Head of Technical Underwriting

Overview

In this senior leadership role, you will own the technical underwriting framework and ensure effective governance across MGA partnerships, delegated authorities and reinsurance structures. You report to the Chief Underwriting Officer and drive adherence to underwriting guidelines, wordings governance, and risk controls. You will lead audits, exposure management and backing tests to support the business plan, regulatory compliance and back-to-back coverage. This is a strategic, impact-focused role shaping underwriting governance and portfolio performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and enforcement of the underwriting guidelines framework
• Oversee technical underwriting oversight for MGA partners and delegated underwriting arrangements
• Head MGA underwriting audits and expert reviews within binding authority parameters
• Manage bordereaux exception reporting and identify risks outside approved authorities
• Maintain repository of approved policy wordings and govern wording processes
• Collaborate with Portfolio Underwriters, CUO and reinsurers to manage referrals and ensure back-to-back coverage
• Lead exposure and clash management to keep risks within appetite and support reporting
• Support due diligence for new MGA appointments and partner renewals
• Assess underwriting performance across MGAs and wider portfolio and implement changes
• Support adequacy of loss caps and collaborate on reinsurance arrangements with legal counsel
• Ensure alignment of MGA/product-level arrangements with underlying reinsurance protections
• Own underwriting governance, audit and action tracking with timely completion
• Deputise for the CUO at Board and governance meetings

Key requirements

• Significant strategic underwriting and reinsurance management experience in the London Market
• Strong experience with delegated authorities, MGAs and binding authority arrangements
• Deep understanding of technical underwriting governance, controls and policy wordings
• Experience in exposure management, portfolio oversight and reinsurance structures

• Strategic leadership and people management
• Stakeholder engagement and influencing across cross-functional teams
• Strong communication and governance discipline
• Technical underwriting governance and controls
• Policy wording governance and repository management
• Experience with delegated authorities and binding authority frameworks

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