Large Accounts Underwriting Manager

About the role

Join our team at EMC, where we foster a collaborative environment to make meaningful impacts. You'll have the chance to grow professionally, contribute to our mission, and gain valuable experience.

Essential Functions

• Enforces Large Account Underwriting team guidelines and procedures for assigned regions.
• Answers questions, provides recommendations for complex situations, communication strategies, or problematic agency relationships and explains the rationale for recommendations.
• Maintains oversight of the team to ensure adherence to set guidelines, authority limits, rate goals, and service directives while aligning pricing with quality across the book of business.
• Collaborates with Large Account Leadership to review updates from Corporate Office Underwriting and communicates changes to team members.
• Develops and sustains strategic relationships with agents and brokers across the entire assigned regional territory.
• Maintains and cultivates the assigned region’s Large Account pipeline of targeted opportunities to expand and strengthen the EMC Large Account portfolio.
• Assesses the impact of evolving legislation and market dynamics to ensure strategic and compliant decision-making within diverse territorial contexts.
• Oversees and monitors the assigned Large Accounts Underwriting team and performs expected people leadership duties.
• Guides underwriters and agents in achieving annual goals.
• Engages with regional field leadership and collaborates with underwriters to oversee existing agency relationships while cultivating new partnerships that drive profitability and restore underperforming or low-growth relationships.
• Identifies opportunities and potential challenges within agency relationships, ensuring strategic solutions.
• Partners with sales and marketing to deliver exceptional customer experiences, enhance underwriting responsiveness, and position EMC as the preferred insurer.
• Performs audits on Large Account new business and renewals for compliance and quality.

Requirements

Location Requirement: Ideal candidate will be located in the DFW area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in insurance or business administration, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Ten years of underwriting experience in the property casualty insurance industry, including at least six years of experience working with large accounts, including composite rating, large deductible, and loss sensitive rating plans or related experience.
• Previous leadership or management experience preferred.
• Insurance designations, such as CPCU, preferred.

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent knowledge of countrywide underwriting techniques, terminology, policies, and forms, along with underwriting risk analysis.
• Excellent underwriting judgment and decision-making skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions.
• Strong computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office and social media.
• Strong ability to work on multiple projects while meeting deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to speak effectively before groups.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to motivate team.
• Able to effectively communicate products, procedures, business planning, and system information.
• Exceptional customer service skills.

Benefits

The hiring salary range for this position will vary based on geographic location, falling within either of the following ranges:

• $121,263 - $174,253 for the lower range.
• $134,038 - $191,687 for the upper range.

For information relating to the benefits EMC Team Members receive as part of a comprehensive rewards package, please visit www.emcins.com/careers.

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