home office and supplies allowance to help with work-from-home set up • Comprehensive and flexible health and dental plans to suit all lifestyles, including mental health • Health/Personal Spending Accounts to subsidize your healthy habits and purchases • Parental Leave