Underwriter – Environmental – Retail Casualty

Underwriter – Environmental – Retail Casualty

Requirements

• 1+ years of relevant professional experience; Insurance experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university.
• Working knowledge of financial statements and analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work in dynamic, rapidly changing environment, adapting to changing requirements and collaborating with a wide range of colleagues to quickly deliver solutions.
• Ability to facilitate cross-function collaboration, especially regarding technical aspects.
• Detail-oriented with demonstrated ability to self-direct, prioritize work, and meet deadlines.
• Takes initiative on projects and assignments, seeks alternate solutions when necessary.
• Highly motivated and results-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Underwrites NA Casualty Products under general supervision, issuing quotes and policies while ensuring standards and compliance guidelines are met.
• Responsible for underwriting a specific line of business within NA Casualty (i.e. Environmental, Excess or Primary Casualty, NA Auto, WC, AL, GL, DBA, Foreign Casualty).
• Evaluating, prioritizing, and selecting submissions to be underwritten.
• Identifying risk exposures, special or common hazards, claims experience and appropriate controls.
• Analyzing claims and quantifying losses.
• Adhering to guidelines and underwriting discipline to minimize exposure and appropriately price risks.
• Ensuring underwriting files and services standards and compliance guidelines are adhered to on assigned accounts.
• Offering coverage, terms and conditions which generate a profit for the Company while meeting the needs of the customer.
• Capturing market intelligence and broker feedback on accounts.
• Demonstrating strong business acumen, financial and analytical skills, and critical thinking skills which lead to confident decision making and judgment.
• Demonstrating success in negotiation and building collaborative relationships.
• Appropriately balancing changing priorities based upon underwriting needs and performing within time constraints with a high volume of work.
• Selling and negotiating to achieve bottom line profitability for the Company.
• Contributing to development of producer strategies.
• Developing and maintaining a submission pipeline sufficient to achieve overall production and business mix objective.
• Providing superior customer service to brokers and clients (internal & external).

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to NA Casualty products is preferred. (i.e. Environmental, Excess or Primary Casualty, NA Auto, WC, AL, GL, DBA, Foreign Casualty)