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We don’t believe your career defines you; but we do believe you have the power to define your career. Discover your passions and pursue your dreams with tailored training, mentorships, and opportunities to grow! At Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, we do cool stuff. A lotta cool stuff. Our teams work together to develop innovative sales strategies, create disruptive business models, and deliver world class service. To make all of this happen, we have great people with diverse skill sets - including underwriters, sales teams, claims professionals and risk managers - all collaborating and working together with a common goal of improving the experience for every customer in the Berkley Mid-Atlantic enterprise. We set audacious goals, work hard and laugh together. If you’re ready for a challenge and want to work with super people - you know where to find us.
The company is an equal opportunity employer. Responsibilities:
We don’t believe your career defines you; but we do believe you have the power to define your career. Discover your passions and pursue your dreams with tailored training, mentorships, and opportunities to grow! At Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, we do cool stuff. A lotta cool stuff. Our teams work together to develop innovative sales strategies, create disruptive business models, and deliver world class service. To make all of this happen, we have great people with diverse skill sets - including underwriters, sales teams, claims professionals and risk managers - all collaborating and working together with a common goal of improving the experience for every customer in the Berkley Mid-Atlantic enterprise. We set audacious goals, work hard and laugh together. If you’re ready for a challenge and want to work with super people - you know where to find us.
The company is an equal opportunity employer.
The
Senior Underwriter builds dynamic relationships, maintains a strong distribution channel, drives written premium growth, and maximizes renewal retention while delivering a high degree of customer satisfaction within our footprint of Independent Agencies.
Key functions will include but are not limited to:
Strengthens relationships and educates agents within agency plant to maximize opportunities and achieve profitable growth.- Achieves new business premium, renewal premium retention and rate change objectives
- Within company guidelines and granted underwriting authority, evaluates new and renewal information to determines risk acceptability terms/conditions to be quoted, and priced.
- Utilizes various underwriting tools to: determine acceptable risk characteristics; determine accurate exposure classifications; set adequate property limits to accomplish appropriate insurance to value and rate and quote business to agents
- Orders and reviews inspections to confirm accounts written are consistent with preliminary underwriting information and take action when the inspection reveals unacceptable risk characteristics.
- Determines if facultative reinsurance is needed and if so, factors reinsurance cost in gross pricing, completes cession procedures; documents file and follows established workflow procedure to ensure proper reporting / accounting.
- BA/BS degree preferred
- 4+ years of experience working as an Underwriter in Commercial Property & Casualty
- Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining positive relationships.
- Excellent communication skills, including listening for solutions.
- Demonstrates a willingness to collaborate with colleagues and present in a way that influences others.,
- 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.
- Ability to sell and influence others.
- Goal-oriented achiever who delivers results.
- Basic knowledge of computer program in a windows environment, including Word, Excel and Email is mandatory.
- Prior experience working with on-line underwriting tools is preferred (e.g. Silver Plume, and Reference Connect).
- Advanced professional insurance coursework (i.e. CPCU or AU) or completion of other insurance related classes is preferred.
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