Senior E&S Underwriter
Excess & Surplus - Production Underwriter
Location: San Diego, CA
Description
Make a difference with a career in insurance.
To put this into action, we're looking for extraordinary people to join our talented team. Our service-oriented, ethical, knowledgeable, and caring associates are the heart of our vision to be the best company serving independent agents. We help protect families and businesses as they work to prevent or recover from a loss. Share your talents to help us reach continued success as we bring value to the communities we serve.
If you're ready to build productive relationships, collaborate within a diverse team, embrace challenges, and develop your skills, then our client may be the place for you. We offer career opportunities where you can contribute and grow.
Our client's specialty underwriting division has an immediate opening for an experienced excess and surplus lines underwriter in San Diego, CA. The candidate is required to reside within this territory.
Be Ready To:
- Work in partnership with producers and an assigned underwriting assistant to solicit, underwrite, and price new and renewal surplus lines commercial property and casualty business
- Determine individual risk acceptability, pricing, coverage, terms, and conditions
- Develop, analyze, and evaluate information and exposures for complex risks
- Achieve production and loss ratio goals within assigned regional territory
- Work independently with a high level of authority and judgment
- Determine need for and secure appropriate reinsurance on individual accounts
- Mentor and train underwriters and underwriting assistants
- Develop successful business relationships with producers and reinsurers
- Research new products and coverage forms
- Travel within assigned territory, which may include some overnight stays
Be Equipped With:
- Property and casualty underwriting experience
- Proficient use of Microsoft® Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Organizational and time management skills
- Strong decision-making, analytical, and negotiating abilities
- Desire to build relationships and listen effectively
- Ability to develop positive working relationships with team members and agents by finding solutions beneficial to all
- Skilled verbal communication to explain, negotiate, and present information, and understanding when to use verbal or written communication
- A valid driver's license (final candidates will be subject to a Motor Vehicle Record background check, as the position may include a company vehicle)
Bring Education or Experience From:
- Bachelor's degree or extensive relevant excess and surplus lines underwriting experience
- 5+ years of experience working with commercial lines property and casualty products
- Prior excess and surplus casualty underwriting experience with a carrier, broker, or MGA preferred
- ASLI or CPCU designations preferred
- Candidates with a carrier background will be given preference; complete training is provided at headquarters prior to deployment to regional territory
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