What it’s like to be a Northbridge Vice President, Commercial Underwriting
As Vice President, Commercial Underwriting, you provide technical leadership for your region while shaping underwriting strategy, profitability, and growth. You lead and inspire a team of underwriting leaders, ensuring operational excellence, strong market presence, and disciplined risk selection. Acting as a senior underwriting authority, you support highly complex accounts, mentor underwriting teams, guide referral decisions, and partner closely with Corporate Underwriting to ensure regional strategies align with enterprise standards and objectives.
You play a key role in driving regional business plans, supporting broker and market engagement, and identifying opportunities to strengthen portfolio performance. With a strong pulse on industry trends, regulation, and market dynamics, you help influence product evolution and ensure underwriting practices support sustainable growth and long-term profitability.
We want your talent!
If you are great at:
Providing strategic, long-term underwriting and business leadership
Leading, coaching, and mentoring senior underwriting leaders
Analyzing complex risks, profitability, and portfolio performance
Making sound, disciplined underwriting decisions on high-complexity accounts
Building consensus and negotiating effectively with internal and external partners
Translating complex ideas into clear business direction and requirements
Fostering collaboration, teamwork, and strong stakeholder relationships
Identifying trends, risks, and opportunities through data-driven analysis
Thinking creatively and delivering innovative underwriting and market strategies
And you have:
Post-secondary education or equivalent work experience
15+ years of experience in the property and casualty insurance industry
10+ years of progressive leadership experience
10+ years of progressively senior underwriting experience
Strong knowledge of underwriting principles and insurance products, including Personal Lines
Completion of CIP or FCIP designation
In-depth understanding of underwriting operations and company processes
Working knowledge of underwriting and claims systems (conceptual focus)
Strong computer skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Bilingual proficiency in French and English (required for the Quebec region; considered a strong asset elsewhere)
We really mean it when we say we put you first. Here are a few ways how:
Hybrid work! You get to work from the office and at home 50/50, allowing you to manage both worlds with the ease and flexibility you need.
We offer competitive salaries and support your financial health through our employee share purchase plan, pension plans, RRSP, discounts on staff insurance, and more!
We help you prioritize your well-being from day one through flexible health benefits, early leave days, wellness programs, rewards, and recognition programs.
We are invested in helping you grow in your career through education assistance to complete your CIP, FCIP, CRM or other courses desired, internal mobility, leadership training, and mentoring programs.
NBFC cares about the community and supports the causes you believe in with donation matching and team volunteer days.
This is a real opportunity — we’re actively hiring! If the role sounds like a good fit, we encourage you to apply. Beyond base pay, we offer a robust Total Rewards program that includes benefits, wellness support, and other meaningful perks.
We also want to be transparent about our hiring process. While one of our systems includes AI capabilities, over 99% of our screening is done by real people. We believe in thoughtful, human-centered hiring decisions, and are committed to giving every application the attention it deserves.
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Who we are:
We’re Northbridge Insurance. We’re proud to work with Canada’s most trusted commercial broker networks. We have a reputation for being one of Canada’s leading commercial insurance providers. Our employees are dedicated to understanding the needs of our customers and creating solutions that help Canadian businesses have a safer and brighter future. We’re a company of passionate people who put people first. Do you want to join a team that believes in working hard – and having fun at work – all while making a difference? Look no further than Northbridge.
At Northbridge Financial we embrace and celebrate you and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all! No matter who you are or what makes you unique, we welcome you. Please let us know how we can assist or accommodate you during the selection process.
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What We Do
Northbridge Financial Corporation (NBFC) is a leading commercial property and casualty insurance group that has helped protect Canadian businesses for 100 years. We offer a wide range of innovative solutions through our Northbridge Insurance, TruShield Insurance, and Federated Insurance brands. We’re passionate about protection, prevention and progress – for our customers, and in our communities. Our exceptional service and extensive offerings help Canadian businesses succeed, while our enthusiastic team works to support and uplift our neighbours from coast to coast to coast. We’re proud to be 100% Canadian and are wholly owned by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. We love where we work and think you will too!
