Ag Underwriting Manager

FBL Financial Group, Inc.•Lincoln, NE

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members trust us to help protect their families, homes, vehicles, and livelihoods. For more than 80 years, we’ve built a reputation grounded in integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership, and accountability. We’re equally committed to fostering an environment where employees can learn, grow, and thrive. As an Ag Underwriting Manager you will manage the development, measurement, and modification of all ag property/casualty underwriting best practices and procedures to achieve corporate and business unit goals in all states for all ag property/casualty lines of business.

Requirements

College degree or equivalent plus 5 years of relevant experience required.
Must keep current with new ag trends.
Excellent leadership, oral and written communication skills.
Proven ability to negotiate for competing resources and to generate consensus among multiple priority projects.
Travel required, including over stays.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis.

Nice To Haves

CPCU preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Ag Underwriters in accepting, modifying, or rejecting various Ag underwriting business risks.
Collaborate with underwriters and business units to train and ensure alignment with underwriting eligibility for all ag property/casualty lines of business.
Achieve Underwriting Best Practices compliance based on company direction. This includes but is not limited to making sure that work is properly assigned and that files meet or exceed underwriting best practices.
Work with key areas of the company to improve the underwriting experience for the client/member, agent and company.
Work with business unit leaders and shared service leaders to determine ag underwriting objectives, goals and scope.
Facilitate the development of program roadmaps based on priorities, dependencies, resource needs and benefits.
Oversee staff development aspects including the selection, training/development, disciplining/performance review, salary administration, referring employees complaints, controlling workflow, motivation of employees, and assigned budget activities.
Respond to inquiries and concerns from policyholders, agents, regulatory agencies and the general public regarding underwriting decisions within the Business Center.