Shepherd Commercial Casualty Underwriting Leader (Director) at Shepherd leads the launch and growth of the Retail Commercial Casualty vertical. This role defines underwriting strategy, go-to-market plans, and drives profitable growth.
Responsibilities
Define the strategy for retail commercial casualty, including target classes, lines of business, limits, attachment points, geographies, appetite, and growth and loss-ratio targets.
Support the development of underwriting guidelines, authority framework, referral rules, and rating approach.
Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data to design the submission-to-bind workflow, pricing tools, and exposure and loss-trend views.
Underwrite new and renewal primary and excess casualty within your authority.
Own premium, profit, loss-ratio, retention, and expense results for the vertical.
Use your retail broker relationships to drive submission flow in the first year, and serve as Shepherd's senior casualty voice with brokers, clients, and other stakeholders.
Hire, coach, and grow a team of casualty underwriters and support staff as the book scales.
Work with Corporate Underwriting to help set letters of authority, run underwriting audits, and coach from the results.
Work with Claims, Actuarial, Customer Experience and Finance so the business is underwritten, serviced, and reported well.
This is a position based in our New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Dallas–Fort Worth offices.
The base salary range for this role is $250,000 – $350,000, plus an annual performance bonus and equity in Shepherd. Offers within the range depend on location, experience, and the relationships and market following you bring.
Shepherd runs on four values. Here's what each one means in this seat.
Qualification
Required
10+ years of commercial casualty underwriting experience
Deep expertise in retail middle market and large accounts
Proven record of profitable growth managing casualty book
Strong technical command of risk selection, exposure and loss analysis, loss development and trends, pricing
