Sports & Entertainment Underwriting Manager
Leads underwriting strategy and risk selection for a growing sports insurance book covering governing bodies, professional teams, and events. The role requires specialist sports, leisure, or entertainment underwriting experience and strong expertise in pricing, policy wording, appetite, and liability risks.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own risk selection, pricing, and appetite across national governing bodies, professional teams, and events.
- Shape policy design and wording, not just the rate.
- Codify underwriting judgment into rating models, appetite rules, and referral logic.
- Review referrals and complex risks, feeding each decision back into the underwriting system.
- Build and lead the sports underwriting team as the book scales.
Requirements
- 4+ years of underwriting sports, leisure, or entertainment risks at a carrier, MGA, or Lloyd's syndicate.
- Strong property and casualty fundamentals across liability lines.
- Fluency in sports exposures, including sanctioned events, club structures, and national governing body structures.
- Credibility across pricing, wordings, appetite, and risk selection.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
Nice to Have
- Contingency or accident and health exposure alongside a property and casualty book.
- Experience building rating plans, appetite frameworks, or underwriting guidelines from scratch.
- Experience hiring and leading underwriters.
Compensation and Benefits
- ATS-listed salary range: $100,000–$200,000.
- The description lists total compensation, including equity, of $150,000–$250,000 in the US or £100,000–£200,000 in the UK.
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
Skills
Property And Casualty Insurance, Underwriting, Risk Selection, Pricing, Appetite Management, Policy Wording, Rating Models, Referral Logic, Liability Insurance, Contingency Insurance, Accident And Health Insurance, Underwriting Guidelines, Sports Insurance, Team Leadership
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