Allianz Life Insurance

Portfolio Solutions Risk Lead

Allianz Life Insurance$97K — $188K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10+ years of underwriting or portfolio management experience across multi-line business
  • Strong analytical skills to evaluate performance and volatility trends
  • Experience with delegated authority structures or program business
  • Solid underwriting judgment with commercial acumen
  • Ability to influence and collaborate with various stakeholders
  • Familiarity with AI tools for efficiency and data-driven decisions

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate delegated authority portfolios across property, casualty, and specialty
  • Analyze exposure data and historical performance for portfolio assessment
  • Assess underwriting strategy and controls within each program
  • Support structuring of delegated authority and program business opportunities
  • Evaluate participation strategies and pricing adequacy with actuarial teams
  • Provide underwriting recommendations aligned with risk appetite
  • Collaborate with brokers, MGAs, and underwriting teams for opportunity assessments

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model promoting work-life balance
  • Generous compensation package with performance-based bonuses
  • Opportunities for career development and lifelong learning
  • Flexible working arrangements for personal circumstances
  • Enhanced health and wellbeing coverage including private healthcare
  • Support for career breaks and parental leave benefits
  • Engagement in social responsibility and sustainability initiatives
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Portfolio Solutions Risk Lead to join our Team. This will be a hybrid role based in O'Fallon, Chicago, Alpharetta, or New York.

Your Team

Be part of our Portfolio Solutions team in North America, where we focus on evaluating, structuring, and managing delegated authority and program business across multiple lines of business. Our team thrives on collaboration, analytical excellence, and disciplined portfolio underwriting to drive profitable growth.

The Impact You Will Have

Reporting to the Regional Head of Portfolio Solutions and Delegated Authority in North America, the Portfolio Solutions Underwriter will play a key role in supporting profitable growth through disciplined underwriting, analytical assessment, and effective collaboration across underwriting, actuarial, distribution, claims, finance, and operations teams.

This role requires a strong portfolio mindset with the ability to evaluate multi-line business, assess performance trends, and support strategic underwriting decisions across complex delegated authority portfolios.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

Portfolio Underwriting and Risk Assessment
  • Evaluate delegated authority portfolios across multiple lines of business, including property, casualty, and specialty
  • Analyze exposure data, historical performance, and loss trends to assess portfolio quality and performance
  • Assess underwriting strategy, controls, and consistency within each program
  • Evaluate business at both individual program and broader portfolio levels


Deal Evaluation and Structuring
  • Support evaluation and structuring of delegated authority and program business opportunities
  • Assess participation strategies, underwriting considerations, and portfolio fit
  • Partner with actuarial and modeling teams to evaluate pricing adequacy and expected performance
  • Provide underwriting recommendations aligned with risk appetite and profitability objectives


Stakeholder Engagement
  • Work with brokers, program administrators, MGAs, and underwriting teams to assess opportunities
  • Participate in deal discussions and negotiations
  • Collaborate across underwriting, actuarial, finance, claims, operations, and governance teams


What You'll Bring to the Role
  • 5-10+ years of underwriting, delegated authority, program, or portfolio management experience across multiple lines of business
  • Strong analytical and portfolio management skills with the ability to evaluate business performance and volatility trends
  • Experience working with delegated authority structures, program business, or complex multi-line portfolios
  • Strong underwriting judgment and commercial acumen
  • Ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
  • Ability to utilize AI tools to support day-to-day tasks, improve efficiency, and contribute to data-driven decision-making.


The annualized base pay range for this role is $97,739 to $147,652 for O'Fallon, MO, $ 107,913 - $163,096 for Chicago & Alpharetta and $124,609 - $188,330 for New York. The annual base salary range represents a nationwide market range. The actual salary for this position may be above and will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role, the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate. The base pay is just one component of the AzC total compensation package. As part of our comprehensive compensation and highly rated benefits programs, employees are also eligible for annual performance-based cash incentive awards.

99690 | Underwriting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | Permanent

What's in it for you?

Let's care about everything that makes you, you

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

Let's care for your financial wellbeing

We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

Let's care for your opportunities to progress

From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.

Let's care for life's twists and turns

From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back.

Let's care for our society and our planet

With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients.

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About Allianz Life Insurance

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is a leading provider of retirement solutions, including fixed and variable annuities and life insurance for individuals. The company is part of Allianz SE, a global financial services company that is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America was founded in 1896 and has been providing financial protection and retirement solutions to Americans for over 125 years. The company has a strong commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability, and has been recognized for its efforts in these areas. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is a subsidiary of Allianz Life Insurance Company of New York, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz SE.
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