Role Title: Underwriting Strategy Business Manager, LII UK & MENA

Division: LII UK & MENA

Department: Chief Executive’s Office

Location: London, United Kingdom

Type: Permanent

About the Role:

Senior individual contributor reporting to the Head of Business Alignment & Strategy to coordinate underwriting performance and portfolio strategy into high-quality governance materials, track actionable initiatives, obtain metrics for monitoring frameworks, and strengthened cross-functional alignment.

About the Department & Team:

The CUO’s office supports the LII UK & MENA CUO execute the region’s portfolio, underwriting governance, legal entities and strategy. The LII UK & MENA CUO is the Active Underwriter and CUO for LMAL 4472. This CUO’s office works closely with the Head of Portfolio Management, UW Governance, Wordings, and Actuarial departments. This department principally enhances the CUO’s alignment across the UK & MENA business, UW leadership, committees, and other governance forums.

The Chief Executive’s Office supports the LII UK & MENA President run the Liberty’s UK, Ireland, Lloyd’s, and Dubai $2.5bn GWP region and strategy. The LII UK & MENA President is the CEO of Liberty’s Lloyd’s Syndicate, LMAL 4472, in addition to UK Branch Manager of Liberty’s Luxembourg-based Entity. The CEO’s Office directly supports the UK & MENA Executive Team, and Strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

As a go-to resource for the CUO’s office, own the delivery of key management and board-level materials aligned to underwriting performance, strategy, risk, and outwards reinsurance
Play a pivotal role to further enabling the quality of decision-making and discussion at UW leadership forums and UK & MENA executive forums
Directly support the execution of strategic initiatives sponsored by the CUO, enabling broader accountability of initiative outcomes and milestones. These include but are not limited to: (1) Delivering a differentiated Market Leadership & Proposition by sustaining a clear market leadership proposition across both Liberty’s open market and portfolio solutions business; (2) Delivering MENA Acceleration toward its 2030 aspiration by defending its existing lead propositions, new products, and new geographies
Function as a dedicated resource to enable the effectiveness of the UK & MENA Executive by anticipating risks, monitoring progress, resolving blockers, and embedding lessons learned for continuous improvement.
Support the execution of the UK & MENA 2030 strategy and discrete strategic projects or analysis and the facilitation of strategy workshops / offsites. These include but are not limited to: (1) Delivering Strategic Workforce Planning, anticipating the future of the UK & MENA’s portfolio in response to the bifurcation of the London Market; (2) Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, providing structured solutions, foster an integrated business unit culture, and progressively assuming ownership of initiative execution.
Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role, and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy, as they relate to your role, is core to LSM's commitment to our Liberty Values, placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity. LSM expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements, and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times. These requirements include the Senior Managers and Certification Regime Conduct Rules, Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Conflicts of Interest, and Whistleblowing.

Skills and Experience:

Experience in consulting, strategy, transformation, or complex project delivery.
Clear passion and interest in specialty (re)insurance sector with original opinions and perspectives.
Demonstrated ability to absorb large quantities of information, digest, and connect relevant insights to other on-going initiatives, contexts, and deliverables.
Comfortable operating across ambiguity and the ability to navigate across complex organisations.
High credibility and mature presence with senior leaders with prove stakeholder management skills and experience (ability to influence without formal authority).
Strong written and spoken communication skillsets, demonstrating the ability to efficiently and effectively convey complex concepts, flexing detail according to forum, audience, and context.
Prior knowledge or familiarity with UK / Lloyd’s governance, regulatory reporting, desirable.

Directional Development Path

Year 1-2: Support the delivery of key LII UK & MENA strategic initiatives and board deliverables, building visibility and CUO support. Function as a trusted fixer and problem-solver throughout the UK & MENA and LII business.
Year 2-3: Take progressive ownership leading strategic business initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and governance processes. Cement brand as high-performing, high potential, future leader.

About Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM)

Liberty Specialty Markets is part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.

Our people are key to our success. That is why “Put People First” is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:

Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.
Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.
Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working flexibly.

For more information, please follow the links below:

https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us

https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion

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