VP, Regional Underwriting Manager Midwest (Core Middle Market)

About the role

CNA is seeking a strategic and experienced underwriting leader to oversee and grow the Core Middle Market business in the Midwest region. This role offers the opportunity to shape business strategy, build trusted partnerships, and make a meaningful impact within an organization that values leadership, accountability, and long-term success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines.
• Full accountability and ownership for underwriting and achieving production and profitability goals for an assigned region.
• Works within delegated underwriting authority and guidelines to drive underwriting, operational, and transactional excellence throughout the underwriting chain and across the region.
• Delegates authority to subordinate underwriters and partners with enterprise Property and Casualty groups to govern referral thresholds, underwriting authority, and establish clear paths of accountability and ownership.
• Promotes profitable growth opportunities with agents and brokers through partnerships with SVP and VP level sales and production leaders.
• Leads, directs, and has full management accountability for staff in area of responsibility, emphasizing talent management, succession planning, and skill development.
• Drives implementation of strategic and operational objectives with significant impact on the short-term success of multiple products within a geographic region.
• Analyzes underwriting performance based on quarterly regional evaluations of profit, production, rate, retention, agency performance, and cross-sell opportunities.
• Provides results to members of the management team and develops plans to resolve issues.
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Mastery of underwriting discipline and knowledge in the insurance field.
• Broad understanding of critical issues in other related areas.
• Advanced communication skills for building consensus across area of influence.
• Strong leadership and management skills demonstrating integrity and professionalism.
• Ability to drive results by identifying and resolving significant problems within scope of responsibility.
• Senior level knowledge of the insurance industry, its products, and services.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 and other business-related software.
• Strong knowledge of assigned business line and insurance industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with Master’s preferred in a related discipline.
• Minimum of 12 years of related work experience, with seven years management experience.
• Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation preferred.

Benefits

CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional, and social wellbeing goals. For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, please visit cnabenefits.com.