UW Operations Lead-Cyber & Political Violence

Mosaic Insurance

$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of underwriting operational activities experience in North American insurance agencies, especially with offshore operations.
  • Expertise in cyber and political violence insurance lines.
  • Experience managing complex operations within CY and PV products.
  • Previous operational role in a commercial/specialty insurance agency, preferably as a Lloyd's coverholder.
  • Strong collaborative skills with the ability to work effectively with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead underwriting operations for Cyber and Political Violence product lines, managing policy lifecycle and systems.
  • Oversee agency underwriting operations, ensuring efficient processing and delivery.
  • Serve as the main contact for operational issues, addressing concerns from stakeholders or customers.
  • Coordinate with international teams to maintain governance and effective communication across operations.
  • Conduct assessments to enhance operational processes and offshore capabilities.
  • Facilitate meetings to review underwriting activities and operational performance.
  • Ensure the quality and timeliness of offshore operation deliveries through performance management.

Benefits

  • Supportive and collaborative entrepreneurial culture.
  • Comprehensive total rewards compensation package.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
Full Job Description
Job Spec

Mosaic is looking for a North America Agency - UW Operations Lead. This position is responsible for running day-to-day UW Operations for Mosaic's Cyber (CY) and Political Violence (PV) product lines, including management of offshore underwriting operations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Underwriting Operations CY and PV product lines, including policy lifecycle support, system implementations, workflows, procedures, reporting, etc
  • Provide day to day management of all aspects of agency UW operations for Cyber and Political Violence
  • Overall ownership of the delivery of agency UW operations for CY and PV lines of business
  • Liasion with North America UW teams to deliver UW operational processing, provide updates on operational performance and address queries/questions
  • Utilize technical expertise to learn processing systems and workflows. Resolve complex queries, ensure underwriting operational requirements and rules are provided, followed, and documented in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Coordinate with International Agency Operations counterparts to ensure global continuity in governance, process, and communication, as well as managing expectations and deliverables to internal and external partners
  • Act as key point of contact for mitigation of any operational issues/concerns raised by stakeholders or customers. This role will also be the key contact person for areas outside of operations (e.g. Finance, Credit Control, etc)
  • Responsible for management and performance of offshore operations as relates to service levels/KPIs, quality and timeliness of delivery, issue resolution, corrections, audit and benchmarking
  • Act as point of escalation for all UW offshore operational issues for North America Cyber and Political Violence lines for US, Bermuda, Canada
  • Undertake review and development of optimal process flow. Identify and implement additional opportunities to best maximize and leverage offshore operations capabilities
  • Facilitate regular planning with UW teams to determine future resourcing requirements
  • Conduct monthly UW meeting to review:
    • Prior month-end reporting (review through month end report)
    • Current status of submissions, binds, endorsements, issuance
    • Trends in queries (focusing on specific queries that need UW assistance)
    • Trends in how processing requests are received (prior to inception, within one month, within two months, etc)
  • Perform quality checks on sample transactions processed by offshore teams
  • Develop necessary corrective action plans, as needed, related to both business requirements and UW operations performance and delivery quality
  • Participate in projects to improve/automate operations, acting as subject matter expert for Cyber and Political Violence product lines.


Skills, Experience and Education
  • Seven-plus years processing/supervising underwriting operational activities within a North American insurance agency (e.g. submissions, clearance, binding/booking, etc), particularly with offshore operations, is essential
  • Operational experience with cyber and political violence lines of business is essential
  • Experience with complex operations for CY and PV insurance lines and products
  • Operations experience within a commercial/specialty Insurance agency, acting as Lloyd's coverholder is preferred
  • Ability to conceptualize and execute innovative plans impacting overall efficiency and productivity
  • Ability to work collaboratively with a geographically distributed team and quickly understand and adopt to new culturval norms/standards
  • Ability to effectively manage offshore operations and drive maximum value out of relationship
  • Ability to work with all levels of employees and management
  • Self-motivated individual capable of working towards and meeting deadlines
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity in young and maturing organization
  • Proficiency in all Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PPT, Outlook, SharePoint, etc)


Mosaic offers
  • Knowledge-driven, supportive, and collaborative entrepreneurial culture
  • Very competitive total rewards compensation package, reflecting growth of business
  • Opportunity to build and grow with the business


The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors.The salary this position is $100,000 - $130,000.

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