Head of General Industries, East

At AXA XL we provide insurance products and services that are designed to meet unique and challenging exposures.

Our Middle Markets business focuses on mid-sized customers in the US Commercial P&C market. In this role you will be responsible for managing a team of underwriters and selling our Middle Market products across the Eastern Territory to support growing this business.

Essential responsibilities include:

• Manage a team of underwriters across the Eastern Territory
• Achieve new business premium and renewal rate/retention goals, working with actuarial and claims to successfully deliver results consistent with financial plan.
• Work alongside underwriters on referrals and developing their underwriting acumen
• Adhere to underwriting guidelines, underwriting authorities and referral requirements as needed to Chief Underwriting Officer and Referral Resources.
• Ensuring high quality service standards and compliance with all internal audit guidelines.
• Work collaboratively in a team environment, assisting underwriters, underwriting assistants and management team.
• Build strategic broker plan across the territory
• Travel throughout the territory for broker, client, and internal meetings.
• Developing, maintaining and servicing broker relationships within the distribution model. Coordinate with brokers to determine their marketing and education needs supported by AXA XL Middle Market.
• Acting as a representative of the company and our agents by attending internal/external company functions, agent sponsored and industry events.
• Cross-sell across Middle Market business unit to maximize deployment of AXA XL’s capital.

You will report to the Head of General Industries and Excess Casualty.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Extensive Middle Market insurance experience
• Willingness to lead a successful team of underwriters
• Robust insured and broker interaction in across the United States with the ability to effectively target current and prospective clients.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills to work with both internal teams and external brokers as you will work in a team environment.
• Outstanding organizational, time-management and multi-tasking skills.
• Outstanding comprehension and work experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Bachelor’s degree required with advanced education and / or professional designations including but not limited to CPCU, IIA, CRIS preferred but not required.
• Willingness to travel within assigned geographic territory
• Prior management experience preferred

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.

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.

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Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.

It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK…