Kettle

Underwriter

• Underwrite and approve complex commercial property risks, including Ground-Up, Primary, Shared, and other potential placements.
• Manage and grow a profitable book of E&S property business while maintaining underwriting discipline and profitability targets.
• Establish, implement, and monitor underwriting guidelines, authorities, and best practices.
• Evaluate emerging risks, market trends, catastrophe exposures, and competitive conditions to support underwriting strategy.
• Ensure consistency in underwriting decisions across the portfolio.
• Directly supervise, mentor, and develop a team of underwriters.
• Conduct performance management, coaching, training, and professional development activities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Assist in recruiting, onboarding, and retaining top underwriting talent.
• Review underwriting quality and provide technical guidance on complex risks.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with wholesale brokers, carrier partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Serve as a senior underwriting representative in broker meetings, industry events, and business development initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for profitable growth within existing and prospective distribution relationships.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and cross functional teams to develop and launch new products and coverage offerings.
• Support expansion into All Other Perils (AOP) property products while maintaining expertise in wildfire and catastrophe-exposed business.
• Provide underwriting input for pricing, product design, forms development, and portfolio management initiatives.
• Utilize underwriting technology, predictive analytics, and data-driven insights to improve underwriting outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with surplus lines regulations, carrier guidelines, delegated authority requirements, and company policies.
• Monitor underwriting controls, audit findings, and quality assurance metrics.
• Participate in implementation and optimization of underwriting workbench, policy administration, and workflow management platforms.
• Support regulatory examinations, carrier audits, and internal compliance reviews.
• Participate in underwriting committee meetings and portfolio reviews.
• Assist with catastrophe management and aggregation monitoring.
• Travel up to 30% for broker visits, conferences, carrier meetings, and business development activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Senior Manager, Underwriting