Commercial Lines Senior Casualty Placement Consultant

This role can be fully remote for candidates located within our Central Region states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.

About the Role

Provides expert technical support to clients and members of USI’s Commercial Lines Account Management and Sales Executive teams to analyze, design, market, price, and place risks. Makes fact-based recommendations to clients to solve their most complex insurance issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance, coaching, and development to the Casualty Analytics team. Make recommendations for improvement.
• Assess clients’ contractual liabilities and alignment with their insurance policies and make recommendations for improvement.
• Recognize trends and create client-facing summaries modeling policy options.
• Support Sales Executives in providing data and proposals for prospective clients.
• Negotiate underwriting terms and pricing with carrier underwriting partners on behalf of clients and Account Management teams.
• Work closely with claims and risk control teams to develop new loss control strategies, ideas, and processes.
• Take part in recruiting efforts and train new hires.
• Steer the development of department policies on a national and local basis.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Commercial Lines agency and/or carrier experience with strong underwriting, marketing, and technical insurance expertise.
• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of placement/marketing experience working with large commercial accounts ($1M+ in annual premium).
• Must hold or be willing to obtain a Property & Casualty insurance license.
• Industry designation such as ARM, CIC, or CPCU preferred.

Skills

• Deep technical knowledge of commercial insurance coverages, markets, and underwriting principles.
• Strong business acumen, negotiation, analytical, and data interpretation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with carriers, producers, and internal partners.
• Comfortable utilizing internet-based applications and Microsoft Office products.
• Knowledge of Sagitta and/or ImageRight preferred, but not required.

Benefits

USI offers a wide range of health, welfare, and financial benefits including:

• Medical, wellness, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and other unique employer-sponsored and voluntary programs.
• Generous paid time off policy, paid family leave benefit, and paid holiday time.
• Employee programs that recognize outstanding achievement and support healthy, productive lives, including award-winning wellness programs, college scholarships for associates' children, and financial assistance in times of need.
• Summit Awards program, rewarding excellence in those who build the USI brand.

Pay

Salary Range: $130,000.00 - $145,000.00. This is a bonus-eligible position with a target incentive of 10%.