Product Lead - Pest Control Program
Position Summary
The Product Head, Pest Control Program is responsible for the overall underwriting, portfolio, and business performance of Ryan Specialty's Pest Control Program. This leader develops and executes the underwriting strategy, aligns talent and capital resources, and oversees portfolio performance to drive sustainable growth and profitability.
What will your job entail?
Develop and execute the underwriting strategy for the Pest Control Program, ensuring alignment with carrier and capital provider appetite, growth objectives, profitability targets, and loss ratio expectations.
Own overall product portfolio performance, including premium growth, retention, new business production, loss ratio results, geographic distribution, class mix, and underwriting quality.
Establish and maintain underwriting guidelines, authorities, referral structures, and governance processes.
Monitor market conditions, competitive trends, emerging exposures, and loss drivers to refine underwriting strategy and product positioning.
Identify opportunities for product enhancements, geographic expansion, coverage innovation, and profitable growth.
Partner with actuarial and analytics teams to develop and enhance pricing methodologies, rating tools, and portfolio performance monitoring.
Serve as the first line of defense for underwriting compliance, portfolio oversight, and underwriting governance.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Insurance, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field required. Master's degree preferred.
Experience: 10+ years of commercial property and casualty underwriting experience. Significant experience managing specialized program business, MGA/MGU portfolios, or niche commercial insurance products. Proven success leading profitable underwriting portfolios and driving growth initiatives. Experience working with carrier, reinsurance, and capital provider relationships. Experience leading underwriting teams and developing underwriting talent. Experience within pest control, environmental services, contractors, service industries, or related specialty program business strongly preferred.
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How We Support Our Teammates: Ryan Specialty seeks to offer our employees a comprehensive and best-in-class benefits package that helps them — and their family members — achieve their physical, financial, and emotional well-being goals. In addition to paid time off for company holidays, vacation, sick and personal days, Ryan offers paid parental leave, mental health services and more. The target salary range for this position is $168,000.00 - $210,000.00 annually. The wage range for this role considers many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, licensure and certification, business needs, and market demands. The pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
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