[Hiring] SVP, Product Recall & Contamination @Integrated Specialty Coverages

Role Description

ISC International is seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President to lead its Product Recall & Contamination Business Unit. This executive will own the strategy, growth, profitability, and operating performance of the portfolio while building a scalable platform across:

• Underwriting
• Product
• Distribution
• Operations
• Claims
• Analytics
• Talent

The ideal candidate is a recognized product recall leader with deep carrier or specialty insurance experience, a strong record of profitable portfolio management, and the ability to translate market insight into disciplined underwriting and sustainable growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive progressive leadership experience in product recall and contamination underwriting within a carrier, specialty insurer, MGA, or comparable platform.
• Demonstrated success leading a business unit or substantial portfolio with direct accountability for growth, profitability, and underwriting performance.
• Deep technical expertise across product recall and contamination products, exposures, policy forms, pricing considerations, and claims trends.
• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to balance market opportunity with disciplined risk selection and portfolio management.
• Proven ability to develop strategy, translate it into an operating plan, and deliver measurable results.
• Established relationships and credibility with brokers, clients, reinsurers, and industry partners.
• Executive-level communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, with fluency in portfolio metrics, forecasting, planning, and performance reporting.
• Ability to lead effectively in an entrepreneurial, collaborative, and evolving environment.

Requirements

• Lead a product recall and contamination business for companies in the larger middle market and corporates segment across the cosmetics, food & beverage industry, and the automobile sectors.
• Establish a clear market position, underwriting appetite, and distribution strategy aligned with the company’s broader specialty insurance platform.
• Own profit-and-loss performance and deliver sustainable growth, underwriting profitability, risk appetite, premium growth, and portfolio diversification.
• Risk Assessment & Underwriting: Evaluate product recall exposures, manufacturing processes, quality control systems, and product safety protocols to determine insurability and appropriate coverage terms.
• Pricing & Policy Structuring: Develop and apply underwriting strategies, pricing models, deductibles, limits, exclusions, and policy conditions tailored to individual client exposure.
• Client & Broker Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with brokers, insureds, and key industry stakeholders to support profitable business development and retention.
• Risk Engineering & Loss Prevention: Collaborate with risk engineers and technical specialists to identify potential product failure scenarios and recommend measures to reduce recall frequency and severity.
• Claims & Loss Analysis: Partner with claims leadership on complex matters, review historical claims, loss trends, and emerging product safety issues to inform underwriting decisions and improve risk selection.
• Industry & Regulatory Monitoring: Monitor developments in product safety regulations, recall trends, manufacturing practices, and emerging risks across relevant industries.
• Underwriting Governance: Ensure compliance with underwriting guidelines, delegated authorities, internal controls, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with claims, actuarial, risk engineering, legal, and reinsurance teams to support sound underwriting decisions and portfolio performance.
• Business Development: Identify new market opportunities, develop sector-specific underwriting strategies, and contribute to the achievement of premium and profitability targets.
• Recruit, organize, develop, and retain a high-performing team of underwriting and business-unit professionals.
• Define operating requirements and collaborate with technology, operations, finance, and analytics teams to improve workflow, data quality, reporting, and scalability.
• Represent the business unit with executive leadership and provide clear reporting on performance, opportunities, risks, and strategic priorities.

Benefits

• Employee Ownership Program - every eligible employee shares in the financial rewards that grow when the company grows.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Owner Referral Program.
• Work from home reimbursement for remote/hybrid roles.
• Canary emergency financial assistance program.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision.
• Life/AD&D Insurance.
• Confidential, Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Savings Account, includes company contribution.
• Short-term disability.
• Voluntary benefits - supplemental accident, critical illness, hospital insurance.
• Employee discounts.
• 401(k) Plan with company match contribution.
• Addition Wealth Financial Wellness Program.
• Various Time Off Programs.
• 11 company paid holidays.