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Commercial Lines Underwriting Specialist

The Mutual Group · Mississippi, United States · 1 mo ago
$74k–$110k/yrFull-time
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for each section heading: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should only include sections that have real specific content. We have: - About the role: maybe the introductory paragraph: "As an Underwriting Specialist, you are responsible for managing a book of business for profitability and growth..." That's about the role. - Responsibilities: The "Accountabilities" section includes many bullet-like statements. Could be responsibilities. - Requirements: Qualifications section includes education, experience, etc. - Skills: maybe we can extract skills from qualifications: analytical, problem solving, communication, Excel, etc. Could be a Skills section. - Benefits: explicit Benefits section. - Pay: Pay Range section. - Schedule: Work Arrangement section includes hybrid/remote info. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, bot-filtering, etc. Remove those. We must preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. Must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Pay range is specific. We must use
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    for prose. We need to decide what to put as lists. Let's extract content. Intro paragraph: "As an Underwriting Specialist, you are responsible for managing a book of business for profitability and growth. You will review both new and/or renewal business, assess risk of coverage, prepare quotes and respond to coverage questions, within the assigned authority level. In this role you will also build successful relationships with agents to drive increased, positive business flow. To be successful in this role you will work under limited supervision and exercise significant independent judgement in performing work. Based on location and requirements of the role, this position will either be a hybrid or a remote position." That's prose; could be About the role. Work Arrangement: "Employees who live within 30 miles of the TMG home office are expected to follow a hybrid or in-office schedule. The initial training period may require additional in‑office days." That's schedule. Accountabilities: multiple bullet points. We'll turn each sentence into

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Let's list them: - Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by: - Analyzing, selecting and profitably pricing business with prescriptive terms and conditions of coverage - Examining inspection reports, location, risk, financial and other available tools and reports to identify new or unresolved concerns - Communicating with Risk Control for inspections, follow ups and service needs for insureds - Driving corrective action or remediation strategies on renewal accounts - Escalating referrals, in a timely manner, on accounts that need additional review or approval by higher level underwriters - Adhering to service expectations and regulatory compliance by the timely release of renewals, non-renewals and conditional notices - Accountable for achieving key performance indicators of the portfolio including: (maybe no further detail) - Developing and furthering successful relationships with distribution partners within the portfolio by: - Having regularly scheduled portfolio review calls - Meeting voice of the customer guidelines - Limited travel to distribution partner offices - Consistently meeting our voice of the customer standards - Coordinating with distribution team to building pipeline, resolve issues, concerns or conflict and oversee change management - Communicating regularly with portfolio team members on health of assigned agencies and market conditions that could impact the portfolio - Cultivate a High Performing Culture - Superior customer service and business acumen - Mentoring support staff throughout their career development. - Conduct peer audits and approve underwriting decisions (LOAs) for lower authority levels. - Assist in the training of new hires and internal promotions by providing continuous mentoring and feedback to foster successful employee development. - Reviewing, mentoring, and approving referrals for lower authority level associates - Perform other related work as assigned. We need to decide if we keep sub-bullets. Probably flatten to simple list items. Qualifications: list: - Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance or related field of study preferred. - Holding or working towards an insurance designation preferred (CPCU, IIA, etc.). - Seven years of progressively responsible experience in commercial underwriting, including one to three years in a property and casualty insurance company. - Experience writing business for churches or religious affiliated institutions preferred. - Broad knowledge of common terms, practices, processes and regulations in the P&C insurance industry. - An ability to consistently apply advanced underwriting concepts and practices within the P&C underwriting field. - Adept at applying negotiating skills, reasonableness and exercising sound judgment in analysis and decision making processes. - Ability to convey clear & concise information to others utilizing excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Advanced analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills. - Strong customer service orientation. - Advanced knowledge of Microsoft products including a strong foundation in Excel (pivot tables, vlookups, etc.) for the purpose of strategic analysis. - Strong attention to numeric and other details. - Strong customer service orientation. (duplicate) - Organizational skills and ability to manage large work volume and meet tight deadlines. We can deduplicate duplicate "Strong customer service orientation". Keep one. Skills: maybe we can extract from qualifications: analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, negotiation, Excel, organizational, etc. But we already have qualifications; maybe we can combine qualifications and skills? The instruction says use headings for sections like Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can have Qualifications and Skills separate if there is distinct content. The qualifications list includes many skill-like items; we could treat them as Qualifications (education, experience) and Skills (abilities). But to avoid duplication, we could put all under Qualifications and omit Skills if no distinct skill-only content. However we need to follow instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Qualifications and Skills into one Qualifications section, or we could have Qualifications (education/experience) and Skills (abilities). Let's see if there is distinct skill content: "Advanced analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills." "Ability to convey clear & concise information..." "Adept at applying negotiating skills, reasonableness and exercising sound judgment..." "Advanced knowledge of Microsoft products including a strong foundation in Excel..." "Strong attention to numeric and other details." "Organizational skills and ability to manage large work volume and meet tight deadlines." Those are skills. The education/experience items: Bachelor's degree, insurance designation, seven years experience, experience writing business for churches, broad knowledge of terms, ability to apply advanced underwriting concepts. Those could be qualifications. Thus we can have Qualifications (education/experience/knowledge) and Skills (abilities). That seems reasonable. Benefits: list from Benefits section. Pay: Pay Range. Schedule: Work Arrangement. Now we need to output HTML fragment with

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              with work arrangement text. We must ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Check for any duplicated lines: we have duplicate "Strong customer service orientation." We'll keep one. Now let's extract exact text. About the role paragraph: "As an Underwriting Specialist, you are responsible for managing a book of business for profitability and growth. You will review both new and/or renewal business, assess risk of coverage, prepare quotes and respond to coverage questions, within the assigned authority level. In this role you will also build successful relationships with agents to drive increased, positive business flow. To be successful in this role you will work under limited supervision and exercise significant independent judgement in performing work. Based on location and requirements of the role, this position will either be a hybrid or a remote position." We'll keep that. Responsibilities list items: need to capture each bullet from Accountabilities. Let's list them clearly: 1. Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by: - Analyzing, selecting and profitably pricing business with prescriptive terms and conditions of coverage - Examining inspection reports, location, risk, financial and other available tools and reports to identify new or unresolved concerns - Communicating with Risk Control for inspections, follow ups and service needs for insureds - Driving corrective action or remediation strategies on renewal accounts - Escalating referrals, in a timely manner, on accounts that need additional review or approval by higher level underwriters - Adhering to service expectations and regulatory compliance by the timely release of renewals, non-renewals and conditional notices 2. Accountable for achieving key performance indicators of the portfolio including: (no further detail; maybe we can skip as it's vague; but it's part of responsibilities. Could be a list item: "Accountable for achieving key performance indicators of the portfolio". We'll include. 3. Developing and furthering successful relationships with distribution partners within the portfolio by: - Having regularly scheduled portfolio review calls - Meeting voice of the customer guidelines - Limited travel to distribution partner offices - Consistently meeting our voice of the customer standards - Coordinating with distribution team to building pipeline, resolve issues, concerns or conflict and oversee change management - Communicating regularly with portfolio team members on health of assigned agencies and market conditions that could impact the portfolio 4. Cultivate a High Performing Culture - Superior customer service and business acumen - Mentoring support staff throughout their career development. - Conduct peer audits and approve underwriting decisions (LOAs) for lower authority levels. - Assist in the training of new hires and internal promotions by providing continuous mentoring and feedback to foster successful employee development. - Reviewing, mentoring, and approving referrals for lower authority level associates - Perform other related work as assigned. We need to flatten: each bullet as

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            • items. Thus list items: - Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by analyzing, selecting and profitably pricing business with prescriptive terms and conditions of coverage - Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by examining inspection reports, location, risk, financial and other available tools and reports to identify new or unresolved concerns - Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by communicating with Risk Control for inspections, follow ups and service needs for insureds - Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by driving corrective action or remediation strategies on renewal accounts - Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by escalating referrals, in a timely manner, on accounts that need additional review or approval by higher level underwriters - Delivers profitable outcomes on less complex niche business through effective risk selection by adhering to service expectations and regulatory compliance by the timely release of renewals, non-renewals and conditional notices - Accountable for achieving key performance indicators of the portfolio - Developing and furthering successful relationships with distribution partners within the portfolio by having regularly scheduled portfolio review calls - Developing and furthering successful relationships with distribution partners within

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