Associate Underwriting Officer, Northfield

Travelers • Hartford, AR

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About The Position

Northfield E&S underwrites property, casualty, and specialty insurance for the excess and surplus (E&S) marketplace. As an Associate Underwriting Officer, you will be a critical bridge between underwriting strategy and operational execution, working primarily with Northfield Contract Binding while collaborating across Northfield Brokerage to ensure consistency, quality, and continuous improvement throughout our binding authority business. This role offers a unique blend of technical underwriting expertise and organizational impact. You'll develop and maintain underwriting guidelines that shape how we assess risk, serve as the primary liaison between the BI Centralized Quality Assurance (QA) team and field operations to drive compliance and corrective actions, and act as a referral point for complex underwriting decisions. You'll also leverage emerging technology and AI—working closely with business partners throughout BI and the broader Enterprise—to innovate how we create and deliver underwriting content, ensuring our underwriters and general agents have the tools and guidance they need to operate effectively within authority and appetite.

Requirements

• Five years of commercial underwriting experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Six or more years of commercial underwriting experience with experience in Excess & Surplus underwriting.
• Knowledge of risk appetite and risk selection, Excess & Surplus lines products, as well as the regulatory environment and local insurance marketplace.
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to proactively identify underwriting, marketing, or financial challenges and analyze available information to make timely decisions in alignment with risk appetite.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead and influence others.
• CPCU designation.

Responsibilities

• Aid in assessing, recommending, and implementing underwriting strategies and practices in support of profit and growth objectives for assigned group.
• Support successful underwriting execution through individual risk and/or portfolio CUREs as well as through the evaluation of underwriter proficiency and underwriting quality.
• Contribute to the development of key underwriting capabilities and best practices through coaching and trainings while educating underwriters on strategy and guidelines to enhance efficiency and effectiveness for assigned group.
• Assist in monitoring trends, emerging issues, and underwriting results for assigned book of business.
• Partner with underwriting leadership to take action, as needed.
• May manage the profitability, growth, and retention of an assigned book of business.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees