Head of Financial Lines

Description:

The Head of Financial Lines will lead the team, based in Dubai. The selected candidate will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and accelerating AIG’s Financial Lines business across the region. This role will bring deep market expertise, strong commercial acumen and strategic leadership to build a high-performing Financial Lines portfolio, manage all Financial Lines Underwriting within GCC&NA, including the establishment, implementation and evaluation of production and profitability goals for Financial Lines.

How You Will Create An Impact

 

• Ensure that production growth targets across both: Direct and FAC RI operations are achieved.
• Provide leadership to take remedial action to address shortfalls in top line.
• Manage the bottom line: Loss and expense ratios and achieve profitability targets on combined and Accident year combined ratio.
• Play an active role in the development, supervision, negotiation and sign off of large programs by motivating limits and policy structures
• Keep abreast of market changes and trends. Provide strategic direction for new business / new product development.
• Ensure adherence to audit regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Set objectives for direct reports, provide input for objectives of matrix reports and ensure that staff objectives/ KPI's are aligned to achievement of business goals.
• Executive Leadership - report performance, provide strategy updates and share market developments
• Engagement with internal lines of business and external clients- Brokers / Agents - build and grow the business with brokers and agents claims and actuarial to understand the drivers of our losses
• Become part of the GCC&NA leadership team and the EMEA Financial Lines leadership team.
   

What You’ll Need To Succeed

 

• 10+ year of underwriting experience preferably focused on FL
• Knowledge of local regulations.
• Claims management
• Sound technical FL expert underwriting
• Portfolio Management.
• People management
• Customer Focus
• Drive for results
• Building effective teams and develop Talent.