Underwriting Assistant
JMAC Lending
Underwriting Director – Excess Casualty
ICW Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $168,671 - $301,925 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Continue to refine and execute the underwriting strategy for Excess Casualty, aligning with ICW Specialty’s multi-year growth objectives.
- Ensure marketplace is clear on appetite, product design, and distribution strategy across middle market and large account segments.
- Build a profitable portfolio that aligns with the strategic business plan, goals and objectives.
- Identify opportunities for continued product innovation and differentiation, including niche industries, emerging risks, and new solutions for wholesale brokers.
- Represent ICW Specialty externally with brokers, clients, and reinsurers; act as a thought leader and brand ambassador in the marketplace.
- Gather pertinent competitive and market information to assist in developing recommendations to evaluating new business and product development.
- Oversee underwriting execution across all accounts, ensuring adherence to guidelines, pricing adequacy, and governance controls.
- Manage portfolio performance with accountability for profitability, risk selection, and portfolio balance (by industry, geography, attachment, and limits).
- Identify trends, emerging risks, and opportunities for improvement or innovation.
- Partner with actuarial, claims, and reinsurance colleagues to maintain strong analytics, pricing discipline, and portfolio insights.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, underwriting audits, and corporate governance standards.
- Build, manage, and mentor a team of underwriters and underwriting assistants, fostering an environment of learning, accountability, and empowerment.
- Set clear performance goals, provide coaching and development, and hold team members accountable to underwriting excellence.
- Model and reinforce a culture where accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation thrive.
- Actively recruit and retain top underwriting talent, with a focus on diverse perspectives and growth mindset.
- Work closely with IT, Operations, and Finance to design and optimize the underwriting tech stack, workflow efficiency, and data capture.
- Serve as a bridge between the underwriting team and broader ICW Specialty leadership, ensuring transparency, alignment, and shared accountability.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree required.
- Minimum 10-12 years of underwriting and leadership experience in casualty insurance, with deep expertise in Excess Casualty.
- Proven track record of leading underwriting teams and managing profitable portfolios across multiple industries and account sizes.
- Established relationships with wholesalers, with a reputation of credibility, urgency with a get things done attitude.
- Strong grasp of underwriting governance, analytics, reinsurance, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience building and scaling new teams or product lines is highly preferred.
Benefits
- Challenging work and the ability to make a difference
- You will have a voice and feel a sense of belonging
- We offer a competitive benefits package, with generous medical, dental, and vision plans as well as 401K retirement plans and company match
- Bonus potential for all positions
- Paid Time Off with an accrual rate of 5.23 hours per pay period (equal to 17 days per year)
- 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Want to continue learning? We’ll support you 100%
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
underwritingportfolio managementproduct innovationrisk selectionanalyticspricing disciplineregulatory compliancegovernance controlsteam buildingleadership
Soft skills
collaborationaccountabilitycoachingmentoringcommunicationthought leadershipcredibilityurgencyinclusiongrowth mindset
