Global Wholesale & Specialty Strategy and Transformation Lead, North America

**About Everest:**Everest is a global leader in risk management, rooted in a rich, 50+ year heritage of enabling businesses to survive and thrive, and economies to function and flourish. We are underwriters of risk, growth, progress and opportunity. We are a global team focused on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation for all stakeholders, who care deeply about our impact on communities and the wider world.Drive profitable growth across the North America Global Wholesale & Specialty (GWS) business by shaping, executing, and monitoring the divisional strategy. This role serves as the strategic partner for the North America GW&S Exec Team and senior underwriting/functional leaders, ensuring that priorities, investments, analytics, and delivery efforts are focused on the highest-value opportunities. The role acts as the connector between business needs, analytics, operations, and delivery teams to ensure execution is fast, disciplined, and business-led.This is hybrid role based out of the New York City office, with travel as needed. **Key Responsibilities**1. Profitability & Strategic Direction* Lead development, refinement, and execution of the NA GW&S strategy with clear focus on profitability, margin improvement, and disciplined growth.* Monitor business performance and portfolio trends; translate insights into actionable strategic recommendations.* Partner with underwriting, commercial, and finance leaders to identify high- value opportunities and areas requiring corrective action.2. Performance Monitoring & Analytics Direction* Work closely with Business Performance & Analytics to ensure NA has the right dashboards, MI, and insight tools to support underwriting, pricing, and business decisions.* Define analytics priorities for North America aligned to business needs, ensuring timely and fit-for-purpose outputs.* Support data-led performance reviews and strategic insights for quarterly business reviews and leadership forums.3. Investment & Business Case Leadership* Evaluate and prioritize North America investment requests (technology, data, operations, talent, etc.) and create business cases aligned to the overall GW&S strategy.* Partner with Finance, Ops, and AI/Data to ensure investments deliver measurable business value.4. North America Governance & Operating Model* Lead the NA GW&S Strategy Realization Board, and partake in relevant management forums (Operating Board, Performance Board, Production Board) to challenge, question, and steer discussions to ensure NA perspectives and needs are incorporated.* Partner with relevant teams to ensure governance outputs translate into clear action plans for the NA business.5. Transformation, Delivery & Execution* Partner with Delivery & Change to ensure NA initiatives are properly scoped, resourced, and delivered on time.* Ensure priorities reflect NA business needs, monitor progress, remove blockers, and escalate issues where needed.6. Stakeholder Leadership & Collaboration* Build strong relationships with underwriting heads, commercial leads, finance partners, operations, AI/Data, IT, and other functions.* Serve as a strategic advisor to senior NA leaders and the Global Head of Strategy & Transformation.* Ensure clear communication of strategy, priorities, and progress across the NA team**Skills, Abilities & Competencies:*** As a strategic insurance leader, you should have 10+ years of experience in wholesale/E&S and specialty markets* Experience in A&H and/or Facultative a plus* Experience with technology optimization, digital/AI implementation in the re/insurance industry a plus* Proven track record of shaping and delivering strategy in complex environment, with a background in top‐tier consulting or internal strategic advisory roles advantageous.* Experience in leading large‐scale transformation* Deep commercial acumen, strong analytical capability, and confidence using data and MI to inform underwriting and pricing decisions.* Experience in project management and change management* Demonstrated experience in executive level reporting, presentation, and business case development* Ability to collaborate effectively across underwriting, finance, operations, and data/AI teams globally, influencing senior stakeholders to drive results in fast‐paced environments.The base salary range for this position is $152,000 - $215,000 annually. The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, experience, qualifications and work location. All offers include access to a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO). #J-18808-Ljbffr Everest Group