VP, Underwriting – Energy

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Energy underwriting executive building Coaction’s in-house upstream and midstream insurance platform. Driving profitable growth, delegated partnerships, reinsurance relationships, and underwriting strategy.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and scale Coaction's in-house energy underwriting platform, focusing primarily on upstream and midstream risks
  • Serve as the public face of Coaction's in-house energy capabilities
  • Manage and optimize an existing key delegated partnership
  • Drive profitable growth in a strategically vital segment
  • Develop and execute disciplined underwriting strategies
  • Grow new business by sourcing, assessing, and launching new Coaction energy products
  • Lead capacity and limits management
  • Maintain, leverage, and expand reinsurance and distribution relationships
  • Align growth, appetite, pricing, authority, and capacity decisions with corporate objectives
  • Coordinate with existing delegated energy programs to maintain consistency with broader corporate strategy
  • Meet with distribution partners, insureds, risk managers, and internal stakeholders as needed

Requirements:

  • Senior energy underwriting professional with deep expertise in upstream and midstream property and casualty exposures
  • Established credibility with reinsurance and capacity providers, supported by a track record of profitable underwriting
  • Strong technical command of energy exposures, policy forms, pricing, capacity deployment, limits management, and portfolio aggregation
  • Creative thinker able to leverage CoAction's capabilities to define and develop differentiated offerings
  • Presence and gravitas to represent the company in the marketplace
  • Proven ability to build and manage a profitable book of energy business
  • Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills
  • Comfort operating strategically while being hands-on in underwriting execution and individual risk assessment
  • Deep familiarity with the US energy insurance market on both a primary and excess basis
  • Established relationships across the US energy insurance marketplace, including retail and wholesale producers and domestic and international reinsurance partners
  • Highly disciplined and results-oriented, with the judgment to balance growth with underwriting profitability and to deploy capacity opportunistically
  • Demonstrated track record of sustained profitable growth and effective renewal portfolio management
  • Willingness and ability to travel as needed
  • Active engagement with energy market trends, data, competitive conditions, emerging risks, and loss activity
  • Initiative to advance the technology stack through collaboration with technical experts and third-party software and data providers
  • Direct underwriting experience across CGL, Umbrella/Excess, Commercial Auto, Workers' Compensation, and Control of Well policies and/or Energy Package business

Benefits:

  • Discretionary incentive bonus
  • Paid time off
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Retirement