Jobs at Ryan Specialty

Leads complex, strategic, or high-risk insurance placements; serves as subject matter expert advising brokers and sales leaders; designs proposals; resolves escalated/nonstandard issues; influences placement policies; coaches specialists and may drive team placement goals.

Manage the policy binding process including entering underwriting data, issuing policies and endorsements, coordinating between underwriters and brokers, collecting client information, tracking cancellations/renewals, and preparing binding performance and compliance reports. Serve as backup for underwriting staff and ensure adherence to regulatory and carrier requirements.

Manages a Property and Casualty insurance underwriting portfolio, evaluating new and renewal risks, determining coverage terms and premiums, and maintaining underwriting standards. Builds broker relationships, supports business planning and premium forecasting, manages submissions and renewals, ensures regulatory compliance, and develops customized insurance solutions. Drives portfolio growth and retention while monitoring market trends, emerging risks, and underwriting regulations.

Leads AI and machine learning teams developing, deploying, evaluating, and monitoring search models and algorithms. Oversees the full machine learning lifecycle, application operations, release management, roadmaps, resiliency, technical debt reduction, and supplier solutions. Mentors staff on engineering best practices, testing, debugging, documentation, and design patterns while partnering with AI platform and product teams to accelerate AI feature development and measure delivery improvements.

Analyze catastrophe risks (earthquakes, hurricanes, floods), build and maintain catastrophe risk models, use catastrophe modeling software, collaborate with underwriters and actuaries, monitor industry and regulatory trends, prepare reports for senior management, and participate in cross-functional teams to improve risk assessment and mitigation strategies.

Manage day-to-day servicing and renewal lifecycle for commercial insurance accounts, including policy submissions, endorsements, binders, renewals, and client support. Coordinate with brokers, carriers, and internal teams to ensure accurate policy administration, maintain account records, perform coverage analysis, and use brokerage systems and Excel for reporting and data management. Participate in training and collaborate with senior team members to improve processes and client service.

Support middle market operations by analyzing workflows, translating business needs into requirements, leading UAT and defect resolution, optimizing systems, documenting SOPs, coordinating cross-functional teams, and reporting operational metrics to drive consistency and scalability.

Process and maintain commercial insurance policies and related transactions, ensure data accuracy and regulatory compliance, support underwriters and brokers, manage policy documentation and correspondence, resolve billing and system discrepancies, produce reports, and contribute to process improvement and audits.

The role involves reviewing premium invoices, processing payments, conducting reconciliations, managing inquiries, and ensuring compliance with regulations and standards.

Manage day-to-day operations of assigned group captive insurance programs, own client and broker relationships, prepare board materials and financial reports, drive renewals and business development, monitor risk and performance metrics, coordinate with underwriting/claims/compliance, and mentor junior staff to support strategic captive leadership.

Oversee client relationships, manage account lifecycle, ensure compliance, drive process improvements, mentor staff, and monitor team performance in a fast-paced environment.

Support brokers in managing and growing a specialized wholesale commercial insurance portfolio. Handle new business and renewals, prepare submissions and proposals, review policies/endorsements/invoices, ensure compliance, maintain account data, analyze portfolio trends, collaborate with carriers and internal teams, and deliver high-quality client service to drive retention and growth.

Lead pricing strategy and actuarial processes for specialty insurance portfolios. Develop and enhance pricing methodologies, models, and rating algorithms. Partner with underwriting, product, and executive teams to price large and complex accounts, monitor portfolio performance, and recommend corrective actions. Use data analysis and predictive analytics to inform product design, delegated authority programs, and strategic planning. Provide leadership to actuarial teams and communicate pricing insights to stakeholders.

Support the binding process for insurance policies by entering underwriting data, ensuring compliance, liaising between underwriters and brokers, issuing endorsements, tracking renewals/cancellations, maintaining records, communicating with clients, and preparing binding performance and compliance reports.

Lead complex business systems initiatives for Premium Accounting: gather and translate requirements, own functional design through SDLC, drive UAT, analyze data/flows, apply AI tools to improve automation and efficiency, advise stakeholders, and mentor analysts.

The Client Support Manager leads a team in resolving client issues, fostering relationships, coordinating onboarding, and improving support strategies and KPIs.

Support pricing for MGUs by developing and improving pricing models (GLMs), analyzing portfolios, compiling statistics and dashboards, evolving rating tools, evaluating vendors, and communicating strategy with underwriting and carrier partners to drive growth and profitability.

Analyze pharmacy claims and utilization to identify cost drivers and savings opportunities. Support specialty drug monitoring, PBM evaluations, stop-loss underwriting, client reporting, dashboards, and pharmacy benefit strategy development while collaborating with consultants, underwriters, brokers, and vendor partners.

The Vice President drives the underwriting strategy for a product line, manages performance, oversees partnerships, ensures data integrity, and supports goals aligned with the company's vision.

Conduct monthly quality reviews of underwriting and servicing files to ensure compliance with carrier, regulatory, and internal requirements. Identify trends and root causes, analyze data, report findings, and partner with underwriting and operations to implement corrective actions and process improvements. Maintain audit documentation and support initiatives to improve underwriting consistency and operational accuracy.