Senior Lead Energy Underwriter

About the Role

Build and maintain a profitable, diversified GCC energy portfolio through disciplined participation on major placements, while establishing the underwriting, business development and governance capabilities required for sustainable expansion.

Responsibilities

Energy Portfolio & Strategy

• Own the energy business plan, appetite, target-account map and portfolio growth roadmap.
• Build and maintain a profitable, diversified GCC energy portfolio through disciplined participation on major placements.
• Manage aggregate exposure by country, asset, operator, peril, leader, broker, cedant and reinsurance counterparty.

Technical Underwriting

• Underwrite upstream, midstream, downstream and energy-construction risks within approved appetite.
• Independently assess occupancy, process hazards, loss scenarios, MPL/EML, BI values, deductibles, wordings, claims history and line size.
• Maintain an approved slip-leader framework and document any deviation from leader terms.

Risk Engineering & Governance

• Coordinate risk-engineering reviews and translate recommendations into terms, warranties or declined participation.
• Ensure admitted placement, sanctions, licensing, premium-tax, wording and local-policy requirements are validated country by country.
• Document any deviation from leader terms.

Market Development

• Develop brokers, cedants, energy extraction and production companies, energy contractors and reinsurance partners across the GCC as the primary market target, and selectively beyond.
• Promote existing products to new opportunities.
• Leverage existing networks and relationships to promote the energy offering.

Claims & Reinsurance

• Partner with Claims on large losses.
• Ensure rights under cooperation/control clauses are preserved.
• Partner with Reinsurance on treaty structure, terms and profitability upon renewal.

Collaborative Relationships

• Work closely with the Chief Commercial P&C Officer, Country GMs, Country P&C Heads, Claims leadership and Reinsurance leadership.
• Work with line underwriters, Country GMs, Country P&C Heads, Claims leadership and Reinsurance leadership.
• Maintain relationships with Risk Management, Finance / Performance Management, Compliance, Internal Audit, Legal, Data Governance and regulators, as required through country management.

Education & Qualifications

• CII / FCII / CPCU or engineering qualification.

Other Requirements

Experience

• Substantial specialist energy underwriting experience.
• GCC or GCC-facing portfolio exposure with demonstrable authority.
• Experience across insurer / reinsurer / Lloyd's settings, major-broker relationships and first-hand portfolio building experience.

Technical / Analytical Capabilities

• Underwriting expertise and portfolio analytics.
• Facultative and treaty understanding.
• Claims and engineering literacy.

Leadership & Behaviours

• Technical curiosity, disciplined judgement and commercial resilience.
• Credible communication, conflict management, data orientation and regulatory awareness.
• Proven capability to lead projects, work autonomously, manage priorities and deliver outcomes in a complex, matrixed environment.

Language

• Fluent English, written and spoken.