Personal Lines Underwriting Director – Strategy Execution

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🍂 Massachusetts, Michigan – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧐 Strategy

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Hanover

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1996

🎯 Recruiter

💼 Consulting

Recruitment • Consulting

Hanover is an executive search and talent solutions firm focused on recruiting, developing, and placing senior leaders and advisory teams, primarily within financial services. The firm offers executive search, strategic consulting on talent strategy, coaching, outplacement, board services, workshops and leadership development, and market intelligence. With offices in London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, Hanover partners with banks, asset managers, insurers, wealth managers, fintechs and private equity firms to support the full talent lifecycle and build diverse, high-performing leadership teams.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end underwriting guidelines strategy for Personal Lines • Lead development, governance, and evolution of underwriting rules, decision trees, and eligibility frameworks across channels and products • Define the strategic roadmap for underwriting models, including risk segmentation, pricing support, and decision automation • Translate analytic outputs into actionable underwriting guidance for automated and human decisioning • Establish governance frameworks for guideline changes, model updates, and rule deployments • Drive underwriting modernization, including automation, straight-through processing, and model-driven decisioning • Partner with IT and Delivery teams to implement underwriting strategies in systems and monitor post-deployment performance • Develop monitoring and feedback loops to assess guideline and model performance and recommend enhancements • Produce executive-ready materials explaining underwriting logic, tradeoffs, and impacts • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of strategy professionals • Represent underwriting strategy in senior leadership forums and cross-functional design decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant work experience • 3+ years of proven experience leading cross-functional teams • Deep understanding of underwriting guidelines, decision frameworks, and practical application of predictive models • Ability to convert risk appetite and analytic insight into executable underwriting rules and guidance • Comfort partnering with data science, actuarial, and analytics teams; ability to challenge and interpret model outputs • Understanding of system constraints, frontline usability, and deploying strategy at scale • Proven ability to lead teams through significant change in tools, processes, and ways of working • Demonstrated success as a people manager, including talent development and performance management • Ability to explain complex underwriting and modeling concepts succinctly to senior leaders

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, exempt role • Remote or virtual work arrangement