Associate Underwriter

Berkley Industrial Comp’s underwriting department focuses on workers’ compensation insurance, partnering closely with underwriting and business engagement teams to support strong renewal outcomes and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Assist underwriters with reviewing, documenting, and preparing renewal files and quotes.
• Work with the underwriting team to successfully renew business and help meet retention goals.
• Collaborate with the underwriting department to review, quote, issue, and retain business.
• Learn all facets of the underwriting job and be trained to become an Underwriter.
• Exercise underwriting authority within defined parameters and work with the underwriting team to quote and bind business.
• Identify monthly renewals and proactively work with underwriters to prepare renewal quotes within a defined set of parameters.
• Prepare BRAT models and BRAT loss modeling for renewal quotes.
• Review, quote, and bind renewal business within assigned authority limits.
• Prepare pertinent renewal information including Experian data, SAFER data, OSHA data, claims data, RAMP data, and pricing data.
• Exercise underwriting authority for small renewal policies between $10k–$25k with oversight from the Underwriter.
• Prepare HAMOGRAK documentation forms for renewal files.
• Collaborate with BIN’s underwriting team to propose renewal pricing quotes.
• Perform other underwriting tasks, projects, and initiatives as set forth by the Director of Underwriting.
• Assist the Business Engagement Department with tasks as workloads and business needs require.
• Communicate with the Business Operations Manager and Business Engagement team members to ensure excellent customer service is maintained.
• Conduct risk exposure research relating to submissions.
• Maintain strong industry knowledge on the Workers Compensation line of business.
• Support the Business Engagement Department as needed, with time spent between Underwriting and Business Engagement fluctuating based on business needs.
• Learn to leverage workers’ compensation underwriting expertise to assess risks to underwrite policies.

Qualifications

• Ability to work as a team player and collaborate with the underwriting department, Business Operations Manager, and Business Engagement team members.
• Positive attitude and willingness to help whenever and wherever needed as business needs arise.
• Interest in learning all facets of the underwriting job and developing workers’ compensation underwriting expertise.

Primary location: Birmingham, AL. Sponsorship is not offered for this role.