Regional Head Casualty Facultative
The Regional Head Casualty Facultative is an exciting opportunity within the Property & Casualty Facultative EMEA team.
Are you a strong leader that fully embraces diversity and performance culture, focuses on talent development, and fosters a collaborative and open environment both in your team and across the entire FAC EMEA community? Then this might be for you!
About the Role
In this role you are the underwriting and market leader for Facultative Casualty business in allocated markets and you lead, empower, and develop a large team of junior and senior underwriters. You play an integral part in driving origination and underwriting of sustainable and profitable business, with ownership for the client relationship and full P&L responsibility.
Your focus is to grasp the client's needs, develop corresponding solutions, drive innovation by growing the pipeline of new business solutions and products, maintaining underwriting quality and preserving the value of our portfolio.
Main activities:
- Ownership of the regional casualty facultative results and together with the FAC P&C Leadership team members, of results across EMEA
- Draft and implement respective underwriting and sales strategies and initiatives for your region as well as strategies for selected key clients, brokers, and other business partners
- Origination, evaluation and underwriting of facultative business within your assigned markets, assessing a wide range of risk types by utilizing state-of-the-art models
- Strong focus on positioning in the market, growing traditional business market share, as well as driving innovation and differentiated solutions to generate new opportunities.
- As part of the FAC leadership team you contribute to the cross-functional teams serving their assigned markets and clients
About the Team
We are a customer focused and result oriented team with underwriting and origination roles, where drive, collaboration and passion are key pillars. We are well embedded and part of the landscape of cross-functional teams serving clients and markets in an entrepreneurial and holistic fashion.
About You
You are an open-minded and engaging teammate and leader who promotes partnership and cooperation across teams, units, and countries. As a strategic problem solver with an entrepreneurial can-do mentality and a passion to perform and deliver results, you succeed in creating and developing new solutions and persevering in pursuing opportunities. You are open to the challenges of digital disruption and able to handle ambiguity.
- You have at least seven to ten years of experience in re/insurance Casualty underwriting, including an excellent understanding of markets, products and trends
- Consistent track record as a successful sales leader and dealmaker in originating new business
- Experienced in leading and developing people; a motivational coach who can unlock the potential in others and promotes teamwork and collaboration across business units, countries and functions
- Strong negotiation, presentation and influencing skills
- A strong communicator in English; Other languages a strong plus.
