Hybrid Director of Large Accounts Underwriting

at Zenith Insurance Company (United States)

• Job title: Director of Large Accounts Underwriting
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $138,079 - $189,858 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Woodland Hills, United States

About the role

• Director of Large Accounts Underwriting within a Workers' Compensation team at Zenith. Strengthening underwriting standards and collaborating across departments to enhance operations.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen underwriting quality standards in Field Offices through interaction with underwriters on individual accounts and structured group training.
• Establish strong working relationships with Zenith's Field Underwriting, Marketing, Actuarial, Communications and Safety & Health departments to enhance and improve communication, elevate and explore concepts, to strengthen our operations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in policy systems and a business lead in development of reports and resources to continue to enhance our capabilities and processes.
• Support various Corporate Underwriting projects that strategically assist Field Underwriting execution.
• Partner with Underwriting Managers on issues central to underwriting execution, including staff development, underwriting appetite and pricing strategy.
• Involved in project management roles with Actuarial team regarding state forms and product filings.
• Work across departments to help solve organizational data and information delivery issues.
• Build cross regional relationships to enhance communications, share processes, elevate and explore concepts, and facilitate the strengthening of our operations.
• Engage with other departments to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions to standardize approach to analysis and enhance execution.
• Apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Works productively and harmoniously with others on a consistent basis.
• Respond positively to direction and feedback on performance.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent combination of training/experience required.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of training/experience required.
• 8+ years any combination of education and experience with large accounts underwriting that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• 8+ years of experience in commercial underwriting or product management experience required.
• Hands-on experience with loss-sensitive workers' compensation underwriting
• Candidate should be a quick study, be comfortable and effective in marketing settings and have intermediate Excel skills.
• Candidate needs to be a self-starter with ability to manage multiple and disparate tasks and projects with the highest standard of responsiveness to the Field’s needs.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Parental Leave
• Life, AD&D and Disability Insurance
• 401(k), Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Education and Training Reimbursement
• Paid Leave: 3 weeks/year
• Vacation, 2 weeks/year
• Sick Leave
• 10 paid Company Holidays, 2 Personal Days, 2 Floating Holidays
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)