Head of Middle Market, Americas

Head Of Middle Market, Americas

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it. How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Our ambition is to unlock a more sustainable and prosperous tomorrow by helping businesses navigate the world's risks. In the Americas, we'll live up to that ambition by delivering value far beyond the insurance policies we provide. We're confronting our clients' risk management challenges by finding solutions that further their strategic goals and help them build more sustainable, thriving businesses.

As the Head of Middle Market, Americas you will embody these values, lead the Middle Market Underwriting unit, be responsible for developing and executing on the Americas strategy for this segment, while working with the region's other underwriting business leaders and partners and our Global Underwriting Office. This role has full P&L responsibility and reports directly to the CEO Americas, as part of the Leadership team in the Americas.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Development and successful execution of a strategy that returns profitable growth in the Middle Market segment by delivering on all four of our strategic drivers: solutions that matter most, valued beyond the policy, data that deepens relationships and focused; fit and fast.
• Growing the unit organically by building the critical market assets (product portfolio, distribution network, operating platform) as well as looking into other ways to accelerate our organic growth.
• Provide strategic direction and data driven decisions for your team on risk assessment and portfolio management to drive underwriting excellence, profitable growth, and optimizing our performance.
• Execute long-term underwriting goals and a cycle management strategy to enable outstanding underwriting performance and profitable growth. Set and achieve qualitative and quantitative targets (technical and operational) for the underwriting team.
• Foster a culture of innovation within the underwriting team and across the organization to proactively address emerging risks and leverage new technologies.
• Ensure the effective and inspirational leadership and management of the underwriting team and create a high-performance culture.
• Align the underwriting proposition with the Company's brokers and clients / develop new relationships within the market to increase production and profit for AXA XL. Represent AXA XL in industry forums and engage with key stakeholders internally and externally to enhance relationships and business opportunities.
• Build and promote AXA XL's brand, underwriting, risk services, claims and client experience leadership in the external insurance market and take full advantage of the Group's capital standing and global reach.
• Lead continuous underwriting operational improvement/transformation and help maintain a sound governance framework for the business.
• Develop productive relationships with the AXA XL and AXA Group leadership to help promote a shared view of the performance and potential of the Americas Programs and E&S segment, and the investments and strategies necessary to succeed.
• Ensure that the business adheres to underwriting governance / compliance principles and regulatory standards.
• Drive the identification and prioritization of opportunities and allocate appropriate levels of resource to deliver high levels of customer service.
• Develop and implement underwriting strategies that optimize expense ratios, monitoring and analyzing underwriting expenses, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and collaborating with finance and operations teams to control and reduce…