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Skyward Specialty Insurance

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🤝 B2B

💸 Finance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

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

B2B • Finance • Healthcare Insurance

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 book across all target classes • Set and enforce underwriting standards, pricing guidelines, and coverage parameters consistent with the book's profitability objectives • Lead complex and large-account underwriting decisions; serve as the technical authority and escalation point for the team • Maintain a disciplined approach to accumulation management • Monitor and actively manage loss ratios, combined ratios, and portfolio trends • Partner with actuarial and finance on pricing adequacy, rate monitoring, and reserving inputs • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 10 property underwriters • Cultivate and deepen relationships with key wholesale broker partners

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of E&S or specialty property underwriting experience with meaningful time in a wholesale/non-admitted environment • Prior leadership experience managing underwriting teams • Demonstrated track record of building or managing a profitable property book across a broad range of commercial classes • Deep knowledge of commercial property underwriting including COPE analysis, rate-on-line assessment, and coverage structure • Familiarity with layered property structures (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

🏖️ 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