Underwriter

Gray & Company, Inc.; Metairie (LA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

GRAY- seeks a detail-oriented professional to provide production underwriters with essential information for underwriting decisions in Metairie, LA. You will support underwriters through established standards aligned with marketing, retention, and service goals while maintaining strong agent and insured relationships.

The role emphasizes business and customer due diligence, research of best practices for new programs, and contributing to team production and loss ratio targets.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication with management, employees, and outsiders.
• Excellent computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide information to production underwriters to support sound underwriting decisions.
• Support production underwriters through established standards and priorities aligned with marketing, underwriting, retention, and service goals.
• Assure all related support activities are delivered in a manner consistent with business unit customer service focus.
• Conduct business and customer due diligence.
• Achieve team production and loss ratio goals.
• Foster and maintain effective relationships with agents and insureds.
• Research best practices for new programs, forms, and manuals.
• Other duties as assigned/ required.

Skills

Communication

Microsoft Office

Independent work

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

• Provides production underwriters with information necessary to make sound underwriting decisions
• Supports production underwriters through established standards and priorities that are responsive to marketing, underwriting, retention, and service goals
• Assures all related support activities are delivered in a manner consistent with business unit customer service focus
• Conducts business and customer due diligence
• Achieves team production and loss ratio goals
• Fosters and maintains effective relationships with agents and insureds
• Researches best practices for new programs, forms, and manuals
• Other duties as assigned/ required.

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills with management, employees, and outsiders.
• Excellent computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

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