Strategic Distribution and Growth Lead at Zurich Canada focusing on broker and customer partnerships while supporting market expansion. Analyzing risks and enhancing client engagement for business growth.
About the role
- Senior Production Underwriting Specialist managing Excess Liability for Great American Insurance Group. Focusing on risk selection, pricing, and maintaining key customer relationships in the insurance sector.
Responsibilities
- Has responsibility for risk selection/rejection, pricing, retention, growth, and profitability per divisional objectives
- Uses independent judgment and initiative to support business goals
- Maintains a high level of customer service
- Analyzes coverage and limit requests and decides what terms to offer
- Prices business in accordance with company guidelines
- Assesses risk quality and compliance within company guidelines and initiates appropriate loss prevention actions
- Orders and screens miscellaneous reports needed in the rating and underwriting processes, such as Motor Vehicle reports, loss history reports, credit checks, outside inspections, loss control, etc.
- Develops and maintains effective business relationships with internal and external customers/coworkers in order to attract and retain profitable business
- Visits agents, brokers, and producers in order to retain existing accounts, build, and maintain business relationships and develop new opportunities in support of divisional objectives
- Interprets, explains, and markets products and services
- Administers, applies, and may update underwriting rules and guidelines, rating manual rules and insurance laws and regulations
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- Generally, 10+ years of Casualty underwriting experience; a minimum of 3 years of Umbrella and Excess Casualty underwriting experience is highly desired
- Effective communication and negotiation skills to build and leverage excellent customer relationships and to successfully market products and services
- Position requires frequent day and overnight travel, more than 10% but less than 50% of time to visit agents and brokers
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Wellness plans
- Parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid Time Off
- Paid holidays
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Commuter benefits
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