Lead Commercial Underwriting Team — Growth & Profit (Hybrid)

Westfield-Insurance; Westfield Center (OH); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Westfield-Insurance in Ohio seeks a Commercial Lines Underwriting Team Lead to oversee underwriting profitability, growth and renewal retention within an assigned territory. You will supervise underwriters, optimize productivity, and ensure sound risk decisions.

You will collaborate with Underwriting Operations and Territory Managers, drive best practices, and develop regional strategies while maintaining strong client and internal stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of underwriting experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or commensurate experience.

Responsibilities

• Monitors performance of commercial lines staff in achieving established goals and participates in the development of branch strategy and business plans.
• Responsible for underwriting profitability growth and retention of new and renewal business, exercises underwriting authority, productivity, prioritization, balancing of workloads, and sound underwriting decisions of underwriters to achieve profit through quality risk selection and exposure control.
• Handles underwriting referrals exceeding the authority limits of their team members.
• Ensures individual authority grants for underwriters are established following a well-calibrated, objective, data-driven process.
• Collaborates with the Underwriting Operations Team and Territory Managers/Leaders, helping drive business development best practices in the underwriting environment, aligned to field operations.
• Partners with the QA underwriting function, utilizing findings to help develop underwriting acumen and decision making of the team.
• Works to increase the overall business and underwriting acumen of the team and its members through one-on-one interactions (e.g., reviewing underwriting decisions, answering questions, listening to phone calls).
• Performs talent management responsibilities including employee selection, performance management, coaching, and development, leading and navigating employee-related issues, employee morale and work environment.
• Manages priorities and workload distribution and removes barriers that impede progress.
• Completes all personnel, salary administration, and reporting duties.
• Remains current on industry topics, trends, methods (e.g., processes), best practices, etc.
• through research, industry events, networking, etc.
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Skills

Underwriting

Leadership

Team management

Risk assessment

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

KPI Tracking

Data Analysis Tools

Job description

Westfield-Insurance in Ohio seeks a Commercial Lines Underwriting Team Lead to oversee underwriting profitability, growth and renewal retention within an assigned territory. You will supervise underwriters, optimize productivity, and ensure sound risk decisions.

You will collaborate with Underwriting Operations and Territory Managers, drive best practices, and develop regional strategies while maintaining strong client and internal stakeholder communication.