Senior Underwriting Director, E&S Property Wholesale

The Hartford; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking an Underwriting Director for the Navigators Wholesale Property team. The role focuses on underwriting, servicing and growing a profitable E&S Property book through wholesale brokers, with a broad remit across primary, excess and quota share programs.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of E&S property underwriting experience, strong broker relationships, and proven leadership. The role supports a hybrid schedule with office presence as needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of E&S property underwriting experience is required; experience working with wholesale insurance brokers preferred.
• Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining solid relationships with all internal and external business partners
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• An ability to think analytically about business problems, make recommendations and propose solutions.
• High energy self-starter, who is resilient and has an entrepreneurial spirit; solid time, organizational, and desk management skills
• Goal-oriented and delivers outcomes
• Ability to challenge the status quo and compete to win
• Superior technical knowledge and sound decision-making and analytical skills

Responsibilities

• Underwrites new and renewal business, may or may not have the highest levels of Underwriting Authority among underwriting staff
• Analyzes regional/assigned book of business on a quarter-by-quarter basis; builds appropriate action plan with manager
• Expertly applies all applicable underwriting guidelines when making account decisions
• Capable of underwriting complex business with limited involvement from manager or product/referral teams
• Coaches and supports junior underwriters on team
• Proposes individual account insurance program to reflect risk quality, identified exposures and controls, loss experience, and achievement of bottom line profit results for the company with occasional input from manager, product or referral teams
• Independently build territory sales plans to achieve financial operating plan
• Create, drive and execute strategies for new and/or renewal accounts with individual brokerages
• Serve as local lead in creation of sales plans and checkpoints with brokers where appropriate
• Establishes and maintains a pipeline of new business prospects
• Responsible for communicating individual account strategy to broker, educates others on strategy, and involves manager as appropriate
• Trusted advisor to broker – viewed as a solution provider due to technical knowledge, underwriting acumen and service
• Coaches junior staff on agency management
• Thorough knowledge of value proposition and capabilities of other segments of The Hartford to further a One Hartford approach to agency and account management
• Conducts cost/benefit analysis before proposing changes
• Product Knowledge and Policy Command Presents to junior underwriters on coverage and policy language Thorough knowledge of federal, state and local laws that impact our business
• Contributes to the creation of/maintenance of underwriting guidelines through collaboration with product team
• Strong working knowledge of profitability trends of the departmental and individual book of business, proactively seeks opportunities to improve and enhance results

Skills

Underwriting

Agency management

Strategic planning

Analytical thinking

Job description

The Hartford is seeking an Underwriting Director for the Navigators Wholesale Property team. The role focuses on underwriting, servicing and growing a profitable E&S Property book through wholesale brokers, with a broad remit across primary, excess and quota share programs.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of E&S property underwriting experience, strong broker relationships, and proven leadership. The role supports a hybrid schedule with office presence as needed.