Senior Underwriting Officer – Environmental Casualty Product Line Manager

Liberty Mutual Insurance; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Mutual Insurance in New York seeks an Environmental Casualty Production Underwriter Manager to guide complex referrals, set underwriting direction, and mentor underwriters across regions. You will oversee profitability metrics, develop guidelines, and collaborate with engineering, claims, actuarial, and finance to drive growth while maintaining high standards of service.

In this role you will travel occasionally to meet clients and brokers, strengthen partnerships, and participate in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; 7+ years environmental casualty underwriting experience with increasing responsibility.
• Minimum 3 years of people management experience.
• Advanced knowledge of environmental casualty underwriting concepts, practices, and techniques.
• Experience with workers' compensation for environmental contractors.
• Strong verbal and written communication and organization skills.
• Excellent negotiation, analytical, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to interact effectively with brokers, clients, and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex referrals and support timely underwriting decisions.
• Monitor premium, rate, retention, profitability, loss trends, and exposure.
• Develop and maintain underwriting guidelines, forms, and product enhancements.
• Support EPIC, excess casualty, auto, and environmental contractors’ workers’ compensation strategy.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to underwriters.
• Occasional travel and marketing responsibilities, including client and broker visits.
• Strengthen broker and distribution relationships and support renewal and new-business execution.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Decision making

Team leadership

Collaboration

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent training

Job description

Description

As a member of North America Specialty (NAS) Environmental’s Management team, you will meaningfully contribute to the growth and profitability of our Environmental Casualty products through consistent engagement with Underwriters, Underwriting Managers, other Product Line Managers and other key business stakeholders (Engineering, Claims, Legal, Actuary, Finance). The role requires extensive technical knowledge of underwriting concepts, practices, procedures and techniques, as well as strong insights into the environmental casualty marketplace, including experience working with or at key environmental carriers or brokers.

• Manage complex referrals and support timely, consistent underwriting decisions.
• Monitor premium, rate, retention, profitability, loss trends, capacity, and aggregation exposure.
• Develop and maintain underwriting guidelines, forms, and product enhancements.
• Support EPIC, excess casualty, auto, and environmental contractors’ workers’ compensation strategy.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to underwriters.
• Occasional travel and marketing responsibilities, including client and broker visits to support your assigned production teams and regions.
• Strengthen broker and distribution relationships and support renewal and new-business execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent training plus at least 7 years of relevant environmental casualty production underwriting experience with progressively increasing levels of responsibility.
• Requires at least 3 years of previous people management experience.
• Requires an advanced knowledge of environmental casualty underwriting concepts, practices, procedures and techniques, including, but not limited to coverage issues, product lines, marketing, product competition within the marketplace.
• Knowledge/Underwriting experience for workers compensation for environmental contractors.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interact with brokers, clients, colleagues, and other internal departments.
• Places a high value on collaboration and possesses strong verbal and written communication and organization (multi-tasking) skills.
• Strong negotiation, analytical and decision-making skills.

About Us

At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive. We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embedded in every aspect of our culture and reflected in everyday interactions. This comes to life through comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and a host of opportunities provided through our Employee Resource Groups. Each employee plays a role in creating our inclusive culture, which supports every individual to do their best work. Together, we cultivate a community where everyone can make a meaningful impact for our business, our customers, and the communities we serve.

We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://www.libertymutualgroup.com/about-lm/careers/benefits

Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

Fair Chance Notices

• California
• Los Angeles Incorporated
• Los Angeles Unincorporated
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco