Life Sciences Associate

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with internal and external customers and colleagues to ensure meeting or exceeding financial goals including growth, profit, retention, and new business.
• Demonstrate the ability to negotiate and strategize and make sound underwriting decisions within authority.
• Review all new line/endorsement submissions and stay within applicable binding authority.
• Drive renewal process, review upcoming renewals, work with producers to obtain and evaluate all underwriting information, prepare for renewal for the Life Sciences Specialist.
• Manage assigned book to achieve budgeted rate, retention and new business goals.
• Execute proper pricing components and rating methodologies.
• Responsible for account solicitation, risk selection, research and analysis including the corresponding documentation and pricing, and marketing of Berkley Life Sciences products and services for new and existing customers.
• Analyze, assess and select risks in accordance with BLS for account rounding goals.
• Respond to coverage inquiries from producers.
• Stay current with all compliance, procedural and workflow changes.
• Work collaboratively and effectively with underwriters, operations, legal, home office underwriting and claims

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 3 years of associate underwriting experience including products or property, workers compensation and automobile Claims made experience a plus.
• Products Liability experience a plus
• Life Sciences experience a plus
• Calm under pressure
• Excellent organizational skills, integrity, and great follow-through on tasks
• Comfortable challenging norms while working collaboratively with colleagues at all levels of the organization
• Strong sense of accountability, fun and adventure
• Pioneering track record of building and maintaining strong business relationships with insureds, agents & brokers
• Strong customer service bias
• Natural curiosity
• An analytical mind
• Advanced proficiency with the Microsoft suite of products

Benefits

The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees which for this role include:

• Base Salary Range: $70,000 – $120,000