AVP – Underwriting

Job Description:

• Lead underwriting for Property and Marine Insurance portfolios ensuring adherence to RQBEs underwriting guidelines authority framework and risk appetite.

• Evaluate and underwrite complex high-value and specialized risks including industrial

• infrastructure energy-adjacent logistics and marine cargo risks.

• Drive profitability through disciplined risk selection pricing adequacy terms & conditions

• optimization and portfolio monitoring.

• Review and approve referrals beyond delegated underwriting authority.

• Risk Engineering & Loss Prevention

• Integrate Risk Engineering assessments into underwriting decisions to ensure robust risk

• evaluation.

• Collaborate with Risk Engineers to analyze site surveys loss control recommendations and risk

• improvement plans.

• Ensure underwriting decisions are supported by quantitative and qualitative risk insights.

• Strategy & Business Development Support

• Partner with Sales Distribution and Reinsurance teams to support growth in targeted segments

• while maintaining underwriting discipline.

• Provide technical underwriting support for key broker and client engagements.

• Contribute to product innovation coverage enhancements and market-facing underwriting

• strategies.

• Governance Compliance & Controls

• Ensure compliance with internal underwriting policies regulatory requirements and audit

• standards.

• Contribute to reinsurance placements by providing underwriting insights portfolio analytics

• and treaty support.

• Monitor accumulation exposure management and catastrophe risk across portfolios.

• Leadership & Capability Building

• Mentor and develop underwriting teams; act as a technical authority for Property and Marine

• underwriting.

• Conduct underwriting reviews training sessions and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

• Foster a culture of risk awareness technical excellence and continuous improvement.