Ocean Marine Executive Underwriter

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HDI Global Insurance Company is a commercial property and casualty insurer headquartered in Chicago, IL. As a wholly owned subsidiary of HDI Global SE, we manage the industrial lines division of the Talanx Group. With an international network spanning over 150 countries, we deliver sophisticated domestic and global insurance solutions to U.S.-based multinational and middle-market companies across a wide range of industries.

With Xcelerate29, HDI is shaping its future by becoming a Trusted Global Player, achieving Next-level Excellence, and building a Forward-thinking Organisation. This direction helps HDI Global lead the profitable growth game as a globally connected business, raise the bar every day through stronger underwriting, claims, and investment performance, and win tomorrow by starting today with a lean, fast, resilient, and future-ready organisation. Together, these priorities support profitable growth, sustainable profitability, global consistency, digital transformation, AI acceleration, smart cost leadership, and stronger collaboration across teams and markets. They also reflect our focus on being a workplace of choice by building a future-ready workforce where people learn, grow, adapt to technology change, and contribute to long-term success.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Executive Ocean Marine & Cargo Underwriter to lead underwriting initiatives across complex marine, cargo, and transportation portfolios. This role is responsible for driving profitable growth, managing underwriting performance, and developing long-term broker and client relationships while maintaining disciplined risk selection and underwriting excellence. The ideal candidate will possess advanced expertise in Ocean Marine, Cargo, Inland Marine, and Transportation underwriting, with the ability to evaluate complex global exposures, structure customized insurance solutions, and contribute to enterprise underwriting strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead underwriting strategy and portfolio management for Ocean Marine, Cargo, Inland Marine, and Transportation business.

• Independently underwrite complex new and renewal risks involving domestic and international cargo operations, marine liabilities, stock throughput, logistics, warehousing, and global supply chain exposures.

• Analyze financial statements, loss trends, operational controls, trade routes, commodity exposures, and catastrophe accumulations to determine pricing, coverage structure, and risk appetite alignment.

• Develop and maintain strong broker, client, and distribution partner relationships to support profitable growth and market expansion.

• Structure customized insurance solutions for multinational clients with complex marine and transportation exposures.