Vice President, Entertainment Product Head

Vice President, Entertainment Product Head — The Pailin Group Professional Search Consultants

Location: Los Angeles, New York

Travel: 15-20%

Our consultants are recruiting for a dynamic Product Head to drive the profitable growth of an entertainment practice. Preferred focus and expertise in movie and television production including the rental house market.

Overall Purpose and Context of the Job

The Product Head is a key and highly influential role within our underwriting management structure, empowered with broad responsibility for driving the profitable growth of a fast-growing portfolio, specializing in the unique needs of a wide range of businesses.

Working and collaborating with top-notch talent throughout the organization, you will be charged with leading the design and adoption of sustainable underwriting strategies that inspire our teams and honor our commitment to being a superior business partner to our customers and brokers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Subject Matter Expert

• S/he will apply subject-matter expertise to develop profitable underwriting strategies.
• S/he will demonstrate a hunger for knowledge in all aspects of the entertainment marketplace and our customers in order to create and evolve nimble, innovative and best-in-class risk solutions in a clear and simple manner.
• S/he will develop and evolve an effective technical underwriting guide (TUG) inclusive of smart and profit-minded risk appetite and parameters.
• S/he will develop and evolve smart and profitable pricing model strategies.
• S/he will develop, evolve and implement effective training collateral and skills assessment capabilities for your line of business.

Strategist / Steward of Profitable Growth

• S/he will be responsible for collaborating with others to deliver the agreed top-and-bottom-line annual business plan.
• S/he will proactively monitor a suite of profitability performance metrics, and adjust our underwriting strategies in a timely manner as new, material opportunities and risks emerge.
• S/he will proactively engage with multiple internal and external contacts to issue spot and stay on top of the latest trends, threats and opportunities in the entertainment marketplace.
• S/he will develop and implement best practices to ensure underwriting rigor, technical compliance, quality controls and regulatory compliance within our underwriting files.
• S/he will conduct peer reviews and apply quality control measures on underwriting files.
• S/he will be the primary referral point for the field and design, manage and deploy an intelligent strategy for the deployment of underwriting authority grants.

Inspirational Leader

• S/he will embrace the inspirational role you play; inspire and support the success of our underwriters.
• S/he will drive the implementation of our underwriting strategy through a high-performance staff in New York and Los Angeles.
• S/he will build excitement around the product and transfer knowledge through underwriter engagement.

Marketing and Brand Builder

• S/he will assist in building our brand as a specialist insurer that is passionate and dedicated to the marketplace.

Collaborator & Trusted Peer

• S/he will proactively drive results through the development of positive, productive and collaborative working relationships.
• S/he will establish a high degree of trust and credibility with others.
• S/he will remain agile through change and is open to shifting roles or a different reporting structure as the business evolves.

Ambassador of Values

• S/he will be responsible for role modeling and bringing to life the values core to how we engage internally and externally.

Person Specification

Skill Requirements

• Dynamic leader with the ability to inspire and influence underwriters and the wider business.
• Proven record of understanding/delivering meaningful underwriting profit.
• Entrepreneurial and creative spirit capable of translating emerging trends and customer insight into profitable strategies.
• Media-savvy and comfortable driving our brand through thought-leadership initiatives.
• Customer-centric mindset and passionate about superior customer service.
• Team-oriented, ability to collaborate and share information across divisions.
• Courageous with a willingness to constructively challenge ideas.
• Clear, effective and engaging communicator with varied interpersonal skills.
• Continuous improvement mindset, both curious and coachable.
• Good value system and intuition, committed to excellence.

Knowledge and Experience Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the US entertainment marketplace.
• Strong technical command of a broad range of entertainment industry exposures and insurance solutions.
• Proven track record of delivering sustainable underwriting profit.

Equal Opportunity Employer. In order to be considered, applicants are required to include a cover letter summarizing qualifications and interest in this role, along with a resume or CV including compensation requirements.

Pailin Group Professional Search Consultants

Debra Hartmann – Division Group Manager

dhartmann@pailingrop.com

www.pailingroup.com