Vice President Energy Underwriting

Candidate Profile

• 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 that win in the energy insurance market
• Presence and gravitas to represent the company in the marketplace as a credible, disciplined, and responsive underwriting leader
• 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 to meet with distribution partners, insureds, risk managers, and internal stakeholders
• Active engagement with energy market trends, data, competitive conditions, emerging risks, and loss activity — with the discipline to adjust strategy accordingly
• Initiative to advance our technology stack through close collaboration with our in-house 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

Pay

Salary range specific to for this role: $205,000-$275,000 + discretionary incentive bonus + benefits depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, experience, and qualifications.

Benefits

In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.

Schedule

The role will require some travel as needed to meet with distribution partners, insureds, risk managers, and internal stakeholders.