E&S Excess Casualty Underwriter (Senior or AVP)
Zurich is currently looking to hire an experienced Senior or AVP E&S Excess Casualty Underwriter to join our growing Casualty team! You will have the flexibility to work on a hybrid basis and partner with your manager to set a flexible work schedule that supports you, our customers, and our brokers and agents. This role will require you to be visible in the marketplace to meet with our agents and brokers. In this role you will be working with national wholesalers to drive growth with a focus on profitability. We are open to talent residing in one of our three targeted hiring regions: Central, Eastern or Western zones.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain relationships with broker partners and customers across all industries in support of business objectives.
- Leverage your casualty underwriting acumen across risk assessment, exposure evaluation and pricing to generate and maintain a profitable book of new and renewal business.
- Work collaboratively across business units including claims, finance, risk engineering, actuary, and technical underwriting.
- Use your market facing, negotiation and interpersonal skills to grow and develop relationships with preferred distribution partners in an assigned territory.
Our Senior E&S Excess Casualty Underwriter is responsible for:
- Serving as a customer industry advocate with a focus on improving the customer experience.
- Using a disciplined approach to exposure evaluation, risk assessment and pricing.
- Using risk insights, data and models to drive informed decisions.
- Market facing and production within the growing Zurich E&S Casualty division.
- Administering and monitoring underwriting rules and guidelines, insurance laws and regulations.
- Coaching, developing and empowering junior team members.
Basic Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent and 5 or more years of experience in the Underwriting or Market Facing area.
- High School Diploma or Equivalent and 10 or more years of experience in Claims or Underwriting Support area.
- Zurich Certified Insurance Apprentice including an Associate Degree and 3 or more years of experience in the Underwriting or Market Facing area.
- Zurich Certified Insurance Apprentice including an Associate Degree and 8 or more years of experience in Claims or Underwriting Support area.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of E&S Commercial insurance industry experience.
- Technical knowledge of Excess Casualty Underwriting with E&S.
- Established wholesale broker relationships.
- Creative problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Compensation for roles at Zurich varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The combined salary range for this position is $115,000.00 - $205,000.00.
As a global company, Zurich recognizes the diversity of our workforce as an asset. We recruit talented people from a variety of backgrounds with unique perspectives that are truly welcome here. Zurich does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.
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