Remote Underwriting Lead — Crop Insurance

ProAg; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

ProAg is seeking an Underwriting Supervisor for the Western Region. This remote USA role leads a high-performing underwriting team, ensuring compliance and quality while shaping crop insurance strategies and supporting agents and customers.

The role emphasizes leadership, process improvements, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver excellent customer service and accurate policy processing across the Western region.

Qualifications

• Six years of underwriting experience or progressive underwriting roles.
• Experience in agriculture or crop insurance.
• Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent education/experience.
• Ability to apply underwriting principles in day-to-day and strategic work.
• Strong written and verbal communication with confidentiality and diplomacy.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and manage underwriting staff through training, coaching, performance management, staffing decisions, workload allocation, and ongoing direction.
• Oversee underwriting operations, maintain workflow expertise, assist with business processing as needed, and support departmental staffing during absences or peak workloads.
• Evaluate underwriting information, make final underwriting determinations, and prepare and process policies and endorsements.
• Support business unit initiatives by gathering and evaluating information, planning and implementing processes and systems, and promoting strategic projects.
• Develop, maintain, and interpret underwriting guidelines, FCIC documentation, and Underwriting Manual standards to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Analyze policy data, support FCIC error resolution efforts, monitor underwriting quality metrics, and manage reporting activities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert by responding to complex inquiries and providing underwriting support to agents, policyholders, applicants, account representatives, clients, and underwriters.
• Collaborate with Sales, Claims, Compliance, Accounting, and other business partners to resolve issues, communicate underwriting policies, and support customer service excellence.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Skills

Underwriting leadership

Agriculture/crop insurance

Communication

Multitasking

Industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Agriculture or Business Administration or related field

Job description

ProAg is seeking an Underwriting Supervisor for the Western Region. This remote USA role leads a high-performing underwriting team, ensuring compliance and quality while shaping crop insurance strategies and supporting agents and customers.

The role emphasizes leadership, process improvements, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver excellent customer service and accurate policy processing across the Western region.