Middle Market Senior Underwriter at The Jacobson Group North Carolina

The Jacobson Group

North Carolina

On-site

USD 80,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

The Jacobson Group is seeking a Middle Market Senior Underwriter in North Carolina. This role involves managing a profitable renewal book of commercial lines and enhancing technical underwriting skills. Key responsibilities include underwriting profitability management, assessing client risk, and fostering agency relationships. Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years of commercial underwriting experience and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field. This position is critical for delivering exceptional customer service and strategic oversight in the insurance domain.

Qualifications

3-5 years of commercial underwriting experience required.
Bachelor's degree in business or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage underwriting profitability and retention of new and renewal business.
Collect and assess information to evaluate potential clients.
Develop relationships with agencies and producers to understand their needs.

Skills

Commercial underwriting experience

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related discipline

Job description

Middle Market Senior Underwriter job at The Jacobson Group. North Carolina.

Job Description

Our client, a regional property and casualty insurance company providing personal insurance, commercial insurance and surety products in all 50 states, is seeking a Middle Market Senior Underwriter. This role is responsible for the managing and servicing of a profitable renewal book of commercial lines business, while working to grow and strengthen technical underwriting ability. The role focuses on learning and mastering underwriting skills and actively participating in the monthly renewal strategy meeting. The role acts as an account steward for the customer and as a key point of contact for the agency, maintaining and implementing appropriate service strategies to deliver our customer service commitment to the customer. Candidates should reside in the greater Charlotte, North Carolina area.

Responsibilities

Manages the underwriting profitability growth and retention of new and renewal business that is consistent with underwriting strategies.
Collects appropriate and accurate information required to assess potential clients and decides on the acceptable risk for a policy.
Compares various policies having similar risk undertaking and conducts actuarial studies to decide on the company's loss records.
Develops relationships with agencies, producers and other distribution partners (producers), and works to understand their needs.
Leverages portfolio underwriting of the book and territory, leveraging analytics and information garnered through BI and other sources.
Provides leadership with feedback on product, pricing and rate/rule activities of the competition and reviews high value inspections for assigned agencies.
Strives to create and build effective communication externally (between agents and company) and internally (within the company) regarding underwriting procedures and practices, growth/profit goals and objectives, and agency relations.
Negotiates with agents to reach positive and profitable outcomes and coordinates and owns agency business plans and key activities with oversight from region leader.
Develops and maintains an operating knowledge of company's standardized hardware, software programs, third party software and processing procedures.
Influences current and prospective agencies, producers, and other distribution partners to represent and promote Westfield products and services to customers.
Answers questions from agencies, producers, distribution partner policyholders or other external contacts, and escalates issues to leadership as necessary.
Collaborates with and leverages corporate shared services functions to bring the competitive strategy to life and achieve results; aligns with corporate governance while maintaining a singular focus on the customer.