Casualty Underwriting Officer, Commercial Accounts
About The Position
Commercial Accounts offers a wide array of guaranteed-cost products to mid-size businesses. Total account solutions include General Liability, Property, Automobile, Workers' Compensation, and Umbrella. As an Underwriting Officer, Commercial Accounts, you are an underwriting subject matter expert and integral member of a field leadership team. By leveraging your expertise to educate underwriters, lead Collaborative Underwriting Review Evaluations (CUREs), and drive the development and successful execution of underwriting strategies, you will influence the overall profitability, growth, and retention of business for an assigned group.
Requirements
- Six years of commercial underwriting experience.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Eight or more years of commercial underwriting experience with experience in commercial accounts.
- Expert level knowledge of risk appetite and risk selection, commercial accounts products, as well as the regulatory environment and local insurance marketplace.
- Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to proactively identify underwriting and 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.
Responsibilities
- Assess, design, implement, and/or lead underwriting strategies and practices in support of profit and growth objectives for assigned group.
- Oversee and influence underwriting execution through individual risk and/or portfolio CUREs as well as through the evaluation of underwriter proficiency and underwriting quality.
- Drive 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.
- Monitor trends, emerging issues, and underwriting results for assigned book of business and partner with underwriting leadership to take action, as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Pension Plan
- 20 days Paid Time Off annually
- nine paid company Holidays
- Wellness Program
- Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
