Life Sciences Associate

Berkley•Ewing, NJ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is a key contributor within the Berkley Life Sciences organization, responsible for supporting new business production and servicing of Emerging Account business for an assigned group of producers. The ideal candidate is a developing underwriting professional eager to deepen technical expertise, work across multiple lines of coverage, and contribute to profitable portfolio growth in a dynamic and innovative industry segment. The role involves building strong relationships with brokers through service excellence to meet or exceed financial goals, including growth, profit, retention, and new business. Responsibilities include account solicitation, risk selection and analysis, documentation, pricing, and marketing of Berkley Life Sciences products and services for new and existing customers. The role also contributes to the team’s business development results, identifies opportunities for account rounding, provides technical support to producers and insureds, and stays current with compliance, procedural, and workflow changes. Continuous learning, including underwriting training and life sciences industry education, is expected, as is collaboration with underwriting teammates, operations, legal, home office underwriting, and claims.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Exceptional oral and written communication skills. Your communication style is flexible to the situation. You communicate clearly and with a purpose
Calm under pressure. You have excellent organizational skills, integrity, and great follow-through on tasks.
You are comfortable challenging norms while working collaboratively with colleagues at all levels of the organization
You have a strong sense of accountability, fun and adventure
You have a proven track record of building and maintaining strong business relationships with insureds, agents & brokers.
A strong customer service bias. You want to get to yes. You are known for your super responsiveness. You can say no and preserve your relationships.
Natural curiosity. You love learning how things work and you are always looking for innovative improvements
An analytical mind. You love to dive into the details of an account in order to craft pricing and coverage that meet 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

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