Product Manager / Senior Product Manager - Personal Lines (Open to Remote)

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Markel Personal Lines, a division of Markel focused on providing unique personal lines insurance, is searching for an Product Manager / Senior Product Manager. The Product Manager will have accountability for a portfolio of personal lines products. The Product Manager reports up to the Personal Lines Product Line Leader and has accountability for a portfolio of personal lines products.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage P&L for the personal lines products by monitoring financials, identifying trends, developing pricing indications and taking appropriate actions
• Periodically communicate business results throughout the Markel organization
• Ensure products are positioned appropriately in the market from both a product and pricing perspective, providing compliance/state filings with documentation when needed to support filings
• Continuously monitor profitability, mix of business, quality of business, concentration of risk, market feedback and proactively manage the portfolio
• Lead the product analysts which support the personal lines products
• Partner with underwriters to ensure all parties are working towards common goals and provide direction to make sure guidelines and authority are in line with current product/pricing structure and performance
• Work across internal departments and external partners to ensure product changes are implemented appropriately
• Work with legal, compliance and claims on legislative and regulatory topics
• Take lead role in new product development and/or expansion
• Act as product line expert, maintain a thorough knowledge of product features and benefits, and provide product expertise to various internal and external audiences.
• Maintain extensive knowledge of competitors within the marketplace and react appropriately to changes using all available data sources to include industry data, broker contacts and publicly available competitor information.
• Partner with external relationships where appropriate for your products

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree required – preferably in related field of study such as risk management, actuarial science, math/applied math, statistics/applied statistics, economics, finance
• 5+ years of experience in a pricing, underwriting or product management role for a property and casualty insurer
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
• Proven ability to understand what levers are available and drive appropriate actions to meet targeted results
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build relationships and interact effectively across functional groups, management levels and external partnerships
• Excellent written and oral communications
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to grasp concepts quickly and complete projects with minimal direction
• Ability to track performance, communicate project status and ensure controls are in place for product standardization and administrative consistency
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office: Advanced – Excel, Intermediate – Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Work towards obtaining industry designation (CPCU, CIC, RPLU, ASLI, etc.) or related pricing or product management curriculum preferred.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work. 

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life. 
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance. 
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and float