Assistant Vice President – Marine – Senior Underwriting Specialist (Toronto/Vancouver)

September 5, 2025

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Title:

AVP, Head of Marine / Toronto

Company:

Everest Insurance Company Of Canada

Job Category:

Underwriting

Job Description:

HEAD OF MARINE UNERWRITING – CANADA

At Everest, we hold ourselves accountable to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in our people, our skills, and our ideas. We prioritize building a workforce that spans cultures, backgrounds, and experiences at every level. This is a priority we bring to life through the diverse representation of leaders and colleagues across Everest. We view this as a strength and believe that our work culture is enhanced when diverse groups of people come together.

In this newly created position, you will report to the Head of Energy, Construction, and Marine of Everest Insurance Company of Canada (‘EvCan’, ‘Company’) with an informal matrix to the Head of Marine – International in London. You will be a key member of EvCan’s underwriting leadership team. Alongside your peers, you will foster a culture of underwriting excellence, entrepreneurship, transparency, collaboration, and candor. You will lead the launch of the Marine underwriting department in Canada and the execution of the department’s key objectives. You will be instrumental in maintaining excellent distribution and customer relationships, driving the profitable growth of EvCan’s Marine portfolio.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Working with local leadership and global product leadership, launch the Canadian Marine department.

  • Assist in expanding the Marine portfolio in line with Company plans whilst maintaining a focus on bottom-line underwriting profit and delivery of Everest internal plans.

  • Assist in creating & expanding the current product range to allow Everest to compete with the market leaders in the sector.

  • Play a key part in the preparation of the business plan, statistics, and documentation as required.

  • Monitor and keep abreast of changes in underwriting, regulation, and compliance.

  • Represent EvCan as a business leader at meeting with brokers, clients, and internally as required.

  • Refer risks as appropriate that exceed prescribed underwriting authority.

  • Assist in developing a marketing plan whilst maintaining and expanding existing broker relationships, developing new relationships where this is consistent with the objectives of the business plan.

  • Liaise with the Claims Manager on claims related issues and participate in

    Company

    Everest Re Group,

    Location

    Toronto

    Country

    Canada

    Salary

    150.000

    URL

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