Full-Time
Senior Project Coordinator
Business Operations
Posted on 9/27/2025
Allied World Assurance Company
1,001-5,000 employees
Provides insurance and reinsurance services globally
No salary listed
United States
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- Knowledge of Commercial Property and Casualty products and processes
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience in technical product delivery within commercial insurance
- Prior experience in underwriting systems implementation, management, and change support, with preferences for experience with Appian or equivalent low code product
- Project leadership using Agile methodology, with hands-on experience using tools like Jira
- Proven experience in project management
- Knowledge of SDLC, integrations (e.g. REST APIs, AWS, etc.) and DevOps practices
- Ability to translate insurance business needs into technology requirements
- Experience managing release cycles, issue tracking and vendors
- Strong communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Support the planning and execution of Underwriting transformation initiatives
- Address Underwriting issues, vendor questions, or technological risks to mitigate impact to project timelines
- Recognize and escalate issues that occur during project execution by tracking action items, risks, and dependencies across cross functional teams
- Work closely with underwriting, technology, and vendor partners to support business requirements gathering and testing
- Assist with scheduling meetings, maintaining project plans, and documenting key decisions
- Prepare status reports, dashboards, and stakeholder updates
- Identify and deliver on opportunities for continuous process improvement
- Maintain project artifacts, including meeting notes, requirements documents, and issue logs
- Ensure updates are reflected in Jira, Confluence, or other project management tools
- Help support adoption activities, including training coordination and user communications
- Report on project metrics including progress, resource utilization, risks and issues
Allied World Assurance Company is a global insurer and reinsurer that provides a range of insurance coverage and risk-transfer solutions to businesses and individuals. It underwrites policies by collecting premiums and generating investment income from its capital reserves, using its $4.9 billion capital base and $16.6 billion in total assets to support about $4.7 billion in gross premiums each year. Its products work by pooling risk: clients pay premiums, the company takes on risk, and, in the case of excess or shared risk, transfers some of that risk to reinsurers to stabilize losses. Allied World differentiates itself through a large, global footprint, a substantial capital base, long-term relationships with clients, steady and reliable service, and industry thought leadership that helps anticipate market trends. Its goal is to deliver dependable coverage and financial protection while pursuing sustainable profitability and trusted guidance for clients.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$4.9B
Headquarters
Baar, Switzerland
Founded
2001
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Gross premiums written grew to $7.4B, expanding revenue base and market competitiveness.
- Secured $275M catastrophe bond at 14% price reduction, optimizing capital deployment efficiency.
- APAC expansion through senior hires positions company for high-growth emerging markets.
What critics are saying
- Fairfax Financial Holdings concentration risk threatens capital allocation and strategic independence.
- D&O and professional lines face elevated litigation inflation and ESG-related shareholder claims.
- Australia property expansion exposes company to catastrophe risk and competitive rate compression.
What makes Allied World Assurance Company unique
- Global reinsurance platform with $7.7B capital and $26.6B assets enables competitive underwriting capacity.
- Maintains superior financial ratings (AM Best A+, S&P AA-, Moody's A2) strengthening client trust.
- Specialized underwriting teams across D&O, property, marine, and environmental liability drive market positioning.
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Her expertise and well-established broker relationships will be instrumental in enhancing our proposition and relevance to our brokers and mutual clients." Arch Insurance International, casualty, general liability, London, Beth Jenkins, Marie-Claire Bessada About Arch Insurance International Arch Insurance International consists of Arch's insurance operations in the United Kingdom, Lloyd's, Europe, Bermuda and Australia. Arch Capital Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACGL) is a publicly listed Bermuda exempted company with approximately $26.4 billion in capital at September 30, 2025. Arch, which is part of the S&P 500 Index, provides insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance on a worldwide basis through its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for forward | looking statements. This release or any other written or oral statements made by or on behalf of Arch Capital Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries may include forward | looking statements, which reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in or incorporated by reference in this release are forward | looking statements. Forward | looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward | looking terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe" or "continue" or their negative or variations or similar terminology. Forward | looking statements involve the Company's current assessment of risks and uncertainties. Actual events and results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. A non-exclusive list of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements includes the following: adverse general economic and market conditions; increased competition; pricing and policy term trends; fluctuations in the actions of rating agencies and the Company's ability to maintain and improve its ratings; investment performance; the loss of key personnel; the adequacy of the Company's loss reserves, severity and/or frequency of losses, greater than expected loss ratios and adverse development on claim and/or claim expense liabilities; greater frequency or severity of unpredictable natural and man-made catastrophic events, including the effect of contagious diseases on its business; the impact of acts of terrorism and acts of war; changes in regulations and/or tax laws in the United States or elsewhere; ability to successfully integrate, establish and maintain operating procedures as well as integrate the businesses the Company has acquired or may acquire into the existing operations; changes in accounting principles or policies; material differences between actual and expected assessments for guaranty funds and mandatory pooling arrangements; availability and cost to the Company of reinsurance to manage its gross and net exposures; the failure of others to meet their obligations to the Company; an incident, disruption in operations or other cyber event caused by cyber attacks, the use of artificial intelligence technologies or other technology on the Company's systems or those of the Company's business partners and service providers, which could negatively impact the Company's business and/or expose the Company to litigation; and other factors identified in its filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The foregoing review of important factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with other cautionary statements that are included herein or elsewhere. All subsequent written and oral forward | looking statements attributable to Arch Capital Group or persons acting on the Company's behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. The Company's forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release or as of the date they are made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward | looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Head of Marketing and Communications, Arch Insurance International
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