Senior Underwriter (multiline P&C production role)

Responsibilities

• Evaluates information to determine risk acceptability in accordance with company guidelines.
• Makes appropriate decisions based on evaluation of underwriting information.
• Pricing risks per company standards.
• Effectively communicates and negotiates underwriting and pricing decisions to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Pursues sales-like leads through developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients, brokers, and agents to drive new business opportunities.
• Documents decisions in accordance with regulatory standards.
• Acts with a sense of urgency on all inquiries/requests.
• Provides outstanding customer service.
• Builds effective working relationships with assigned agency personnel as well as internal company staff.
• Drives acceptable levels of new business opportunities through effective marketing to assigned agents.
• Effectively communicates with assigned agents the appropriate level of information to ensure understanding of company direction.
• Attends agency conferences and conducts seminars and breakout sessions.
• Participates and leads special projects as assigned.
• Handles a moderate number of agency assignments.
• Participates in annual planning meetings with assigned agents.
• Participates in quarterly stewardship meetings with key agents.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree and at least five years of relevant experience or equivalent is required.
• Equivalent experience is defined as a minimum of nine or more years of commercial insurance underwriting-related experience.
• Commercial multi-line experience.
• Thorough knowledge of the insurance industry.
• Excellent knowledge and application of negotiation techniques to day-to-day interactions with agents and customers to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Excellent knowledge of pricing techniques to achieve company objectives.
• Excellent knowledge of complex coverage features such as large deductibles and their impact on coverage and pricing.
• Ability to appropriately utilize loss control to minimize risk to the company.
• Ability to understand reinsurance and company's approach.
• Ability to make appropriate underwriting decisions for risks within a limited range of context and situations.
• Ability to understand loss development and advanced loss analysis concepts in underwriting and pricing risks.
• Ability to make individual account decisions that maximize the performance of the entire portfolio.
• 10% travel required.
• Preferred to have experience specializing in underwriting of moving and storage.
• Umbrella experience.