Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Ability to accept, reject or modify new and renewal business for workers’ compensation insurance programs as needed while working with senior underwriters or management, to ensure a profitable book of business.
- Price business according to company underwriting and pricing guidelines and ensures standards for timeliness are met.
- Develop on-going relationships with internal and external customers and monitor profitability and quality of submissions, and keeps up-to-date with underwriting and/or product changes.
- Review and become familiar with: policy coverages, agency relationships, underwriting and team guidelines, processes, and procedures, company business strategy and organization.
- Work with the division partner risk management staff to enhance knowledge and experience in: underwriting techniques and decision making methods, problem solving methods, sales and negotiating skills.
Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Computer skills required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Ability to read and interpret documents.
- Ability to type routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively and respectfully with all contacts.
- Ability to perform basic math and compute rate, ratio, and percentages.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions in all forms.
- Ability to deal with problems involving fixed variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to work under direction.
• Strong work ethic required.
• High level English
Education & Experience
- High School diploma acceptable, some college preferred.
- 3-5+ years' experience in Underwriting.
Physical Read Only
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
- Frequently required to sit; occasionally required to stand and walk.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
· Frequently required to talk and hear.
- Moderate concentration/intensity, which includes prolonged mental effort.
- Average memory, taking into consideration the amount and type of information.
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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