Underwriting Quality & Controls Manager

** About the Role
** The Admitted Underwriting Quality & Controls Manager is a highly visible leadership role, responsible for shaping and elevating PURE’s admitted underwriting practice. This leader serves as the architect of our underwriting quality framework - transforming insights from across field underwriting into meaningful action that strengthens execution, sharpens standards, and fuels sustainable, profitable growth.

Reporting to the AVP, Underwriting Quality & Technical Standards within the Underwriting & Product Excellence (UPE) Team, this role offers a unique platform to directly influence the future of PURE’s underwriting practice. The role partners closely with field and home office leaders to ensure underwriting philosophy and delegated authority are clear and adhered to and reinforces a culture of continuous improvement by identifying education opportunities and celebrating underwriting success, while ensuring underwriting adherence to key controls and regulatory requirements.

This is an ideal opportunity for a high-performing underwriter seeking to broaden their impact, influencing underwriting excellence at scale, strengthening selection discipline, and helping define what “great underwriting” looks like across the organization.
** What You’ll Do
**** Lead and Evolve PURE’s Underwriting Quality Framework
*** Set the strategic agenda for underwriting quality reviews, identifying themes and focus areas aligned with business priorities, emerging risk trends, and underwriting strategy.
* Own and evolve the Admitted Underwriting Quality Review Program to ensure it delivers high-quality, balanced, and actionable insights.
* Deliver monthly Quality Insights across New Business and Portfolio Management (renewals, endorsements, etc.), highlighting execution trends, celebrating underwriting excellence, and surfacing opportunities for refinement.
* Translate findings into meaningful recommendations that inform underwriting education, resource clarification, and process improvement initiatives.
* Partner with Field Leadership to ensure clear follow-through on action items and continuous improvement.
** Build and Lead a High-Performing Audit Network
*** Recruit, develop, and lead a team of volunteer underwriting auditors across regions.
* Provide coaching and calibration to ensure audits are thoughtful, consistent, and aligned with underwriting standards.
* Create a meaningful development experience for auditors while maintaining high-quality review outputs.
* Foster a culture of constructive feedback, shared learning, and underwriting pride.
** Shape and Safeguard Underwriting Authority
*** Serve as steward of the Admitted Underwriting Authority framework, ensuring authority limits evolve alongside underwriting experience, business complexity, and risk appetite.
* Align delegated authority structure with underwriting development pathways to support efficient decision-making while maintaining strong controls.
* Oversee authority delegation governance, including verifying authority statements are appropriately signed, documented, and aligned with PURE Online permissions.
* Ensure seamless technology enablement of authority rules, including development and maintenance of authority logic within Sapiens Decision.
* Partner cross-functionally to eliminate gaps or overlaps in authority between underwriting and adjacent functions.
** Strengthen Governance & Represent Underwriting in Enterprise Forums
*** Represent Underwriting in internal and external audit initiatives, serving as a trusted partner to the Internal Audit team.
* Influence internal audit focus areas to align with underwriting priorities and emerging risk considerations and drive post-audit action items to strengthen underwriting execution.
* Oversee quarterly underwriting authority and quality control certifications in accordance with JSOX requirements.
* Coordinate underwriting responses to annual Tokio Marine audits, reinsurance audits, regulatory inquiries, and market conduct exams.
* Ensure underwriting governance processes remain robust, streamlined, and aligned with enterprise standards.
** Drive Continuous Improvement Across the Underwriting…