AVP - Lead Liability UnderwritingInsurance

You are the AVP - Lead Liability Underwriting in the Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) department located in Vikhroli, Mumbai. Your work schedule is Monday to Friday, reporting to the Head of GC&C India with matrix reporting to the Regional Head of LOB, Asia. With a preference for the General Insurance industry, your role involves leading the development and execution of underwriting strategy within the Engineering or relevant commercial lines portfolio under GC&C India. Your responsibilities include formulating and implementing a structured underwriting and portfolio strategy, defining and monitoring KPIs, ensuring technical adherence to risk appetite and operational standards, leading market-facing underwriting activities, and achieving sustainable portfolio performance. You will be responsible for owning the full P&L of the LOB, achieving top-line and bottom-line business objectives, implementing corrective actions based on performance, strengthening relationships with stakeholders, driving adherence to technical guidelines, monitoring financial KPIs, controlling data accuracy, utilizing treaties for profitability, ensuring governance and regulatory compliance, building and leading a high-performing team, driving talent development, fostering a culture of collaboration, and creating a talent pipeline for succession planning. To be successful in this role, you should have a graduate/postgraduate degree in a quantitative discipline, professional insurance qualifications, proven success in underwriting and managing profitable portfolios, experience in managing country-level portfolios, exposure to global business environments, deep understanding of underwriting, risk selection, and portfolio management, strong knowledge of local insurance market and competitive landscape, excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and coaching abilities, high analytical, communication, and presentation skills, team-building and leadership qualities, proficiency in English, and willingness to travel as required.,