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Pula Re is domiciled in Bermuda and will be focussed on emerging economies, targeting high-growth markets across Africa, Asia, and a select exploratory regions such as Latin America, with a strong focus on agriculture, parametric, climate, property cat, speciality and transition risks, along with conventional risks while benefitting and protecting those most vulnerable rural farming communities and in specific women.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 150, 219); font-size: 14pt\">Overall Objective</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">As an early member of the leadership team, you will play a pioneering role in establishing the Property, Casualty &amp; Specialty Lines function from the ground up. This position combines marketing, technical underwriting, claims management, and reinsurance placement, with a strong focus on underwriting discipline, profitable growth, and relationship building.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">You will identify new business opportunities and manage or develop relationships with insurers, reinsurance brokers, and other reinsurers to expand Pula RE’s footprint across its target markets. It is a hands-on, market-facing role that will require regular travel across Pula RE’s focus regions. Team expansion will evolve in line with business growth.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 150, 219); font-size: 14pt\">Key Responsibilities</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Develop relationships with insurers, RI Brokers and other reinsurers to maximize opportunities and achieve profitable growth. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Initiate market visits and calls to market players to identify sales opportunities and collect intelligence.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Achieving new business premium, renewal premium retention and monitoring rate, exposure and retention.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Collaborate with HoDs &amp; senior members of broader Pula Group to develop synergies and local tactics to attract and retain business while executing Pula Re’s underwriting strategies and initiatives.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Within Pula Re’s guidelines and granted underwriting authority, evaluate new and renewal account information to determine risk acceptability, terms / conditions to be quoted, and pricing.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Make sound risk and pricing decisions that achieve profitable loss ratios. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Maintain underwriting quality as per Pula Re underwriting framework. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Document underwriting file to support acceptability and pricing in accordance with Pula Re guidelines. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Achieve customer service standards, including established objectives for: </span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">New business quote turnaround. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Renewal quotes </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Endorsement, cancellation, audits and other transactions.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Policy issuance </span></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Provide detailed issuance instructions to ensure policy is delivered consistent with quoted terms and conditions and in accordance with established guidelines relative to policy construction.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Review mid-term endorsement requests for acceptability and provide instructions for processing.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Evaluate premium/risk referrals to determine class acceptability and/or appropriateness of current exposure base. Adjust current terms with acceptable changes to ensure the company gets timely payment of adequate premium. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Order and review inspections to confirm accounts written are consistent with preliminary underwriting information and act when the inspection reveals unacceptable risk characteristics. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Determine if retro-facultative reinsurance is needed and if so, factor retro cost in gross pricing, complete cession procedures; documentation file and follow established workflow procedure to ensure proper reporting / accounting. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Managing claims management encompassing recovery from retro partners, payouts cedants and evaluating all claim slips and related documentation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Support other team members as assigned when the other underwriter is traveling or out on vacation / sick time. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Building underwriting acumen of internal and external stakeholders through training and development opportunities.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 150, 219); font-size: 14pt\">Who you are</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(52, 157, 55); font-size: 10pt\">Qualifications &amp; Experience</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, Master’s in Business, or degree in Engineering/Technology) preferred.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Professional insurance certification (e.g., CII, Insurance Institute of Kenya) advantageous but not mandatory.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Proven success in commercial lines property, casualty, or specialty insurance, ideally within a reinsurer or reinsurance broker of repute.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Experience in surplus lines underwriting and retrocession treaty design highly preferred.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Underwriting experience in the parametric insurance sector will be beneficial.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Strong network and relationships across insurance and reinsurance markets in and beyond Africa.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Skilled in process mapping, operational efficiency, and cost management.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(52, 157, 55); font-size: 10pt\">Skills &amp; Attributes</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action and ownership.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Strong commercial judgment and decision-making ability.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">High integrity, resilience, and reliability in delivering results.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Adaptive and unafraid of ambiguity or high-pressure environments.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Change champion; open to unlearning convention and embracing innovation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Gravitas and presence to engage senior stakeholders and external partners.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Growth-oriented leader passionate about learning and developing others.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Fluent in English; knowledge of other international languages is an asset.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 150, 219); font-size: 14pt\">Why join Pula Re</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Be a Founder</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: Build a reinsurer from the ground up and shape its destiny.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Own Your Impact</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: Benefit from a highly attractive ownership structure that rewards your success.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Transform Lives</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: Solve critical challenges for African insurers, enabling them to protect millions of lives and livelihoods.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Global Backing, Local Impact</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: Leverage Pula’s global expertise and resources to drive change across Africa.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Unleash Your Vision</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: Operate with autonomy to innovate, disrupt, and lead in a high-growth environment.</span></li>\n</ul>",
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