Vice President,Entertainment Product Head Job New York New York USA,Management

Position :
Vice President, Entertainment Product Head

Reporting to :
Deputy CUO

Travel : 15-20%

Our consultants are recruiting for a dynamic Product Head to drive the profitable growth of an entertainment practice. Preferred focus and expertise in movie and television production including the rental house market.

Overall purpose and context of the job

The Product Head is a key and highly influential role within our underwriting management structure, empowered with broad responsibility for driving the profitable growth of a fast-growing portfolio, specializing in the unique needs of a wide range of businesses.

Working and collaborating with top-notch talent throughout the organization, you will be charged with leading the design and adoption of sustainable underwriting strategies that inspire our teams and honor our commitment to being a superior business partner to our customers and brokers.

Essential duties and responsibilities

Subject Matter Expert

S/he will apply subject-matter expertise to develop profitable underwriting strategies.

S/he will demonstrate a hunger for knowledge in all aspects of the entertainment marketplace and our customers in order to create and evolve nimble, innovative and best-in-class risk solutions in a clear and simple manner.

S/he will develop and evolve an effective technical underwriting guide (TUG) inclusive of smart and profit-minded risk appetite and parameters.

S/he will develop and evolve smart and profitable pricing model strategies.

S/he will develop, evolve and implement effective training collateral and skills assessment capabilities for your line of business.

Strategist / Steward of Profitable Growth

S/he will be responsible for collaborating with others to deliver the agreed top-and-bottom-line annual business plan -- a mutually shared objective with our field distribution leadership team as well as our direct-to-consumer distribution leadership team.

S/he will proactively monitor a suite of profitability performance metrics, and adjust our underwriting strategies in a timely manner as new, material opportunities and risks emerge.

S/he will proactively engage with multiple internal and external contacts to issue spot and stay on top of the latest trends, threats and opportunities in the entertainment marketplace, including with our highly experienced claims attorneys and analysts, and adjust underwriting strategies and tactics accordingly to address this new and material information or event.

S/he will develop and implement best practices to ensure underwriting rigor, technical compliance, quality controls and regulatory compliance within our underwriting files.

S/he will conduct peer reviews and apply quality control measures on underwriting files.

S/he will be the primary referral point for the field and design, manage and deploy an intelligent strategy for the deployment of underwriting authority grants.

Inspirational Leader

S/he will embrace the inspirational role you play; inspire and support the success of our underwriters by giving them a clear sense of purpose, and empower them to make smart underwriting decisions through best-in-class training, responsive coaching and guidance on complex accounts.

S/he will drive the implementation of our underwriting strategy through a high-performance staff in New York and Los Angeles.

S/he will build excitement around the product and transfer knowledge through underwriter engagement.

Marketing and Brand Builder

S/he will assist in building our brand as a specialist insurer that is passionate and dedicated to the marketplace by providing thought leadership as the “face” of the business at industry events and in industry publications, and providing compelling insights to our underwriters in order to help them win in…