Production Underwriter-Environmental Division

Great American Insurance Group is a leader in the insurance industry, seeking a Production Underwriter for its Environmental Division. The role involves risk selection, pricing, and maintaining customer relationships while ensuring profitability and compliance with company guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Has responsibility for risk selection/rejection, pricing, retention, growth, and profitability per divisional objectives for renewal and new business opportunities
• Uses independent judgment and initiative to support business goals
• Maintains a high level of customer service
• Analyzes coverage and limit requests and decides what terms to offer
• Prices business in accordance with company guidelines
• Assesses risk quality and compliance within company guidelines and initiates appropriate loss prevention actions
• Reviews submission documents including Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and other environmental reports, consults online resources and liaises with in-house risk control and other colleagues to support underwriting decisions
• Works with legal department to manuscript policy language
• Negotiates with brokers on pricing and coverage
• Develops and maintains effective business relationships with internal and external customers/coworkers in order to attract and retain profitable business
• Visits agents, brokers, and producers nationwide in order to retain existing accounts, build and maintain business relationships, and develop new relationships in support of divisional objectives
• Interprets, explains, and markets products and services
• Develops creative solutions for new opportunities
• Attends and participates in Division events, broker appreciation events, industry conferences
• Applies underwriting rules and guidelines, rating manual rules, and insurance laws and regulations
• Actively participates in daily collaboration meetings, shares knowledge and experience with others and provides guidance and assistance to lower level associates
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Environmental, Business or other related discipline
• Generally, 1-3 years of related environmental underwriting experience
• Open to candidates with an environmental consulting or other environmentally-focused backgrounds
• Willingness to travel nationally for work-related events and marketing (15-20%)
• The ideal candidate is a self-motivated team player, able to multi-task in a fast paced environment and remain detail-oriented
• Preference for candidates located near our offices in Boston, New York, Exton and Cincinnati (this is a hybrid role)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Wellness plans
• Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• A 401(k) plan with company match
• An employee stock purchase plan
• Commuter benefits

Company Overview

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