Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer, Portfolio Strategy & Management

MSIG Holdings•New York City, NY

About The Position

The Deputy CUO, Portfolio Strategy & Management is the senior enterprise leader responsible for translating underwriting strategy and risk appetite into active portfolio decisions across all MSIG USA product lines. The role provides an enterprise view of portfolio performance, including portfolio mix, concentration, capacity deployment, and strategic portfolio actions. It complements, rather than replaces, the P&L and market accountability of business and product underwriting leaders. The position partners across underwriting, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Risk Engineering, distribution, Legal/Compliance, international leadership, and senior management to turn portfolio insights into underwriting standards, priorities, and actions. It provides portfolio challenge to business and product leaders while preserving their ownership of P&L, growth, market strategy, broker/MGA commercial relationships, and underwriting execution within authority.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, risk management, insurance, or a related field; the posting also refers to related field experience.
15+ years of progressive specialty or Commercial P&C underwriting experience, including significant enterprise or senior leadership responsibility.
Broad underwriting and portfolio-management expertise across multiple Commercial P&C products, channels, and business units.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise portfolio management, including performance oversight, portfolio review, mix, concentration, volatility, and corrective action.
Deep experience evaluating portfolio economics and underwriting performance across products, channels, and business units.
Proven ability to interpret underwriting performance and make enterprise-level decisions related to capacity deployment, portfolio mix, concentration, growth, and corrective action.
Experience integrating underwriting, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Risk Engineering, distribution, and portfolio analytics perspectives into strategic business decisions.
Commercial orientation, analytical strength, and the judgment and credibility to challenge and influence senior business and underwriting leaders.
Strong executive communication, enterprise leadership, decision-making, and change-leadership skills.
Ability to perform the essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodation available for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Lead enterprise underwriting portfolio management, including performance, mix, concentration, volatility, and emerging portfolio issues.
Drive portfolio optimization and capacity deployment across products and channels in alignment with the CUO’s risk appetite and strategic direction.
Develop cross-business portfolio insights and identify opportunities for profitable growth, diversification, and corrective action.
Coordinate strategic underwriting planning and connect portfolio performance to longer-term business priorities.
Lead distribution and broker portfolio analysis where an enterprise view improves underwriting decision-making.
Partner with Actuarial to incorporate pricing adequacy, loss-cost trends, and portfolio economics into portfolio decisions while preserving Actuarial’s independent challenge.
Partner with Reinsurance on capacity, volatility, aggregation, and risk-transfer considerations while Reinsurance remains directly aligned to the CUO.
Provide executive leadership to Risk Engineering, integrating risk-selection, loss-prevention, engineering, and emerging-risk insights into enterprise portfolio strategy and underwriting decisions.
Partner with the Deputy CUO, Underwriting Excellence, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Risk Engineering, Legal/Compliance, the MSIG international CUO, and senior leadership to translate enterprise portfolio insights into underwriting standards, priorities, and actions.
Provide portfolio challenge to business and product leaders while preserving their ownership of P&L, growth, market strategy, broker/MGA commercial relationships, and underwriting execution within authority.