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Johnson Inc., one of Canada's leading insurance providers, has an exciting career opportunity in their Corporate Head Office located in St. John's, NL. Founded in 1880, Johnson Inc. is one of Canada’s leading national insurance and benefit providers, and is an award winning organization recognized as providing superior customer service and achieving growth and profitability that outperforms the industry. Johnson employs over 1100 people, has assets in excess of $1 Billion, and has over 65 locations across the country from St. John’s to Vancouver. 

This is your opportunity to join a long standing organization with a proven commitment to growth, profitability, and superior results, that is a leader of it’s industry. Reporting to the President, the Vice President, Underwriting & Risk will direct, lead and deliver a clear underwriting strategy, including product and pricing strategies appropriate for a significant organization and its related organizational structure.  You will also lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive risk policy framework that provides robust and consistent methods and standards for risk identification, assessment, documentation and management. Ensure that risks are being controlled, in line with regulation, and the company’s appetite for risk.  You will provide leadership in managing diverse teams of underwriting and risk professionals, with a concentration on developing capability and capacity to achieve the company’s underwriting and risk objectives.

We seek an established industry professional that can provide leadership and direction to an accomplished team. The successful candidate will have a minimum of five years of successful experience in a senior management role in underwriting and risk or relevant industry experience.  With strong interpersonal and communication skills you have a proven track record of executing and delivering on objectives.  Experienced at interacting positively with geographically dispersed locations and capable of working independently, you have demonstrated behaviors that indicate courage to innovate and the ability to embrace change and invite opportunity. 

For immediate and confidential consideration in opportunity please contact Natalie Hand in our St John’s office at 709-722-6890 or email your resume (Word format), quoting 8028, to Dionne.lane@robertsonsurrette.com.