Head of Construction

About DUAL

Founded in 1998, DUAL has built a reputation as a specialist underwriting group and the market of choice for insurance intermediaries around the world. That’s how we have become one of the world’s largest international underwriting agencies with US$3.5 of GWP.

DUAL is part of Howden, an international insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. The Group was founded in 1994 and now has divisions in broking and underwriting, operates in 55 territories and employs over 18,000 people handling US$38bn of premium on behalf of clients.

People : 1700

Countries : 21

Role Overview

Reporting into the Chief Underwriting Officer, DUAL UK, as the Head of Construction your primary responsibility is to lead the underwriting strategy and appetite for the DUAL UK Construction account, ensuring that capacity is retained and attracted by maintaining excellent carrier relationships and delivering the required business performance.

Your role includes developing and growing the existing DUAL Construction account as well as driving the development and expansion of wider regional underwriting capabilities. This involves spearheading underwriting strategy, providing guidance on regional case underwriting decisions as needed, and ensuring continuous improvement in underwriting practices.

To establish and maintain underwriting standards and authorities and to demonstrate clear and compelling leadership, championing solution led underwriting approaches.

Key responsibilities

• Set line of business strategy, risk appetite, and pricing requirements.
• Provide input into annual Business Planning activities.
• Report on portfolio performance against plan and forecast future outcomes.
• Monitor portfolio performance and adjust strategy to meet business plans.
• Ensure appropriate underwriting governance authority framework is in place and embedded.
• Ensure adherence to capacity provider governance framework and meet audit requirements.
• Actively support underwriting teams to write business, including involvement in case solutions and broker relationships.
• Respond to claims patterns and adjust reserves to maintain optimal portfolio performance.
• Stay aware of emerging risks and take necessary action.
• Establish appropriate underwriting training and development.

Key skills and attributes

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define. At DUAL, we value diversity – there is no one DUAL type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us :

Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new

We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges

We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

Reasonable adjustments

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at DUAL to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours

If you're excited by this role but have some doubts about whether it’s the right fit for you, send us your application – if your profile fits the role’s criteria, we will be in touch to assist in helping to get you set up with any reasonable adjustments you may require.

Permanent