Vice President Of Commercial Lines Operations

Commercial Lines, Strata, and Underwriting each play an important role in protecting our clients and supporting the strength of Schill's commercial practice. As Vice President of Commercial Lines Operations, you provide leadership across these teams, translating organizational priorities into clear direction while creating alignment, accountability, and support leaders need to succeed. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you strengthen performance, underwriting discipline, client and partner experiences, and collaboration across the commercial practice while supporting sustainable growth and profitability.
ResponsibilitiesCommercial Practice & Operational Excellence
Oversee operational performance across Commercial Lines Service, Strata, and Underwriting, ensuring priorities, workflows, and service expectations are clear and aligned.
Establish and monitor meaningful performance measures to understand service levels, retention, workload, portfolio health, and overall practice effectiveness.
Use operational insight, market conditions, and team feedback to identify risks, capacity needs, and opportunities for improvement.
Lead or support improvements to processes, technology, resources, and ways of working that strengthen consistency, efficiency, and long-term scalability.
Leadership & Team Development
Coach and support team leads and other commercial leaders, building their confidence, judgement, leadership capability, and ownership of results.
Set clear expectations for leadership performance and ensure accountability, development needs, and team concerns are addressed appropriately and early.
Create regular opportunities for leaders across Commercial Lines, Strata, and Underwriting to align priorities, share insight, and solve issues together.
Assess leadership capacity and team structure as the commercial practice evolves, ensuring responsibilities and decision-making remain clear.
Client, Broker & Market Experience
Champion a consistent 5-star experience across Commercial Lines and Strata while ensuring Underwriting provides responsive, professional support to brokers and internal partners.
Ensure significant client, broker, insurer, or operational concerns are escalated appropriately and resolved with sound judgment and follow-through.
Maintain strong relationships with key insurer and market partners and ensure relevant market insight is shared across the commercial practice.
Keep teams responsive to changing client needs, insurer appetite, underwriting expectations, and broader market conditions.
Underwriting & Portfolio Oversight
Oversee the performance and direction of Schill's in-house underwriting programs, supporting profitable growth, appropriate risk selection, and strong retention.
Ensure underwriting guidelines, rating practices, procedures, policy wordings, and decision authorities remain clear, current, and consistently applied.
Monitor underwriting performance, documentation, reporting, and portfolio trends, identifying concerns or opportunities that require action.
Ensure the Underwriting team works effectively with Commercial Lines and Strata while maintaining appropriate underwriting discipline and judgement.
Strategic Alignment & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Bring the Commercial Lines, Strata, and Underwriting perspective into executive discussions, identifying emerging risks, opportunities, resource needs, and operational priorities.
Partner with Commercial Sales, Business Development, Learning & Development, People & Culture, Finance, IT, and other teams where priorities or changes affect commercial operations.
Ensure organizational initiatives are appropriately prioritized and translated into realistic expectations for commercial teams.
Strengthen alignment and handoffs between Commercial Lines, Strata, Underwriting, and other areas of Schill so teams can work effectively towards shared goals.
Success FactorsHow You Show Up
Clear, credible communicator who creates direction without overcomplicating the message
Calm and practical decision-maker, comfortable balancing client needs, team realities, risk, and business results
Strong leadership presence that builds trust while maintaining clear expectations for accountability and follow-through
Able to stay connected to operational realities while keeping leaders accountable for day-to-day ownership
What You Know
Level 2 license required, Level 3 preferred.
CAIB, CIP, or CRM an asset.
Significant progressive commercial insurance experience, including senior leadership responsibility within a complex insurance operation
Strong knowledge of underwriting governance, risk selection, rating and policy guidelines, and portfolio performance
Strong understanding of commercial insurance operations, insurer relationships, renewals and retention, underwriting principles, and market dynamics
Proficiency with Epic and comfort working with underwriting systems, operational data, performance measures, and reporting.
About UsAt Schill Insurance, we've grown from a small, one-person office into a trusted brokerage with multiple locations across British Columbia. While we're part of a larger national network, we've stayed true to our roots as a family-operated business that values people first.
Our culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and continuous growth. We invest in our team through coaching, training, and development opportunities - because when our people succeed, so do our clients.
Why Join Schill Insurance?
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
Extended health, dental, vision care, and RRSP matching
Paid education, licensing, and professional development
Supportive, team-oriented work environment
Opportunities for career growth and advancement
Work-life balance with consistent scheduling and no Sunday shifts
Three weeks (15 days) of vacation to start
Three paid "You" days per year (volunteer day, personal day, and your birthday off with pay)
$600 annual wellness spending account
As part of our hiring process, successful candidates must consent to a background/credit check and employment verification screening before starting employment.
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