Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The Opportunity
Represent QBE as a thought leader in the environmental line of business and maintain strong knowledge of full product suite across NA to promote brand awareness. Lead profitable underwriting operations for the environmental line of business by developing and communicating a strategic vision for department growth, setting team priorities and guiding adherence to quality metrics to ensure department risk selection aligns with organizational profitability objectives.
• Location: California, New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid
• The salary range for this role is: $212,000 - $398,000

Your new role:

• Provide support to the continued enhancement of the capability of the broader Underwriting team through direct management and informal coaching/mentoring
• Develop and communicate a strategic vision for department growth by setting team priorities and guiding adherence to quality metrics to ensure department risk selection aligns with organizational profitability objectives
• Foster a collaborative approach to growing the business by communicating with peers, identifying profit and loss trends, developing strategic portfolio growth initiatives and informing team on changing underwriting guidelines to drive achievement of department profitability objectives
• Leverage advanced technical expertise to formulate innovative strategies for expanding QBE’s customer base in conjunction and collaboration with sales and marketing
• Develop and maintain underwriting guidelines and best practices, in accordance with federal and state regulations, to ensure integrity of assigned line(s) of business
• Manage the underwriting team for assigned line(s) of business by overseeing and evaluating new and renewal business to ensure risk quality and proper insurance to value
• Drive standardization of underwriting across assigned business line(s) by defining risk assessment parameters, setting quality service standards and developing and leading self-audit initiatives to foster consistent and profitable risk selection
• Capitalize on opportunities for continuous improvement by reviewing reports on loss ratios and conducting research on market trends and best practices to enhance portfolio and ensure organization is competitive in the marketplace
• Build, foster and maintain internal and external relationships by leading the delivery of training, utilizing individual credibility to inform on risk exposure decision-making processes and leading team to efficiently underwrite prospective business to meet service expectations and enhance organizational reputation
• Develop sustainable underwriting operations for business line(s) by analyzing, refining and enhancing current practices to ensure future planning aligns with long-range business growth objectives

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 10+ years relevant experience

Preferred Experience:

• Provide vision and think creatively and innovatively; implement strategies to improve efficiency
• Strong technology and systems aptitude of underwriting practices and procedures
• Build and capitalize on beneficial internal and external relationships
• Collaborate with senior leaders within the organization to accomplish a common goal
• Utilize effective research and investigative techniques
• Analyze risks, benefits and opportunities to ensure organizational competitiveness and satisfaction of established long-range objectives
• Foster and promote collaboration and teamwork
• Adjust plans, goals, actions or priorities to meet changing situations, guide others through change
• Prioritize interests of the company and community during decision-making
• Leverage business and financial expertise
• Establish a high degree of trust and credibility with others
• Show empathy and sensitivity to the experience of others; act fairly, ethically and with integrity when decision-making, managing or working with a team and corresponding with customers
• Inform team about organizational change and integrations through a variety of means
• Motivational, inspirational and enthusiastic approach to team leading and management
• Extensive underwriting experience is required
• Specific experience required will vary based on assigned line/s of business
• Experience managing or leading others
• Increasing levels of responsibility
• Participation in industry events that support continuous education and superior technical proficiency and underwriting competence

Preferred Knowledge:

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