Vice President, Business Development Executive, Reinsurance Greater Minneapolis, MN Area

The Company is seeking a Vice President, Business Development Executive, Reinsurance to grow its reinsurance and retrocession business across the Americas. The role involves originating, structuring, negotiating, and closing new business, securing renewals, and building a qualified pipeline across target clients and markets. The successful candidate will develop relationships with brokers, cedents, and reinsurers, and work with underwriting and modeling teams to shape tailored risk-transfer solutions. Responsibilities also include monitoring market developments, maintaining accurate forecasts, representing the organization at industry events, and collaborating across teams to pursue business opportunities. Candidates should have at least five years of reinsurance experience in business development, broking, or underwriting, with a proven record of originating and closing business. Strong knowledge of treaty and facultative structures, renewal cycles, natural catastrophe risks, and catastrophe modeling concepts is required, along with an established network of US reinsurance market contacts. The role calls for consultative selling, negotiation, analytical and financial skills, and excellent English communication. Experience in retrocession, insurance-linked securities, alternative risk transfer, parametric risk, or a scaling insurance technology environment is an advantage.

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Descartes Underwriting