Vice President, Aviation

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Skyward Specialty Insurance

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💰 $177.3M Post-IPO Secondary - Skyward Specialty on 2024-05

Construction • Consulting • Healthcare

Skyward Specialty Insurance is a Houston-based specialty insurance group that provides tailored risk solutions across niche and complex markets. The company offers a range of specialty insurance products including transactional Excess & Surplus (E&S), professional lines, medical stop-loss, surety, captives, programs, global property, agriculture & credit (re)insurance, and risk consulting. Skyward works primarily with brokers and agents, leverages technology (including e-surety capabilities) to deliver innovative underwriting and claims services, and focuses on high-complexity, non-standard risks and scalable specialty solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead Skyward Specialty's aviation book and own its full profit and loss • Set the annual class plan and execute it against key performance targets • Build and develop the underwriting team and support supervisor • Personally underwrite, price and negotiate key aviation accounts • Run underwriting meetings, technical reviews and training sessions • Identify growth opportunities and strengthen the class proposition • Partner with the Apollo Aviation team to generate opportunities, advance product development and share market intelligence • Prepare annual production forecasts and departmental expense budgets • Build, manage and execute the account pipeline • Strengthen relationships with key brokers and clients and maintain excellent service standards • Collaborate with actuarial, claims, compliance, risk, human resources, capital and underwriting teams • Lead reinsurance purchasing for the class • Review risk selection, underwriting quality and pricing across the department • Maintain pricing models, underwriting guidelines, policy forms, coverage provisions and rates • Coordinate form and rate filings and prepare new filings for state regulators • Review and approve changes to the underwriting database system • Monitor portfolio performance and implement controls and initiatives within agreed risk parameters • Review aviation loss notices and analyze loss and claims data • Participate in management calls and committees • Ensure underwriting activity meets governance, regulatory and internal control requirements • Serve as Skyward's market expert for aviation • Meet with brokers and attend client presentations • Represent Skyward externally in the insurance market

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of underwriting experience in general aviation insurance • 5+ years of people management experience leading underwriting teams • 5+ years of P&L ownership for an aviation class, portfolio or business unit • Proven record of profitable growth within agreed risk and loss ratio parameters • Senior underwriting authority on complex aviation accounts, with strong pricing and negotiation skills • Established relationships with aviation brokers and producers in the US market • Working knowledge of state form and rate filings and regulatory requirements • Experience building annual business plans, production forecasts and expense budgets • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience • Experience across multiple aviation segments (preferred) • Experience leading reinsurance purchasing for a class of business (preferred) • Exposure to the Lloyd's market or collaboration with London-based underwriting partners (preferred) • Professional designation such as CPCU, AU or ARe (preferred) • Private pilot certificate or other hands-on aviation background (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and welfare benefits • Tuition and professional certification assistance • 401k savings • Elective participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program • Paid time off • Paid holidays • Child bonding leave • Employee assistance

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