Excess Casualty E&S Executive Underwriter
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Casualty Excess Executive Underwriter
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HDI Global Insurance Company is a commercial property and casualty insurer headquartered in Chicago, IL. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of HDI Global SE, which manages the industrial lines division of the Talanx Group. Our broad and flexible portfolio of products and services combined with our international network of local insurers in more than 150 countries, provide us the ability to offer a wide range of domestic and global insurance solutions for U.S. based multinational companies.
With Xcelerate29, HDI is shaping its future by becoming a Trusted Global Player, achieving Next-level Excellence, and building a Forward-thinking Organisation. This direction helps HDI Global lead the profitable growth game as a globally connected business, raise the bar every day through stronger underwriting, claims, and investment performance, and win tomorrow by starting today with a lean, fast, resilient, and future-ready organisation. Together, these priorities support profitable growth, sustainable profitability, global consistency, digital transformation, AI acceleration, smart cost leadership, and stronger collaboration across teams and markets. They also reflect our focus on being a workplace of choice by building a future-ready workforce where people learn, grow, adapt to technology change, and contribute to long-term success.
Job Overview
The Casualty Excess Executive Underwriter will own and grow an Excess Casualty book of business with a wholesale broker focus, underwriting complex risks with disciplined pricing and terms, delivering strong service levels, and providing technical leadership that reinforces consistent underwriting practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a profitable Excess Casualty portfolio, including renewals and targeted new business, with clear accountability for results.
- Evaluate exposure, attachment, limit, pricing, and terms using sound underwriting judgment and documented rationale.
- Negotiate coverage and structure within authority and appetite, and drive opportunities to bind when risk selection and pricing are right.
- Build and maintain strong wholesale broker relationships through planned broker and insured meetings and purposeful market engagement.
- Develop and execute a production plan that supports profitable growth and balanced portfolio construction.
- Serve as a technical resource on complex deal structuring, coverage intent, and risk management considerations.
- Support coaching and development of underwriters and reinforce file quality, documentation standards, and peer review discipline.
- Monitor market conditions, loss trends, and emerging hazards and incorporate insights into underwriting decisions.
- Partner with claims, actuarial, operations, and product to support portfolio initiatives and process improvements.
Required Qualifications:
- Significant underwriting experience in Excess Casualty and umbrella, ideally within E&S and wholesale distribution.
- Demonstrated ability to drive profitable growth and manage a book of business with strong execution and follow through.
- Proven broker management and negotiation capability, with comfort in market facing work.
- Strong ability to evaluate complex risks, structure coverage appropriately, and price for severity driven outcomes.
- Ability to communicate decisions clearly, both verbally and in writing, with strong documentation habits.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of U.S. commercial excess casualty underwriting experience,
- Leadership experience mentoring underwriters or serving as a technical lead for a segment, region, or specialty focus.
- Experience using underwriting tools, data, and portfolio insights to support point of sale decisions.
- Prior experience with large, complex accounts and layered casualty structures, including coordination with internal stakeholders.
Core Competencies:
- Technical underwriting judgment for severity driven casualty exposures
- Clear decision making under time pressure
- Strong relationship building with wholesale brokers and internal partners
- Negotiation strength and market awareness
- High standards for documentation, file quality, and underwriting discipline
Compensation and Benefits:
Base salary range for this position is $170,000–$200,000 plus eligibility for a performance-based annual bonus. Actual compensation will be based on experience, education, and geographic location.
We offer a competitive benefits package, including: 401(k) with company match, Paid Time Off, Sick Leave, Medical, Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), Telemedicine, Wellness Program, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Dental, Vision, Accident & Critical Illness Insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dependent Care FSA, Group and Voluntary Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Transit and Parking benefits.
Additional Information
- HDI Global Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
- Recruitment Agencies: All resumes submitted without prior HR authorization will be considered unsolicited.
HDI Global Insurance Company participates in E-Verify.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screen. Testing will be conducted in compliance with applicable state and local laws.