Agile Underwriting Solutions (Agile) has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Commercial Underwriting leading our Ontario Region. This is a remote based position, open to candidates in the Greater Toronto Area. We are seeking an experienced underwriting professional with strong leadership skills and a proven ability to manage teams, broker relationships, and underwriting performance.
Expected Compensation: The expected hiring range for this role is $92,800 to $116,000. Your rate of pay will be determined based on your individual qualifications and experience while considering internal equity.
Agile also offers a competitive annual short-term incentive program that enables employees to share in the rewards of the business and emphasizes the measures that are key to our success.
Reason for Vacancy: This posting is to fill a current vacancy on our team
What we offer:
- High-growth company environment with great opportunity for development
- Competitive salary and bonus structure
- Comprehensive medical and dental benefits
- Diverse mix of staff and demonstrated work/life balance
- Career growth opportunities and continuing education programs
- Flexible paid Values Days to celebrate days important to you
The opportunity:
As Manager, Commercial Underwriting, you’ll shape the success of our Ontario operations by leading, developing, and empowering a team of underwriters while driving strong broker relationships and profitable results. In this role, you’ll influence key decisions, optimize processes, and help build a high-performing, future-ready team.
In this role you will:
- Lead, manage, and develop the underwriting team to deliver strong client service, satisfaction, and retention
- Oversee sales and underwriting performance, including renewal retention, rate adequacy, cross-selling, and upselling
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators to drive profitability and operational success
- Lead regular team meetings and ensure execution of key initiatives and action items
- Support claims resolution and collaborate with internal stakeholders on complex or escalated issues
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes and efficiency
- Lead employee attraction, engagement, retention, and development to build a high-performing team
- Support organizational change initiatives and promote adaptability across the team
Here’s what you bring:
- 5+ years of underwriting experience, including at least 2 years in a people management role
- CIP or FCIP designation required; undergraduate degree preferred
- Strong leadership, coaching, and team development skills
- Solid business acumen with a deep understanding of underwriting performance drivers
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a solution-based approach to client service
- Strong organizational skills, accountability, and attention to detail
- Proven ability to lead teams through high-growth, evolving environments, driving transformation while delivering strong underwriting results and profitable growth
AI statement: As part of our commitment to transparency, we want to let you know that while our recruitment system includes AI capabilities, these are never used to screen, evaluate, or select candidates. The only AI functionality that Westland uses is for transcribing notes during candidate calls, and this occurs with your consent. These tools aren't used to make any hiring decisions throughout our recruitment process.
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At Agile, you will feel the power of community. Agile Underwriting Solutions is an inclusive organization that values diversity in its workforce. We listen, champion equity and diversity, and create safe welcoming spaces where everyone has a voice and is free to be themselves. Agile Underwriting Solutions encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate applicants' disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
If you require a disability-related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment team by email at [email protected]
Skills Required
- 5+ years of underwriting experience
- At least 2 years of people management experience
- CIP or FCIP designation
- Undergraduate degree
- Strong leadership, coaching, and team development skills
- Business acumen and understanding of underwriting performance drivers
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills, accountability, and attention to detail
- Ability to lead teams through high-growth and organizational change environments
What We Do
Agile Underwriting Solutions is a modern, industry-leading managing general agency (MGA) delivering specialized insurance solutions coast-to-coast across Canada. Since 1995 it has helped brokers find coverage for hard-to-place personal, commercial, and specialty lines insurance. Headquartered in Nova Scotia with offices in British Columbia and Alberta, it pairs extensive underwriting expertise and top-rated carriers with customized risk management and streamlined support for its broker partners.
