Life Sciences Underwriter

About the role

Berkley Life Sciences, part of the W. R. Berkley Corporation (a Fortune 500 company listed on the NYSE), delivers specialized insurance products and services to the life science marketplace. The team is composed of experienced professionals focused on innovation, creativity, and teamwork, serving as a preferred market for life science innovators worldwide with a broad range of property & casualty solutions.

This role is a key contributor within Berkley Life Sciences, supporting new business production and servicing of Emerging Account business for an assigned group of producers while fostering strong producer partnerships and contributing to profitable portfolio growth. Ideal for a developing underwriting professional eager to deepen technical expertise across multiple lines of coverage.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with brokers through service excellence to ensure you meet or exceed financial goals including growth, profit, retention, and new business.
• Responsible for account solicitation, risk selection and analysis including the corresponding documentation, pricing and marketing of Berkley Life Sciences products and services for new and existing customers.
• Key contributor to team’s business development results for assigned producers
• Identify opportunities for account rounding
• Provide technical support to producers and insureds
• Stay current with all compliance, procedural and workflow changes.
• Demonstrate continuous learning, including participation in underwriting training and life sciences industry education
• Work collaboratively and effectively with underwriting teammates, operations, legal, home office underwriting and claims

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills; flexible communication style; clear and purposeful communication
• Calm under pressure; excellent organizational skills, integrity, great follow-through on tasks
• Comfortable challenging norms while working collaboratively with colleagues at all levels
• Strong sense of accountability, fun and adventure
• Proven track record of building and maintaining strong business relationships with insureds, agents & brokers; strong customer service bias; desire to get to yes; super responsiveness; ability to say no while preserving relationships
• Natural curiosity; love learning how things work; always looking for innovative improvements
• Analytical mind; love to dive into account details to craft pricing and coverage meeting underwriting guidelines, profitability models, and customer needs
• Minimum of 2 years underwriting or associate underwriting experience in products liability, property, workers compensation, automobile and umbrella
• Claims made experience a plus
• Life Sciences Products Liability experience a plus
• Travel opportunities, primarily to build relationships with assigned producers (primary location: Ewing, NJ; additional locations: Naperville, IL; Boston, MA)
• Sponsorship not offered for this role

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• Disability
• Wellness
• Paid time off
• 401(k)
• Profit-sharing plans

Pay

Base Salary Range: $70,000–$105,000; eligible to participate in annual discretionary bonus. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.