Personal Lines Underwriting Director – Strategy

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🍂 Massachusetts, Michigan – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote

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🧐 Strategy

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Hanover

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1996

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💼 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

• Define and evolve the Personal Lines risk appetite framework, including growth targets, profitability thresholds, volatility tolerance, and concentration limits • Develop and maintain a portfolio strategy view across products, segments, geographies, and distribution channels • Assess portfolio performance relative to risk appetite and strategic objectives; identify emerging risks, exposure shifts, and opportunity areas • Lead scenario analysis and stress testing under varying market, weather, and competitive conditions • Partner with Actuarial and Finance on underwriting strategy, pricing adequacy, capital considerations, and financial outcomes • Translate portfolio insights into strategic direction for Product and Underwriting teams • Provide recommendations on where to grow, maintain, or pull back, supported by rigorous analysis • Establish portfolio KPIs and dashboards for senior leadership oversight and decision-making • Prepare and present executive- and Board-level materials on portfolio health, tradeoffs, and strategic options • Lead cross-functional initiatives involving portfolio rebalancing actions and growth pivots • Manage and develop a team of strategy professionals through coaching, feedback, and career development • Serve as a strategic thought partner to Personal Lines leadership on market positioning and enterprise risk tradeoffs, including reinsurance strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant work experience • 3+ years of proven experience leading cross-functional teams • Strong understanding of insurance portfolio dynamics, risk appetite frameworks, and return tradeoffs • Ability to connect underwriting, pricing, capital, and growth strategies into a coherent portfolio view • Comfortable interpreting complex analyses, scenarios, and tradeoffs without oversimplification • Ability to challenge assumptions, influence senior leaders, and drive difficult tradeoff discussions • Proactively anticipates market, competitive, regulatory, and climate-related portfolio shifts • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing strategy teams • Strong written and verbal communication skills; credible and persuasive with senior leaders and Boards

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, exempt role