Commercial Surety Regional Manager - Central

About The Role:

Underwrite and manage the Central region for the Commercial Surety business unit. Overall responsibilities include approving all commercial and commercial contract surety bonds within your authority, leading a team of underwriters, managing agency relationships and appointments, marketing for new business, and budgeting and planning for the region. The goal of this role is to achieve minimum loss ratio and maximum profitability for the region.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage a team of underwriters.
• Develop a one-to-three-year regional strategic plan (including revenue, commissions, expenses, and claims).
• Manage the expense budget for the central region.
• Ensure profitable underwriting decisions through appropriate financial analysis and credit review.
• Review and approve new and renewal business within parameters of granted authority.
• Maintain current underwriting files in accordance with the Swiss Re Surety Group Procedure Manual for Commercial Surety.
• Enhance existing agency relationships while identifying and securing new agency relationships.
• Maintain a strong working relationship with internal departments such as Claims, Legal, Operations, and Accounting.
• Ensure strong visibility by participating and attending external and internal functions, including Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Surety Group regional meetings, as required.
• Manage any special projects as delegated by the Zone leader.

About You:

• Bachelor's Degree with emphasis in business, preferably finance or accounting, or, the following years of relevant experience in commercial surety underwriting.
• 10+ years of surety underwriting experience.
• Strong marketing skills and ability to obtain new business and work with commercial clients.

• Experience managing a team.
• Strong competency in quantitative and financial analysis.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Competent computer skills including knowledge of Excel and Word.
• Ability to travel up to 35%.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $156,000 to $246,000. The specific salary offered for any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

Swiss Re has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office three days per week. The ideal location for this role is Schaumburg, Ill. Other locations within the central region would be entertained.