Primary Casualty Lead

Locations: Chicago, IL or Remote

HDI Global Insurance Company is a commercial property and casualty insurer headquartered in Chicago, IL. As a wholly owned subsidiary of HDI Global SE, we manage the industrial lines division of the Talanx Group. Our extensive portfolio of products and services, combined with an international network of local insurers, enables us to offer comprehensive domestic and global insurance solutions for U.S.-based multinational companies.

With Xcelerate29, HDI is shaping its future by becoming a Trusted Global Player, achieving Next-level Excellence, and building a Forward-thinking Organization. This direction helps HDI Global lead the profitable growth game as a globally connected business, raise the bar every day through stronger underwriting, claims, and investment performance, and win tomorrow by starting today with a lean, fast, resilient, and future-ready organization. Together, these priorities support profitable growth, sustainable profitability, global consistency, digital transformation, AI acceleration, smart cost leadership, and stronger collaboration across teams and markets. They also reflect our focus on being a workplace of choice by building future-ready workforce where people.

• Develop and execute the national E&S Primary Casualty underwriting, marketing, production, and portfolio strategy.
• Establish underwriting appetite, authority frameworks, pricing expectations, coverage positions, referral standards, and governance requirements.
• Lead underwriting and referral decisions for highly complex, high-severity, or strategically significant casualty risks.
• Maintain ownership of portfolio performance, including production, retention, rate adequacy, business mix, concentration management, deployed capacity, and profitability.
• Monitor market conditions, legal and regulatory developments, social inflation, litigation trends, and emerging casualty exposures.
• Conduct portfolio reviews and provide strategic recommendations and performance updates to senior leadership.
• Maintain direct underwriting responsibility for selected strategic accounts, as appropriate.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Primary Casualty underwriting team.
• Establish staffing strategies, succession planning initiatives, and talent development programs.
• Recruit, coach, and support underwriters while fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture.
• Promote underwriting discipline, accountability, and continuous professional growth.

• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with wholesale brokers, clients, and strategic market partners.
• Represent HDI Global at broker meetings, client engagements, industry conferences, and market forums.
• Strengthen HDI Global's market presence through relationship-building and thought leadership

• Lead product development initiatives and identify opportunities for market expansion.
• Support enhancements to pricing tools, data quality, technology platforms, and underwriting processes.
• Partner closely with Claims, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Legal, Product, Operations, Finance, Compliance, and senior leadership teams to execute business objectives.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives that improve underwriting effectiveness and operational efficiency.

• Significant commercial casualty underwriting experience, including substantial E&S Primary Casualty expertise.
• Demonstrated success developing underwriting strategy and managing profitable casualty portfolios.
• Proven leadership experience, including recruiting, coaching, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
• Strong knowledge of primary casualty exposures, including General Liability, Products Liability, and Liquor Liability.
• Deep understanding of casualty loss drivers, contractual risk transfer, indemnification provisions, social inflation, litigation trends, and emerging exposures.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, communication, and relationship management skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple initiatives in a dynamic underwriting environment.
• Commitment to underwriting discipline, documentation quality, data integrity, and customer service excellence.
• Executive leadership capabilities with experience influencing business strategy and market direction.
• Established relationships within the wholesale brokerage community and insurance industry.
• Education in Risk Management, Insurance, Business, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant industry experience.
• Professional insurance designations such as CPCU, ARM, ARe, AU, or similar credentials are highly valued.