Westfield Insurance ยท 5 hours ago
Small Business Senior Underwriter
Westfield Center, OH
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expWestfield Insurance is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions. The Commercial Lines Small Business Senior Underwriter manages and services a profitable renewal book of business, focusing on technical underwriting and maintaining strong agency relationships.
Insurance
Responsibilities
Manages the underwriting profitability growth and retention of new and renewal business that is consistent with underwriting strategies
Collects appropriate and accurate information required to assess potential clients and decides on the acceptable risk for a policy
Compares various policies having similar risk undertaking and conducts actuarial studies to decide on the company's loss records
Develops relationships with agencies, producers, and other distribution partners (producers) and works to understand their needs
Leverages portfolio underwriting of the book and territory leveraging analytics and information garnered through BI and other sources
Provides leadership with feedback on product, pricing and rate/rule activities of the competition and reviews high value inspections for assigned agencies
Strives to create and build effective communication externally (between agents and company) and internally (within the company) regarding underwriting procedures and practices, growth/profit goals and objectives, and agency relations
Negotiates with agents to reach positive and profitable outcomes and coordinates and owns agency business plans and key activities with oversight from Region Leader
Develops and maintains an operating knowledge of Westfield standardized hardware, software programs, third party software, and processing procedures
Influences current and prospective agencies, producers, and other distribution partners to represent and promote Westfield products and services to customers
Answers questions from agencies, producers, distribution partners policyholders or other external contacts and escalates issues to leadership as necessary
Collaborates with and leverages corporate shared services functions to bring the competitive strategy to life and achieve results; aligns with corporate governance while maintaining a singular focus on the customer
Qualification
Required
3-5 years of Commercial Underwriting experience
Bachelor's degree in related field and/or commensurate work experience
Insurance Industry Knowledge
Financial Controls
Commercial Lines Underwriting
Underwriting Strategy
Data Analysis and Reporting
Risk Management
Customer Service Management
Preferred
Collaborates
Customer focus
Communicates effectively
Decision quality
Nimble learning
Company
Westfield Insurance
Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Joe Kohmann
Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
Amy Larsh
Executive Assistant to the President, CEO & Board Chair
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