Executive Bond Underwriter – Contract Surety

Executive Bond Underwriter – Contract Surety

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 3 + years of underwriting experience preferred
• Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining solid relationships with all internal and external business partners
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• An ability to think analytically about business problems, make recommendations and propose solutions
• High energy self-starter, who is resilient and has an entrepreneurial spirit
• Demonstration of solid time, organizational, and desk management skills
• Goal-oriented and delivers outcomes
• Ability to challenge the status quo and compete to win
• Superior technical knowledge and sound decision-making and analytical skills
• Valid driver’s license

Responsibilities

• Rigorously analyze underwriting information and assess most complex risk within the framework of company standards
• Maintain disciplined adherence to underwriting and service standards
• A high degree of decision-making authority in the regional office and look at book of business issues
• Weigh decisions between underwriting standards and customer needs and expectations
• Balance risk relative to return to make effective and acceptable underwriting decisions
• Conduct client meetings/agency calls
• Cultivate customer and producer relationships to promote Bond products and services within the regional office
• Seek out resources to identify and satisfy customer and producer needs
• Share pertinent information to support product development, market research and identification of business opportunities between Bond lines of business and other Hartford business units
• Develop and implement strategy across the regional office
• Effectively utilize the Bond Center to support sales and service objectives
• Ensure achievement of financial goals and business plan objectives
• Utilize internal underwriting system efficiently and effectively

Preferred Qualifications

• A customer-first mindset, putting our customers at the center of everything you do
• A passion for making decisions through both analyzing data and employing critical thinking skills
• A team spirit and desire to work collaboratively
• A financial mindset to help make the best decisions
• Ability to own our work and following through on commitments
• Ability to decipher and execute within a fluid and changing business environment
• An understanding of how to build relationships and trust among diverse groups
• The ability to advance their careers into technical OR leadership positions