Consultant – Brokerage Excess Underwriting – E&S/Specialty – Renewal Business

Consultant – Brokerage Excess Underwriting – E&S/Specialty – Renewal Business

Requirements

• Eight years CL underwriting experience handling large or complex accounts
• Excess & surplus lines experience preferred
• Undergraduate degree preferred
• Completion of general insurance courses such as CPCU, CIC, AU, ARM, CPIW, CWIS, or ASLI is preferred
• Knowledge of complex CL underwriting policies, practices and procedures, insurance law and underwriting/marketing principles and techniques
• Knowledge of Standard Bureau Rating plans and concepts such as catastrophe management
• Knowledge of Alternative rating methods and plans and pricing theory
• Knowledge of Treaty & Facultative reinsurance
• Knowledge of regulatory issues, the wholesale broker system, market conditions and company operations

Responsibilities

• Researches and develops new classes of business as directed
• Reviews individual risks with assigned brokers and either declines or accepts business based upon information necessary to make the decision
• Achieves team/individual production and loss ratio goals with assigned brokers through sound broker management and marketing
• Oversees or handles policy maintenance items and other mid-term requests
• Fosters positive business relationships with brokers, through frequent contact
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of facultative reinsurance and places reinsurance per department guidelines based upon the appropriate use of all reinsurance facilities used by the department
• Resolves technical questions of the greatest complexity
• Proactively develops technical and business knowledge through internal and external venues

Preferred Qualifications

• Equivalent work experience will be considered in lieu of a degree