Large Account Underwriting Specialist

Description

Leverage your industry expertise and join our expanding team in this Large Account Underwriting Specialist role. We are seeking candidates who reside in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, Florida, Mississippi, or Georgia area. The Large Account Underwriting Specialist is responsible for developing, growing, and managing a profitable, diversified book of complex construction business. This role targets large contractor accounts and combines advanced risk analysis, significant individual underwriting authority, and strategic broker and client relationship management to drive growth and profitability.

• Makes recommendations on underwriting policy, appetite, and pricing strategy based on portfolio and market insights.
• Develops and maintains strong agency/and or broker relationships with large producers through responsive service, office/site visits, and in person and virtual meetings; assists agents/brokers with pipeline management strategies.
• Prepares and documents file strategy, underwriting rationale, and final decisions while exercising assigned individual underwriting authority.
• Performs underwriting for large accounts by applying large account modeling and conducting comprehensive account reviews.
• Stays current on state/territory issues and regulations, industry activity and market trends; may participate in industry trade groups and external networking activities.
• Mentors and guides less experienced underwriters and assist in the development of underwriting training.
• Determines, coordinates, and directs account management activities with internal partners to deliver a cohesive account experience.
• Develops and maintains key client relationships, coordinating service team efforts and proactively anticipating issues, proposing creative, and practical solutions.
• Underwrites highly complex risks with an entrepreneur mindset, identifying opportunities to improve growth, profitability, rate, retention, diversification, and executing targeted marketing plans.

Requirements

At least 25% travel required

• Ability to apply underwriting/appetite, tools, systems, and resources to achieve goals, solve complex problems, establish, and build healthy working relationships, lead mentoring relationships, and negotiate, as normally acquired.
• Advanced level knowledge of insurance products/coverage, market segments and marketplace Insurance finance and actuarial concepts including loss trending and development.
• Ability to deal with ambiguous situations and issues.
• Bachelor’s degree with 5-7 years of commercial lines underwriting experience.
• Advanced-level knowledge of underwriting, pricing, risk selection, territory management

Benefits

The success of our company is rooted in teamwork, the way we care about the people we work with and serve. This remote role will allow you to do your best work from your home office, collaborating virtually with your team daily. You will travel to our Raleigh office for meetings and company events up to four times a year.

LIFE at Builders Mutual

• Market-driven compensation and bonus plan
• Flexibility| You will be part of a dynamic work environment designed to allow you to do your best work while also creating the best possible customer experience.
• 3 weeks of paid time off (and your birthday too!)
• 37.5-hour work week; end your Friday at 2:30 PM
• Earn swag and extra time off through peer recognition Builders Bucks program

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance