Environmental Casualty Underwriting Leader for Growth

Liberty Mutual Insurance; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Mutual Insurance's North America Specialty Environmental Management team seeks a seasoned underwriting leader to guide complex referrals, monitor profitability and retention, and shape underwriting guidelines and product enhancements. The role includes coaching underwriters, strengthening broker relationships, and traveling to support production across regions.

Requires 7+ years in environmental casualty underwriting and 3+ years of people management, with strong communication and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training plus at least 7 years of relevant environmental casualty production underwriting experience with progressively increasing levels of responsibility.
• Requires at least 3 years of previous people management experience.
• Requires an advanced knowledge of environmental casualty underwriting concepts, practices, procedures and techniques, including, but not limited to coverage issues, product lines, marketing, product competition within the marketplace.
• Knowledge/Underwriting experience for workers compensation for environmental contractors.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interact with brokers, clients, colleagues, and other internal departments.
• Places a high value on collaboration and possesses strong verbal and written communication and organization (multi-tasking) skills.
• Strong negotiation, analytical and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex referrals and support timely, consistent underwriting decisions.
• Monitor premium, rate, retention, profitability, loss trends, capacity, and aggregation exposure.
• Develop and maintain underwriting guidelines, forms, and product enhancements.
• Support EPIC, excess casualty, auto, and environmental contractors’ workers’ compensation strategy.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to underwriters.
• Occasional travel and marketing responsibilities, including client and broker visits to support your assigned production teams and regions.
• Strengthen broker and distribution relationships and support renewal and new-business execution.

Skills

Underwriting concepts

People management

Interpersonal skills

Verbal and written communication

Collaboration

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Decision-making

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Liberty Mutual Insurance's North America Specialty Environmental Management team seeks a seasoned underwriting leader to guide complex referrals, monitor profitability and retention, and shape underwriting guidelines and product enhancements. The role includes coaching underwriters, strengthening broker relationships, and traveling to support production across regions.

Requires 7+ years in environmental casualty underwriting and 3+ years of people management, with strong communication and