VP, Underwriter

RenaissanceRe is a leading writer of Property & Casualty Reinsurance. For over 25 years, we have helped customers and communities recover and build resilience through our industry-leading ability to understand risk, source efficient capital and rapidly pay claims.

Our global team shares a passion for solving our customers’ biggest problems through a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture that empowers employees and rewards creative thinking.

Summary

Title-VP, Underwriter

Serve as a senior, market-facing portfolio leader responsible for shaping and executing the business strategy for U.S. property (re)insurance with an emphasis on noncat exposures. Reporting to the SVP, Head of US Other Property, NonCat – US, own portfolio performance, set underwriting direction, and expand the franchise through high-impact client and broker partnerships. Lead the development of proprietary underwriting insights, influences capital deployment and risk appetite within assigned segments, and represents the firm externally as a thought leader on emerging trends and client solutions across Minneapolis, New York, London, Bermuda, and Zurich. Drive profitable growth by architecting market strategy, segment priorities, and product positioning across treaty and select facultative opportunities. In collaboration with actuarial, analytics, finance, and claims, establish pricing frameworks and portfolio guardrails, sponsors new internal models, and governs best practices, peer review standards, and escalation protocols. Personally originate, structure, and negotiate complex placements; lead executive-level client dialogues; and direct broker engagement strategies to deepen access, improve information flow, and secure favorable terms for long duration relationships.

Responsibilities

• Is accountable for building and managing high value client relationships through executive meetings, audits, and strategic planning sessions that strengthen transparency and performance.
• Curate differentiated solutions to client problems, integrating RenRe’s proprietary tools, data assets, and advisory capabilities to address coverage design, inflation and exposure shifts, supply chain vulnerabilities, and accumulations.
• Design and maintain portfolio- and deal level comparison frameworks that elevate decision quality and enable timely capital allocation.
• Champion a high-performance culture by leading, mentoring, and developing underwriting and analyst talent.
• Design and deliver training curricula spanning catastrophe and noncat modeling context, reinsurance pricing philosophies, and the interplay of actuarial, finance, and claims in underwriting outcomes.
• Recruit for growth, succession plan for critical roles, and provide clear performance management and coaching. Communicate regularly with the Leadership Team on portfolio posture, market dynamics, and execution against best practices, while providing early visibility into opportunities and threats that may warrant strategic pivots.
• Exemplify disciplined underwriting judgment, market influence, and enterprise leadership
• 25% domestic required: travel to meet with clients and brokers, varies depending on where client is based (all over U.S.), typically 2-3 nights at a time.

Education & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or business administration and five (5) years of experience in reinsurance risk analysis
• Must have work experience in each of the following:
•   using and enhancing proprietary property modelling and pricing tools in reinsurance industry, including actuarial pricing tools, complex risk systems, risk aggregation tools, and industry weather models;
•   reinsurance portfolio construction, including responsibility for portfolio rollup, reporting, and optimization and industrywide marketplace analysis and benchmarking; and
•  analyzing, modelling, and making technical risk decisions in reinsurance industry, experience in structuring reinsurance contracts, responsibility for underwriting emerging risk classes, and maintaining responsibility for production, marketing, analysis of property reinsurance, and oversight of team of analysts.

The fulltime base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $250,000 USD per year; base salary offered may vary based on job-related knowledge skills, and experience. The position is eligible for bonus and a comprehensive benefits package. This information is provided per the New York City Human Rights Law and applies to positions in New York City.   

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary: We offer a salary that matches industry standards and reflects your experience and skills.
• Health and Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans to keep you and your family healthy, including prescription and FSA/HSA. Additional supplemental coverages are available such as critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, commuter benefits and pet insurance. We also offer coverages under life insurance, AD&D, and business travel accident insurance. In addition, we provide reimbursement of individual memberships at fitness centers.
• Retirement Plans: For any 401(k) contributions up to 6% of your pay, we will match $1 for each dollar you invest up to the IRS annual compensation limit.
• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO policy including vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Professional Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and career growth through workshops, courses, and conferences.
• Employee Assistance Program and Health Advocate: Access to counseling and support services for personal and work-related issues and assistance in navigating the insurance world when faced with serious illness or injury and claims and billing issues.

*This position qualifies for RenRe North America Employee Services Inc.’s Employee Referral Program.*

Position location -1095 Avenue of the Americas, 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10036

Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.

We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.