North America Casualty Treaty Reinsurance Underwriter

AXIS (AXIS Capital) • Short Hills, NJ

19h • $185,000 - $250,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The North America Casualty Treaty Reinsurance Underwriter will underwrite and manage a portfolio of North American General Casualty and Workers Compensation treaty reinsurance business. Reporting to the Head of North America General Casualty and Workers Compensation, AXIS Re, the role supports Business Unit profit goals, portfolio strategy, client and broker engagement, and disciplined cycle management across General Liability, Workers Compensation, Commercial Auto Liability, Umbrella/Excess Liability, and other casualty classes within the team’s appetite.

The successful candidate is a hands-on casualty treaty underwriting professional with strong technical judgment and a record of building and managing a complex reinsurance book. The role spans the treaty underwriting lifecycle, including submission review, portfolio analysis, pricing, structuring, negotiation, authorization, documentation, and post-bind monitoring. It requires commercial judgment, professional presence, and the ability to communicate, influence, and build relationships that support the AXIS Re portfolio and longer-term strategic initiatives.

The position involves travel to clients, brokers, audits, and industry events, as well as being in the office or visiting brokers or clients three days per week. Broker and client events may involve evenings and some weekend travel. The role is exempt for FLSA purposes. The position is an existing vacancy.

Requirements

• Demonstrated casualty underwriting, reinsurance underwriting, broking, actuarial, or related experience with a strong understanding of North American casualty business.
• Knowledge of General Casualty and Workers Compensation, with familiarity across Commercial Auto Liability, Umbrella/Excess Liability, General Liability, and related casualty classes.
• Working knowledge of actuarial and pricing concepts, including experience partnering with actuarial teams to evaluate and price reinsurance treaties.
• Ability to assess exposure and experience data, loss development, rate and exposure change, limits, retentions, attachment points, and treaty economics.
• Strong grasp of underlying policy forms, reinsurance contract wording, exclusions, claims issues, and the roles of claims, actuarial, legal, accounting, and finance in underwriting.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to audiences at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, marketing, and influencing skills, with sound judgment amid ambiguity or changing priorities.
• Client-focused approach and flexibility in developing solutions that meet client needs while maintaining underwriting discipline.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple submissions, renewals, and peak-period workflows.
• Collaborative and versatile, with the ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
• Ability to initiate and independently lead defined projects and portfolio initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent industry experience.

Nice To Haves

• CPCU, ARe, ACAS, FCAS, ARM, or another relevant industry designation.
• A minimum of five years of casualty insurance, reinsurance underwriting, actuarial, claims, or broking experience.
• Experience underwriting or analyzing both proportional and non-proportional casualty treaty structures.
• Established relationships with reinsurance brokers and North American casualty insurers.
• Effective strategic relationship management and portfolio management skills.
• Advanced Excel capability, including lookup functions, PivotTables, and analysis across multiple data sets.
• Experience building dashboards or data models using Power BI.
• Experience with AI Assistants.
• Based in the New York City area or another approved AXIS office location.

Responsibilities

• Originate, analyze, price, structure, negotiate, and underwrite North American general casualty and workers compensation treaty business in accordance with underwriting guidelines, portfolio appetite, allocated authority, and established best practices.
• Manage assigned renewals and new-business opportunities across proportional and non-proportional treaty structures, including quota share, surplus share, working excess, and catastrophe or clash protections, as applicable.
• Assess cedent strategy, management, underwriting controls, distribution, claims practices, reserving, rate adequacy, exposure trends, and historical performance to develop an underwriting view.
• Partner with actuarial, claims, contract wording, finance, and legal colleagues to evaluate treaty economics, assumptions, terms and conditions, and potential volatility.
• Build and maintain relationships with reinsurance intermediaries and cedent clients to support profitable business origination, retention, and long-term strategic partnerships.
• Contribute to casualty strategy and portfolio management, including appetite, guidelines, aggregate and limit management, concentration monitoring, and deployment of capacity.
• Monitor market conditions and casualty loss drivers, including social inflation, litigation trends, legal and regulatory developments, medical inflation, loss-cost trends, and changes in underlying policy terms.
• Prepare underwriting referrals, portfolio updates, and recommendations for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Participate in cedent underwriting audits, claims reviews, stewardship meetings, and ongoing account-performance monitoring.
• Maintain accurate and timely underwriting documentation, pricing records, exposure data, and internal system entries.
• Travel to service clients, meet brokers, conduct audits, and attend industry conferences and market events.
• Take on additional duties, responsibilities, and activities appropriate to the nature of the role.

Benefits

• Competitive target incentive compensation, with awards based on overall corporate performance and individual performance.
• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical plans for the employee and family.
• Health and wellness programs.
• Retirement plans.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Paid vacation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level