Vice President, North America Insurance Placement

About the role

The Vice President, North America Insurance Placement is accountable for leading and executing insurance placement strategy across Revantage and Blackstone Real Estate's North American portfolio. This role is critical to ensuring scalable, cost-effective, and lender-compliant insurance programs while leveraging Revantage and Blackstone buying power and insurer partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Lead all North America insurance placements, including property, casualty, and specialty programs, ensuring alignment with portfolio risk strategy and financial objectives.

• Own the end-to-end placement lifecycle, from market strategy and underwriting submissions through binding, documentation, and post placement refinement.

• Leverage portfolio scale and claims data to negotiate with carriers and brokers to optimize pricing, coverage terms, limits, and structures.

• Maintain senior level relationships with key insurers and brokerage partners across North America, ensuring stability, performance, and innovation.

• Develop and continuously improve placement processes, governance, and documentation standards to support scalability and transaction efficiency.

• Collaborate closely with claims, analytics, and RMIS teams to incorporate loss trends, exposure data, and performance metrics into placement strategy.

• Advises portfolio companies on coverage adequacy, risk transfer options, and contract insurance requirements, including construction and development projects.

• Define and report key placement metrics, including premium trends, renewal outcomes, insurer diversification, and coverage enhancements, for senior leadership.

• Mentor and develop team members, fostering execution discipline, commercial acumen, and continuous improvement.

• Educate, advise, and counsel portfolio company management, property staff, and business partners where necessary to reduce or transfer risk.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

• Minimum 10-15+ years of insurance, risk management, or brokerage experience, with significant exposure to real estate portfolios and complex placements.

• Demonstrated expertise in Property & Casualty insurance structures, lender requirements, and portfolio level program design.

• Proven ability to lead negotiations, manage brokers and carriers, and influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to translate technical insurance topics into clear business and P&L implications.

• Strong commitment to meeting stakeholder expectations and thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.

• Exceptional organizational and project management skills.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and comfort working with RMIS platforms and underwriting data.

• MBA, JD, or professional designations (CPCU, ARM) preferred.