Divisional CUO, Primary Casualty - Everest : Job Details

Company: Everest Insurance Company

Job Category: Underwriting

Job Description:

About Everest: Everest is a global leader in risk management, rooted in a rich, 50+ year heritage of enabling businesses to survive and thrive, and economies to function and flourish. We are underwriters of risk, growth, progress and opportunity. We are a global team focused on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation for all stakeholders, who care deeply about our impact on communities and the wider world.

Overview: Everest is seeking a Divisional CUO for Primary Casualty, with flexibility to be based in our Warren, NJ, Philadelphia, PA, New York, NY, Stamford, CT, or Boston, MA office. Reporting directly to the Chief Underwriting Officer of Everest Insurance, you will play a crucial role in building a world-class underwriting organization by developing and executing a governance framework dedicated to underwriting excellence.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Audit Management: Supports the management and buildout of the UW Audit process within Everest Nationalcycle management/schedule management, audit recommendations process and guidelines. Develops analytical database and system to provide trend analysis by business unit within the insurance group.
• New Product Development: Assists in new product develop oversight and pipeline reviews working with product line leadership and field underwriters.
• Authority Management: Assists in development and updates of corporate authority template and leads implementation efforts to develop an analytical database to review authority levels and triggers. Develops a corporate underwriting referral log database to track corporate referral trends and analytics.
• Emerging Risks: Establish a process for product board and senior management reviews of emerging risk exposures.
• Operational Support: Review current Insurance Group workflows and provide corporate underwriting guidance to operations on policy issuance workflow efficiency improvements where needed.
• Portfolio Management: Drive optimal portfolio management strategy delivering sustainable profitable growth to the organization and by helping to enhance the use of data and analytics to improve risk selection and portfolio management. Providing strategic guidance and support on key underwriting and growth initiatives.
• Operational Support: Review current insurance group workflows and provide corporate underwriting guidance to operations on policy issuance, raters and workflow efficiency improvements where needed. Facilitating continuous improvement of underwriting processes for efficiency, quality and compliance. Provides support to corporate underwriting SharePoint/Intranet materials as needed.
• Special Projects/Underwriting Guidelines: Develop, administer and monitor underwriting rules and guidelines collaboratively working with product line leadership and underwriters as needed. Work on special projects as assigned.

Work Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree - Insurance certifications (CPCU, ARM, FCAS, etc.) preferred.
• 15+ years of insurance underwriting experience.
• Strong Casualty technical skill set required, including experience with loss sensitive and alternative risk sharing structures. International Casualty experience a plus.
• Strong problem-solving analytical skills. Ability to drive data analytics and make appropriate correlations on results. Throughout the organization. Strong computer skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines across a variety of stakeholders to meet target deliverable deadlines.
• Strong communications skills both written and oral. Ability to concisely provide executive summaries to senior management as needed.
• Experience in corporate governance and controls management including exposure to a wide variety of systems.
• Wide variety of assignments in operational workflow reviews and systems a plus.
• Experience in corporate governance controls and supporting infrastructure.
• Strategic, collaborative, growth oriented.
• Well organized with relentless attention to detail.
• Self-motivated.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• High sense of urgency.
• Action oriented and strong work ethic.
• Intellectual curiosity to delve into various business problems.

The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $300,000 annually. The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, experience, qualifications and work location. All offers include access to a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

At Everest we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every element in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout the application or interview process.

Our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors.

Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Inclusion and Belonging.

Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve.

Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Primary Location: New York, NY

Additional Locations: Boston, MA, Chicago, IL - South Riverside, Warren, NJ

Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Everest Benefits at [email protected].