Senior Personal Lines Underwriter — Grow Your Book (Hybrid)

Burns & Wilcox; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid continuing education

Health and welfare benefits

401K with employer match

Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays

Kaufman Wellness Program

Flexible and hybrid work options

Salary plus bonus potential

Job summary

Burns & Wilcox, a leading wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager, seeks a Personal Lines Underwriter in Charlotte. Grow a book, manage agency relationships, and lead development of Associates while underwriting complex risk for renewals and new business.

The role emphasizes sales, marketing, and strong client contact with opportunities for career advancement within a private, growth-focused company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of commercial lines underwriting experience required, excess & surplus experience preferred.
• Insurance license, CPCU, CIC or comparable designations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and grow a book of business.
• Manage agency relationships and serve as lead client contact.
• Create and execute marketing plan to increase new and renewal business.
• Rate, quote and bind each risk to determine acceptability, coverage, and pricing for large or complex renewals as well as new business.
• Develop and submit underwriting referrals to company brokerage facilities and Burns & Wilcox management.
• Monitor key metrics to formulate corrective action impacting new business hit, renewal retention, premium growth, and loss ratio.
• Lead, train, and develop Associate Underwriters.

Skills

Sales & marketing

Underwriting

Client relationship management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Job description

Burns & Wilcox, a leading wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager, seeks a Personal Lines Underwriter in Charlotte. Grow a book, manage agency relationships, and lead development of Associates while underwriting complex risk for renewals and new business.

The role emphasizes sales, marketing, and strong client contact with opportunities for career advancement within a private, growth-focused company.