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The Hartford · 4 hours ago

Underwriter II - Employee Benefits Priority Account

The Hartford is an insurance company committed to making a difference and helping people protect what matters most. They are seeking an Underwriter II to join their Priority Accounts Team, responsible for managing new business, renewals, and ensuring profitability while collaborating with sales and developing underwriting skills.

Auto InsuranceCommercial InsuranceEmployee BenefitsFinanceFinancial ServicesInsuranceLife InsuranceProperty Insurance

Responsibilities

New Business, Renewals, and Inforce business opportunities which will help to build and sharpen technology (PRISM, rating system) skills
Working with Sales to negotiate rates and ensure profitability on Renewals
Ownership of assigned Sales office and to be a part of the overall block and pricing strategies
In this role you will have an opportunity to learn the intricacies of rating and building plan designs, work with pricing tools, and serve as strategic reserve for other underwriters to allow for growth and upmarket moves
Develop emerging underwriting skills and consistent technical proficiency of underwriting guidelines and underlying risk management philosophy
Effectively and independently handle renewal ratings by building the formula and needed picks using Short Term Disability (STD) Incurral
Establish solid relationships with all internal and external business partners, negotiating prices and benefit options with the sales team and brokers
Actively drive and participate in an assigned amount of project work and special assignments
Ensure data integrity reports are promptly completed
Demonstrate understanding of the elements of pricing including risk factors, manual rates, risk classification, pricing targets and reinsurance
Working on STD Incurral, Administrative Service Offerings (ASO) STD, Leave Management, AMT Tool and SAADD tools. (Pricing tools)

Qualification

Employee Benefits UnderwritingRisk ManagementPricing ToolsMS Office KnowledgeAnalytical SkillsResearch SkillsInterpersonal SkillsPresentation Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree preferred. Desired majors including Risk Management & Insurance, Business, Economics, Finance, Accounting and Math
Strong interpersonal and business communication skills
Minimum of 1+ years of Employee Benefits Underwriting, or related experience is preferred
Solid MS Office Knowledge (Microsoft Excel formulas, sorting, v-look-ups, pivot tables)
Strong communication, presentation, interpersonal, analytical and research skills

Benefits

Short-term or annual bonuses
Long-term incentives
On-the-spot recognition

Company

The Hartford

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The Hartford is an industry leading provider of property and casualty insurance, group benefits and mutual funds.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
unknown
1995-12-15IPO

Leadership Team

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Christopher Swift
Chief Executive Officer
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