Territory Workers' Comp Underwriter for Growth

CopperPoint Insurance Companies; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

CopperPoint Insurance Companies seeks a Workers' Compensation Production Underwriter to manage an assigned agency territory and drive profitable growth, renewal retention, and strong customer service. The role focuses on risk selection, pricing, and agency relationship management within delegated authority, while partnering with underwriting leadership and agency partners to execute territory strategies.

This individual contributor position requires collaborating with internal teams to achieve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent relevant work experience may be considered.
• 3–5 years of commercial property and casualty underwriting experience preferred, with workers compensation underwriting experience strongly preferred.
• Experience managing agency relationships, producer pipelines, territory plans, or assigned books of business preferred.
• Professional designation such as CPCU, ARM, AU, CIC, or equivalent coursework preferred but not required.
• Strong technical knowledge of workers' compensation underwriting, including exposure analysis, loss history review, experience modification analysis, pricing, risk selection, and account profitability.

Responsibilities

• Owns an assigned agency territory and book of business, with accountability for profitable new business production, renewal retention, risk selection, pricing discipline, and agency engagement outcomes.
• Evaluates workers compensation submissions by analyzing class codes, exposures, payroll, loss runs, experience modification factors, hazard controls, financial considerations, and overall risk characteristics.
• Makes underwriting decisions within assigned authority and escalates risks that exceed authority levels or require leadership review.
• Prices new and renewal business in accordance with company underwriting and pricing guidelines while balancing growth, profitability, retention, and producer relationships.
• Develops and manages agency partnership plans, including production goals, pipeline management, target account strategies, agency performance, and profitability improvement opportunities.
• Conducts regular agency visits and producer meetings to communicate appetite, underwriting strategy, service expectations, pipeline status, and mutual business commitments.
• Identifies and pursues opportunities to expand profitable workers compensation production through assigned distribution channels.
• Presents new and renewal proposals to agency personnel, clearly explaining underwriting decisions, pricing rationale, coverage terms, and account strategies.
• Maintains current knowledge of the assigned territory, including production sources, competitor activity, economic trends, regulatory considerations, and geographic risk characteristics.
• Partners with underwriting leadership, claims, loss control, audit, and operations to support account performance, service standards, and overall portfolio quality.
• Provides a high level of service to internal and external stakeholders while maintaining accurate documentation and adherence to company policies, procedures, and authority standards.

Skills

Underwriting experience

Agency relationship management

Analytical skills

Stakeholder communication

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance/insurance

Job description

CopperPoint Insurance Companies seeks a Workers' Compensation Production Underwriter to manage an assigned agency territory and drive profitable growth, renewal retention, and strong customer service. The role focuses on risk selection, pricing, and agency relationship management within delegated authority, while partnering with underwriting leadership and agency partners to execute territory strategies.

This individual contributor position requires collaborating with internal teams to achieve