Senior or Entry Level Field Underwriter

Sompo International; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two medical plans

Dental benefits

FSAs (Health & Dependent Care)

Company-paid Life & AD&D

Disability benefits

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Tax-Free Commuter Benefit

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Sompo International's AgriSompo North America is seeking an experienced Crop Insurance Underwriter to join the Southeast team. The role supports reviewing contracts, processing production and acreage data, and ensuring timely service for agents and insureds.

This full-time, remote position can be based in Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, or North Carolina, with opportunities to grow in underwriting knowledge, attend trainings, and contribute to a pay-for-performance compensation

Qualifications

• Must have high school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience in crop insurance.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Review, analyze and inspect insurance contracts, application, production, and acreage report processing, research, written agreement processing, scanning, policy reviews, and always provide exceptional customer service.
• Provide exceptional customer service.
• Assess insurance documents such as applications, production reports, acreage reports, and apply underwriting rules.
• Meet agent deadlines established by Risk Management Agency (RMA) policy and procedure.
• Data entry including policy information, production data, acreage report data, etc. against edits and corrects errors.
• Attend training classes to further education and knowledge within the crop insurance industry.
• Confirm and/or verify policy forms in accordance with RMA guidelines and approve acceptance.
• Work Policy Acceptance and Storage System (PASS) Errors.
• Excellent customer service skills with ability to keep customers as the top priority.
• Conduct policy and procedure research.
• Conduct policy Reviews including but not limited to, applications, production, acreage, and quality assurance.
• Ability to learn and understand what information is needed to process insurance policies, FCIC rules and regulations, policy provision, etc.
• Ability to understand printed policy information, such as manuals, handbooks, and actuarial documents and to apply information to work tasks.
• Basic keyboarding skills, ten-key skills, and the ability to enter information rapidly and accurately into the computer.
• Ability to comprehend agents’ questions and concerns over the telephone and to provide correct, courteous answers.
• Ability to effectively communicate and maintain business relationships with company personnel, outside resources and customers.
• Ability to learn and develop skills in the use of department equipment.
• Performance (Research, Availability, Timeliness, Attitude)

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Underwriting principles

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

As one of the leading writers of Federal Crop Insurance, AgriSompo North America combines industry experience, resources, capital and talent to deliver both traditional and innovative crop insurance and productivity tools to farmers, ranchers, insurers and agribusinesses in the United States. AgriSompo North America is a part of AgriSompo, Sompo International’s global agriculture platform. This platform is an integrated underwriting, technology and distribution platform delivering innovate insurance and reinsurance solutions to agriculture partners worldwide. Sompo International, AgriSompo’s parent company, is a global organization driven by its core values, a carrier that holds promise, trust and the commitment to protect. Through operating subsidiaries, Sompo International writes agriculture, casualty and other specialty, professional lines, property, marine/energy and aviation lines of insurance and catastrophe, property, casualty, professional lines and specialty lines of reinsurance.As a leading provider of crop insurance and other agricultural risk management tools, we recognize that our success is derived directly from those whose contributions matter most: our people.

AgriSompo has a unique opportunity for an experienced Crop Insurance Underwriter on our Southeast team.

This position can be based fully remote in Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, or North Carolina.

• Review, analyze and inspect insurance contracts, application, production, and acreage report processing, research, written agreement processing, scanning, policy reviews, and always provide exceptional customer service.
• Provide exceptional customer service.
• Assess insurance documents such as applications, production reports, acreage reports, and apply underwriting rules.
• Meet agent deadlines established by Risk Management Agency (RMA) policy and procedureData entry including policy information, production data, acreage report data, etc. against edits and corrects errors.
• Attend training classes to further education and knowledge within the crop insurance industry.
• Confirm and/or verify policy forms in accordance with RMA guidelines and approve acceptance.
• Work Policy Acceptance and Storage System (PASS) Errors.
• Excellent customer service skills with ability to keep customers as the top priority.
• Conduct policy and procedure research.
• Conduct policy Reviews including but not limited to, applications, production, acreage, and quality assurance.
• Ability to learn and understand what information is needed to process insurance policies, FCIC rules and regulations, policy provision, etc.
• Ability to understand printed policy information, such as manuals, handbooks, and actuarial documents and to apply information to work tasks.
• Basic keyboarding skills, ten-key skills, and the ability to enter information rapidly and accurately into the computer.
• Ability to comprehend agents’ questions and concerns over the telephone and to provide correct, courteous answers.
• Ability to effectively communicate and maintain business relationships with company personnel, outside resources and customers.
• Ability to learn and develop skills in the use of department equipment.
• Performance (Research, Availability, Timeliness, Attitude)

Education and Work Experience:

• Required - High school diploma or equivalent, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Required – Experience in crop insurance.

The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; viewing a computer terminal; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.

Environmental Conditions: a normal office environment. Travel required for meetings and trainings.

This is why we offer competitive, high-quality compensation and benefit programs to eligible employees.

Our compensation program is built on a foundation that promotes a pay-for-performance culture, resulting in higher incentive awards, on average, when the Company does well and lower incentive awards when the Company underperforms. The total compensation opportunity for all regular, full-time employees is a combination of base salary and incentives that gets adjusted upfront based on overall Company performance with final awards based on individual performance.

Benefits:

• Two medical plans to choose from, including a Traditional PPO & a Consumer Driven Health Plan with a Health Savings account providing a competitive employer contribution
• Dental benefits including orthodontia benefits for adults and children
• Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Company-paid Life & AD&D benefits, including the option to purchase Supplemental life coverage for employee, spouse & children
• Company-paid Disability benefits with very competitive salary continuation payments
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with competitive employer contributions
• Competitive paid-time-off programs, including company-paid holidays
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tax-Free Commuter Benefit
• Tuition Reimbursement & Professional Qualification benefits

At Sompo, our shared purpose is to create meaningful value for clients, communities, and each other. We strive to foster a workplace where everyone feels respected, included, and empowered to excel. As a global organization, we embrace diversity and champion equal opportunity. Guided by our core values—Accountability, Agility, Collaboration, Development, and Integrity—we build trust and support one another to achieve our goals worldwide.