The SVP, Portfolio Management is a dynamic leadership role with P&L accountability for a multiline property and casualty portfolio of approximately $8B. Reporting to the Chief Underwriting Officer, the successful candidate will combine technical expertise in portfolio management, pricing, and analytics with strong leadership, collaboration, and influence skills to drive profitable growth for the division.
The Portfolio Management team is responsible for managing the health of the portfolio across the digital business through upper middle market, with accountability for new business, pricing, rate and retention management, and account retention.
This leader will oversee the team, establish a consistent operating process, prioritize efforts, and provide clear and regular reporting.
The title is flexible based on the candidate’s experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead prioritization efforts to ensure focus on critical business needs.
- Manage portfolio resources to ensure the team is allocated appropriately based on business needs.
- Oversee the Decision Management Group process to ensure decisions are made with the appropriate constituents, proper analysis, implementation, and measurement.
- Ensure prompt and effective execution of portfolio management strategies and measure outcomes against expectations.
- Ensure consistent and clear deliverables across teams.
- Collaborate with the Portfolio Insights team to access needed data sets and ensure consistent visualization and tool sets. Partner closely with the Lines of Business, Industry Practices, Small and Lower Middle Market, and Field leadership.
- Proven leader in the insurance industry with a minimum of 10 years of technical underwriting experience and portfolio management.
- Track record of managing a profitable portfolio. Ability to demonstrate portfolio actions that were developed to maintain and grow profitably.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to foster a collaborative, high-performance work environment that supports strategic business objectives.
- Advanced portfolio analysis skills, including the ability to identify areas of concern and improvement through data analysis, and implement action steps to address identified vulnerabilities.
- Ability to think strategically and translate business objectives into effective action.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, and negotiation skills, with advanced influence management and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively interact with internal and external business partners at all levels and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
The pay range for the role is $200,000 to $250,000. The specific offer will depend on an applicant’s skills and other factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. Chubb offers a comprehensive benefits package, more details on which can be found on our careers website. The disclosed pay range estimate may be adjusted for the applicable geographic differential for the location in which the position is filled.
About UsSkills Required
- Minimum 10 years of technical underwriting experience and portfolio management in the insurance industry
- Proven experience managing a profitable portfolio
- Ability to demonstrate portfolio actions that maintained and grew profitability
- Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to foster a collaborative, high-performance work environment
- Advanced portfolio analysis skills, including identifying concerns and improvement opportunities through data analysis
- Ability to implement action steps addressing portfolio vulnerabilities
- Ability to think strategically and translate business objectives into effective action
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, and negotiation skills
- Advanced influence management and communication skills
- Ability to interact effectively with internal and external business partners at all levels
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Chubb Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Chubb and has not been reviewed or approved by Chubb.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes multiple medical plan options with preventive care, plus dental and vision, alongside HSAs/FSAs, telemedicine, and wellness resources. The breadth of offerings is presented as comprehensive for a large insurance employer.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company contributions anchors the financial benefits, complemented by life and disability insurance. These programs reinforce long-term savings and protection.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Performance-based and year-end bonuses are part of the total rewards, with structured reviews supporting incentive opportunities. These components provide compensation beyond base salary.
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What We Do
Chubb is the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. With operations in 54 countries and territories, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. As an underwriting company, we assess, assume and manage risk with insight and discipline. We service and pay our claims fairly and promptly. The company is also defined by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength and local operations globally. Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Chubb maintains executive offices in Zurich, New York, London, Paris and other locations, and employs 31,000 people worldwide. Additional information can be found at: chubb.com.
