SVP, Specialty Real Estate & Energy Insurance Risk Solutions
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Finance & Banking
Risk Manager/Analyst, CFO -
Management
Risk Manager/Analyst, CFO
Construction & Commercial Real Estate
- Operating Model Implementation
Role Overview
The Senior Vice President, Specialty Real Estate & Energy Insurance Risk Solutions is the accountable executive responsible for designing, launching, and scaling a specialty insurance platform focused on:
- Commercial real estate and construction risks
- Renewable energy and energy-infrastructure assets
- Structured and financial risk solutions
This role owns portfolio strategy, underwriting appetite and governance, pricing and reserving discipline, reinsurance and capital optimization, and senior stakeholder management across regulators, auditors, reinsurers, and distribution partners.
The position intentionally combines the scope of a Chief Actuary (valuation, reserving, model governance, statutory and economic reporting) with the commercial authority of an Executive Underwriter (program ownership, production leadership, client and board engagement), creating a single point of accountability for profitable growth and risk-adjusted return on capital.
Reporting & Role Level- Role level: Senior Vice President / Executive Vice President equivalent
- Reports to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Geography: United States, with optional Bermuda and EU-facing counter parties
- Travel: Up to ~20% (board meetings, reinsurers, brokers, site visits)
The organization is building a specialty insurance and risk solutions platform serving capital-intensive, complex asset classes where insurance functions as a balance-sheet, financing, and execution enabler.
Primary customers include:
- Developers and EPC contractors
- Owners and operators
- Lenders, tax equity, and project finance participants
- Infrastructure funds and commercial real estate sponsors
The platform may operate through admitted or surplus lines carriers, MGAs/MGUs, fronting arrangements, and/or captive and cell structures, supported by reinsurance and collateralized risk transfer.
Coverage & Product Scope (Illustrative) Construction & Commercial Real Estate- Builders Risk / Construction All Risks (CAR)
- Delay in Start-Up (DSU / ALOP)
- OCIPs and contractor-controlled programs
- General and excess liability
- Workers’ compensation
- Environmental and site liability
- Professional liability / E&O
- Solar, wind, storage, grid, and industrial energy assets
- Construction, transit, commissioning, and operations phases
- Equipment breakdown and business interruption
- Parametric weather and catastrophe solutions
- Environmental and performance-related risk structures
- Trade credit and receivables protection
- Surety and performance support (where applicable)
- Residual value and revenue stabilization
- Lender-centric insurance wraps
- Bespoke structured risk transfer solutions
Success in this role is defined by the following outcomes:
Underwriting Strategy & Governance- Approved underwriting guidelines, authority matrices, and referral protocols
- Clear risk appetite and portfolio concentration limits
- Actuarial pricing and reserving models aligned to specialty risk
- Board-ready quarterly reserve review and reporting cadence
- Placed quota share and/or excess reinsurance programs
- Defined retention, collateral, and counter party management framework
- Statutory reporting calendar and controls
- Readiness for US Statutory, US GAAP, and IFRS 17 reporting where applicable
- Documented model governance and audit trail
- Executed channel strategy across brokers, MGAs/MGUs, reinsurers, fronting carriers, and captive managers
- Measurable pipeline and conversion performance
- Implemented target operating model (systems, data, TPAs, claims, risk engineering)
- Clear governance and control environment
- Sustainable profitable growth with defined targets for GWP, net retained premium, combined ratio, and ROE
- Credible roadmap to scale…
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