Senior Marine Underwriter (Commercial Marine Liability)

One80 Intermediaries; Georgia (VT); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance wholesaler seeks a Senior Marine Underwriter to manage underwriting for marine liabilities. The role involves developing agent relationships, evaluating risks, and ensuring profitable growth. Candidates should have extensive underwriting experience and a Bachelor's degree.

Qualifications

• Six plus years of commercial marine underwriting experience.
• Proficiency with technical underwriting and risk/rate relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage underwriting territory to achieve profitable growth.
• Develop relationships with agents to maximize opportunities.
• Evaluate new and renewal account information to determine risk acceptability.

Skills

Technical Underwriting

Risk Evaluation

Agent Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Word

Excel

Job description

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Senior Marine Underwriter (Commercial Marine Liability)

Apply locations Remote - Connecticut Remote - Louisiana Remote - Texas Remote - New Hampshire Remote - Alabama time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id JR102384

We're seeking a Senior Ocean Marine Underwriting Expert to join our team. In this role, you'll partner with agents and brokers to provide tailored coverage for businesses in marine liabilities, & hull/protection indemnity. You will manage an assigned underwriting territory to achieve profitable growth, including underwriting new business, renewals, endorsements and other transactions. Identify new business opportunities and manage agency relationships.

Your Impact:

• Develop relationships and educate agents within agency plant to maximize opportunities and achieve profitable growth

• Initiate outbound calls to agencies to identify sales opportunities and collect agent intelligence

• Achieve new business premium, renewal premium retention and rate change objectives

• Within company guidelines and granted underwriting authority, evaluate new and renewal account information to determine risk acceptability, terms / conditions to be quoted, and pricing

• Make sound risk and pricing decisions that achieve profitable loss ratios

• Document underwriting file to support acceptability and pricing in accordance with company guidelines

• Achieve customer service standards, including established objectives for:

  • New business quote turnaround

  • Renewal quotes

  • Endorsement, cancellation, audits and other transactions

  • Policy issuance

• Provide detailed issuance instructions to ensure policy is delivered consistent with quoted terms and conditions and in accordance with established guidelines relative to policy construction

• Review mid-term endorsement requests for acceptability and provide instructions for processing

• Order and review inspections to confirm accounts written are consistent with preliminary underwriting information and takes action when the inspection reveals unacceptable risk characteristics

• Determine if facultative reinsurance is needed and if so, factor reinsurance cost in gross pricing, complete cession procedures; documentation file, and follow established workflow procedure to ensure proper reporting / accounting.

• Utilize various underwriting tools to:

  • Determine acceptable risk characteristics

  • Determine accurate exposure classifications

  • Set adequate property limits to accomplish appropriate insurance to value

  • Rate and quote business to agents

Successful Candidates Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree and six plus years of commercial marine underwriting experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Proficiency with technical underwriting, including exposure identification, coverage evaluation, understand and applying appropriate risk / rate relationships, and file documentation in support of underwriting decisions

• Demonstrated success in commercial lines property casualty insurance businesses

• Basic proficiency with computer programs in a Windows environment, including Word, Excel and E-mail is required

• Experience working with independent agents is preferred

• Advanced professional insurance coursework (i.e., CPCU, ASLI, and AU) or completion of other-insurance related classes is preferred

One80 Marine is a specialty insurance program company, with 30+ years of in-house underwriting experience. On land or on the water, in recreational or commercial activities, we are the right choice for independent agents and brokers who need access to Marine Insurance expertise and solutions. The One80 Marine model provides brokers with comprehensive packaged solutions, top-quality coverage, and unsurpassed service. We are aligned with the best carriers in the industry and we have the most underwriting experience in our segments.

One80 Intermediaries is a privately held firm with offices throughout the US and Canada. As a leading insurance wholesaler and program manager, One80 offers placement services and binding authority for property and casualty, life, travel/accident and health, affinity and administrative services, and warranty business. Launched just four years ago, One80 Intermediaries has grown to be one of the largest intermediaries in the United States. In 2024, we were ranked 14th largest broker in the U.S. by Business Insurance.

One80 Intermediaries is an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Learn more about working at One80 Intermediaries by visiting our careers page: www.one80.com/careers .

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One80 Intermediaries offers market leading access to major insurance markets in the US, UK, Canada and Asia, as well as exclusive programs and in-house binding authority for property & casualty, financial lines, personal lines, life insurance, medical stop loss risks, travel/accident and health, executive benefits, affinity business and warranty coverage.
One80 serves commercial companies, non-profits, public entities, associations, unions and private individual risks; and has offices in 55 locations throughout the US and Canada.