Vice President – E&S Brokerage – Property

🕒 July 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $235k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 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

• Own the underwriting direction, risk appetite, and portfolio composition of the E&S Property (Primary & Excess) book across target classes • Set and enforce underwriting standards, pricing guidelines, and coverage parameters • Lead complex and large-account underwriting decisions as the team's technical authority and escalation point • Manage accumulation and enforce CAT exclusions, including no Tier 1 Wind, Flood, or EQ/EQSL • Drive use of underwriting indications to improve broker decisioning and client expectations • Monitor and manage loss ratios, combined ratios, and portfolio trends, taking corrective action when needed • Partner with actuarial and finance on pricing adequacy, rate monitoring, and reserving inputs • Analyze submission flow, hit ratios, and renewal retention to guide portfolio growth and tightening • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 10 property underwriters • Establish performance expectations, accountability frameworks, and continuous improvement culture • Recruit and retain underwriting talent and build bench strength • Cultivate relationships with wholesale broker partners and serve as senior contact for strategic accounts • Collaborate with production and distribution leadership on appetite gaps and market opportunities • Represent Skyward at industry events, broker meetings, and wholesale market forums • Work with claims, actuarial, legal, and product teams to support the book end-to-end • Provide market and competitive intelligence for product development and pricing strategy • Partner with technology and operations to improve submission handling, data quality, and workflow efficiency

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of E&S or specialty property underwriting experience • Meaningful experience in a wholesale/non-admitted environment • Prior leadership experience managing underwriting teams • Ability to operate as both a strategic leader and technical contributor • Track record of building or managing a profitable property book across broad commercial classes • Deep knowledge of commercial property underwriting, including COPE analysis, rate-on-line assessment, and coverage structure • Familiarity with layered property structures, including ground-up, primary, quota share, and excess • Working knowledge of ISO and proprietary property forms • Proficiency in evaluating equipment breakdown, property enhancement, and schedule risks • Strong understanding of CAT modeling concepts and accumulation management principles • Strong communication and relationship-building skills with wholesale brokers and internal executive stakeholders • Ability to translate portfolio analytics into actionable strategy • High accountability and comfort owning results and making decisions on underperforming segments • Collaborative, team-oriented approach with ability to develop talent and build a high-performance culture

🏖️ 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 • Other employee assistance • Performance-based incentives may be available