Underwriting Director (Excess Casualty)

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Position Overview

The Regional Underwriting Director, Excess Casualty will be a key member of the ICW Specialty’s newly launched Excess Casualty team catering exclusively to wholesale brokers in the E&S Marketplace. This director will be responsible for executing underwriting strategy, driving profitable growth, and building a best-in-class team of underwriters. As a visible market leader, the director will cultivate strong wholesaler relationships while ensuring consistent underwriting discipline and governance across the portfolio. This role combines deep technical underwriting expertise with data-driven portfolio management.

Equally important, this leader will be a cultural ambassador—fostering collaboration, inclusivity, accountability, and innovation across ICW Specialty. Success will be measured not only by portfolio performance, but by the ability to attract, develop, and inspire top underwriting talent while embodying ICW’s values of integrity, teamwork, and growth.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Market Leadership

• Continue to refine and execute the underwriting strategy for Excess Casualty, aligning with ICW Specialty’s multi-year growth objectives.

• Ensure marketplace is clear on appetite, product design, and distribution strategy across middle market and large account segments.

• Build a profitable portfolio that aligns with the strategic business plan, goals and objectives.

• Identify opportunities for continued product innovation and differentiation, including niche industries, emerging risks, and new solutions for wholesale brokers.

• Represent ICW Specialty externally with brokers, clients, and reinsurers; act as a thought leader and brand ambassador in the marketplace.

• Gather pertinent competitive and market information to assist in developing recommendations to evaluating new business and product development.

Underwriting & Portfolio Management

• Oversee underwriting execution across all accounts, ensuring adherence to guidelines, pricing adequacy, and governance controls.

• Manage portfolio performance with accountability for profitability, risk selection, and portfolio balance (by industry, geography, attachment, and limits).

• Identify trends, emerging risks, and opportunities for improvement or innovation.

• Partner with actuarial, claims, and reinsurance colleagues to maintain strong analytics, pricing discipline, and portfolio insights.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, underwriting audits, and corporate governance standards.

Team Leadership & Management

• Build, manage, and mentor a team of underwriters and underwriting assistants, fostering an environment of learning, accountability, and empowerment.

• Set clear performance goals, provide coaching and development, and hold team members accountable to underwriting excellence.

• Model and reinforce a culture where accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation thrive.

• Actively recruit and retain top underwriting talent, with a focus on diverse perspectives and growth mindset.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with IT, Operations, and Finance to design and optimize the underwriting tech stack, workflow efficiency, and data capture.

• Serve as a bridge between the underwriting team and broader ICW Specialty leadership, ensuring transparency, alignment, and shared accountability.

Candidate Profile

Experience & Expertise

• Bachelors degree required.

• Minimum 10-12 years of underwriting and leadership experience in casualty insurance, with deep expertise in Excess Casualty.

• Proven track record of leading underwriting teams and managing profitable portfolios across multiple industries and account sizes.

• Established relationships with wholesalers, with a reputation of credibility, urgency with a get things done attitude.

• Strong grasp of underwriting governance, analytics, reinsurance, and regulatory requirements.

• Experience building and scaling new teams or product lines is highly preferred.

Leadership & Cultural Fit

• Collaborative: Thrives in a team-first culture, values input from colleagues, and prioritizes shared success.

• Inclusive: Actively seeks diverse perspectives and fosters belonging within the team and organization.

• Accountable: Demonstrates integrity, transparency, and ownership for decisions and outcomes.

• Growth Mindset: Embraces innovation, continuous learning, and adaptation in a fast-evolving market.

• People-Centric: Invests in the growth, development, and well-being of the team, balancing performance with humanity.

• Market Presence: Inspires trust with brokers, reinsurers, and clients through authenticity, expertise, and professionalism.

The current range for this position is

This range is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at ICW Group, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors unique to each candidate, including experience, education and the location of the role and considers employees performing substantially similar work.

WHY JOIN ICW GROUP?
• Challenging work and the ability to make a difference
• You will have a voice and feel a sense of belonging
• We offer a competitive benefits package, with generous medical, dental, and vision plans as well as 401K retirement plans and company match

• Bonus potential for all positions

• Paid Time Off with an accrual rate of 5.23 hours per pay period (equal to 17 days per year)
• 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Want to continue learning? We’ll support you 100%

ICW Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. ICW Group will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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