Senior Underwriter - Professional Liability Insurance Job

Los Angeles, CA

 

Insurance Job Description

Our client writes specialty insurance products that are designed to meet the specific needs of targeted niche insurance markets. They currently offer an opportunity to join their organization in a Senior Underwriter position. In this position you will be accountable for achieving planned results for a specific geographic territory to attain business objectives and goals.  

Senior Underwriter - Professional Liability Responsibilities:

  • Drive the continued development, profitability and growth of this product.

  • Manage pricing objectives, profit improvement, profit improvement opportunities and combined loss ratio results. Direct the underwriting risk section and underwriting process.

  • Collaborate with the company's Underwriting, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Systems, Claims and Legal functions.

  • Manage all aspects of the brokerage relationship including visitation to present our client's products and underwriting appetite, develop relationships, production and profitability.

  • Participate in forming recommendations for the strategic direction of the Professional Liability lines of business. 

Senior Underwriter - Professional Liability Requirements:

  • 10 plus years' experience in Excess and Surplus Lines underwriting with extensive experience in the underwriting and marketing of Professional Liability product lines through a wholesale broker distribution system.

  • Demonstrated ability to underwrite, price and negotiate large account business in accordance with established guidelines, procedures and strategies.

  • Developed technical knowledge of underwriting, product design, rating and pricing supporting a proven record of profitable underwriting in Professional Liability risks.

  • Expertise in structuring and managing facultative reinsurance.

  • Ability to analyze individual risks for profit opportunity and provide underwriting solutions, through creativity and vision to design coverage that can appropriately respond to a specific line of business, class or customer need.

  • Possess an in-depth working intelligence of current business issues within the wholesale broker and excess and surplus lines community.

  • Demonstrated innovator not satisfied with the status quo, who actively seeks new or better methods of competence.

  • "Hands-on" ability to direct, manage and influence the underwriting process to support coverage design required as outlined by the strategies and underwriting philosophy.

  • Proven analytical and quantitative skills, with strong organizational, interpersonal, communication and time management quality.

  • High energy, with a desire to be a team player capable of interacting with a variety of individuals internally and externally.

  • Proven ability at negotiating and reviewing contracts and policy terms.

Please contact Scot Dickerson for immediate confidential consideration and additional details. If you would like to submit your resume for this insurance job, please click HERE and attach your resume as a Microsoft Word document.

Capstone Insurance Search Group is a search firm dedicated to the insurance industry. We work nationally with expertise that spans top executives, middle management and technical level positions. We can provide assistance with a variety of product lines to include Property and Casualty, Life, Health, Disability, Annuity and Pension. We will provide you with a service that is of the highest degree of confidentiality, professionalism and integrity.