Senior Underwriting Manager, Major Accounts Casualty

Liberty Mutual•Plano, TX

22h

About The Position

The Senior Underwriting Manager leads a team of Loss Sensitive Primary Casualty Underwriters serving retail-market customers. The role is accountable for the team’s underwriting performance, talent management, portfolio results, and execution of the business strategy. It oversees the attraction, development, compensation, performance management, and engagement of team members while promoting disciplined, data-driven underwriting across a complex loss sensitive casualty portfolio. The role requires strong technical expertise in primary casualty, loss sensitive structures, and retail distribution, as well as the ability to build trusted relationships with retail brokers, agents, clients, internal partners, and other market stakeholders. The Senior Underwriting Manager may contribute to business planning, portfolio strategy, product development, and market-facing initiatives for the assigned business area.

Requirements

A degree in Business or equivalent is typically required.
A minimum of 10 years of progressive underwriting experience or equivalent is expected.
A minimum of 2 years of proven underwriting management experience is preferred.
Proven analytical ability to evaluate high-impact underwriting risks within scope of responsibility.
Ability to communicate complex analyses and information.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills when dealing with internal and external partners.
Strong leadership, people-development, and coaching and mentoring skills.
Strategic thinking and sustained effective portfolio management and profitable growth capabilities.
Strong communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and negotiating skills.
Results-oriented, industrious, and innovative approach.

Nice To Haves

CPCU or another professional insurance designation is preferred.
A minimum of 2 years of proven underwriting management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of Loss Sensitive Primary Casualty Underwriters serving retail-market customers, including talent attraction, engagement, compensation, performance management, and succession planning.
Drive underwriting excellence by reinforcing disciplined risk selection, pricing adequacy, exposure analysis, appropriate terms and conditions, and compliance with underwriting authority.
Communicate and execute underwriting strategy, including risk appetite, target industries, portfolio priorities, broker engagement, profitability objectives, and risk-adjusted growth.
Own the performance of all or part of the retail loss sensitive casualty portfolio, including profitability, rate adequacy, retention, new business, premium, exposure quality, and portfolio concentration.
Provide senior technical guidance on complex primary casualty risks and loss sensitive structures, including large deductibles, retrospective programs, collateral requirements and alternatives, and significant loss experience.
Escalate and address challenging underwriting decisions, guideline exceptions, large loss sensitive opportunities, distressed risks, and unusual program structures.
Contribute to business planning, portfolio strategy, product development, and market-facing initiatives for the assigned business area.