Director of Reinsurance Underwriting

Anywhere
$180,000 to $280,000
About the role:
A growing international reinsurance organization is seeking a highly experienced Director of Reinsurance Underwriting & Delegated Authority Oversight to help lead and strengthen its global underwriting governance infrastructure across treaty, facultative, MGA/MGU, and delegated authority business platforms. This is a highly visible leadership opportunity for a senior reinsurance professional with deep experience overseeing underwriting controls, delegated authority frameworks, portfolio governance, bordereaux discipline, underwriting audits, and multi-jurisdictional P&C underwriting operations across international markets. The organization is expanding its global underwriting platform and seeks a technically strong, operationally disciplined leader capable of helping build scalable underwriting governance processes across multiple geographies, cedents, distribution structures, and classes of business. The ideal individual brings a strong blend of underwriting expertise, operational oversight, delegated authority governance, and international reinsurance market experience across London, Miami, Bermuda, Dubai, and other major global trading hubs.
reinsurance, underwriting, treaty, facultative, International, Spanish
10+ years of progressive experience within reinsurance underwriting, delegated authority oversight, underwriting governance, or international P&C portfolio management. · Strong experience overseeing MGA/MGU platforms, binding authority programs, underwriting audits, and delegated authority controls. · Demonstrated expertise managing underwriting governance across multiple jurisdictions and international markets. · Deep understanding of treaty structures including Quota Share, Surplus, and Excess of Loss. · Experience with facultative underwriting, bordereaux management, aggregation controls, and underwriting portfolio oversight. · Strong technical understanding of underwriting operations, pricing discipline, exposure analytics, catastrophe management, and portfolio governance. · Experience working with cedents, brokers, MGAs, MGUs, and carrier platforms across global trading hubs. · Familiarity with London Market operations and international reinsurance structures strongly preferred. · Experience across Latin America and Caribbean markets is helpful, but broader international underwriting governance experience is required. · Strong leadership, communication, and operational management skills. · Fluent English required; Spanish is highly preferred.
Underwriting Governance & Delegated Authority Oversight · Lead development and enforcement of delegated authority governance frameworks across international underwriting platforms. · Oversee MGA/MGU and binding authority underwriting operations, controls, audits, and governance standards. · Establish and maintain underwriting policies, delegated authorities, referral thresholds, underwriting guidelines, and portfolio controls. · Evaluate underwriting file quality, bordereaux discipline, aggregation controls, authority adherence, and underwriting governance effectiveness. · Identify and address issues involving authority creep, class leakage, territorial leakage, inconsistent underwriting practices, and guideline deviations. · Conduct underwriting audits and portfolio reviews across multiple jurisdictions and lines of business. Reinsurance Underwriting & Portfolio Management · Oversee treaty and facultative underwriting activities across Property & Casualty portfolios. · Support underwriting strategy, portfolio mix, pricing adequacy, and risk appetite alignment. · Monitor pricing integrity, exposure analytics, volatility, catastrophe accumulations, and capital deployment efficiency. · Partner with actuarial, finance, claims, compliance, and executive leadership on portfolio performance and enterprise risk management initiatives. · Design and evaluate outward reinsurance structures including Quota Share, Surplus, and Excess of Loss programs. · Review reinsurance contract wording, collateral structures, and counterparty credit exposure. International Market & Operational Leadership · Oversee underwriting governance involving cedents, brokers, MGAs, and carriers operating across international markets. · Work with business written through London, Miami, Dubai, Bermuda, Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and other global trading environments. · Ensure operational consistency, underwriting discipline, and governance standards across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory environments. · Support the organization’s continued international growth initiatives and underwriting platform expansion.
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