Senior Underwriter, Commercial Insurance Specialty

Chubb Commercial Insurance is looking for a motivated, results oriented applicant to fill the position of Core Commercial Property and Casualty Senior Production Underwriter supporting the Kansas City Branch. The Kansas City Branch is part of the Mid-West region, which is the largest region within North America at Chubb. Commercial Insurance writes companies with revenues up to $1B, including both guaranteed cost and loss sensitive program structures. This position will be charged with growing and underwriting a book of business that consists primarily of Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution, Professional Services, Food, and Other/Business Services.  Additionally, this position will underwrite portfolio companies and transactions within the Private Equity segment.   The position will work closely with all Commercial Insurance resources both local and cored, Regional Leadership, Territory Underwriting Managers, Industry Practice/Line of Business leaders, and Home Office personnel. 

Role Responsibilities 
•    Establish and develop relationships with key distribution partners to drive submission activity in our desired industries.
•    Responsible for profit, growth, and retention of assigned book.
•    Meet or exceed new business production goal of $1.5m-$2m while maintaining profitability across assigned portfolio and adhering to authority and underwriting strategies. Includes knowledge and achievement of desired pre-bind metrics (Submissions, Quote Ratio, Hit Ratio, Efficiency Ratio) to facilitate profitable growth and achieve production goals.
•    Strong Focus on developing a prospect pipeline 5x new business production goal with assigned distribution partners using advanced company prospecting tools and strong marketplace visibility of 10+ external visits per month. 
•    In conjunction with Underwriter Associate, meet or exceed rate, exposure, and retention goals to achieve desired profitability on renewal book by retaining key assigned branch accounts.
•    Lead coordination of Risk Engineering, Claims and other value-added services. 
•    Build relationships with our largest current and prospective clients
•    Develop understanding of products and engage with other Chubb Business Units to aggressively cross-sell all Chubb Products and Solutions through agent/broker’s and existing client relationships. Includes but is not limited to, Multi-National, Environmental, Ocean Cargo, Financial Lines, Product-Recall, E&O, A&H, etc.
•    Develop and maintain internal relationships with local branch, cored regional personal, Territory Underwriting Manager, Line of business/Industry Practice Leaders and Home Office personal.

•    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
•    5+ years of commercial underwriting experience, preferably in the core middle market property and casualty segment. Strong understanding of Property, General Liability, Auto, Workers Compensation, Umbrella, and International Lines of Business.
•    Local Broker and Marketplace relationships.
•    Strong marketing and negotiation skills with focus on building and developing external relationships.
•    Demonstrates ability to affectively prepare for meetings to efficiently drive objectives.
•    Strong technical underwriting skillset in areas including exposure/control analysis, coverage forms and policy structure, loss picks and profitability analysis, and rating.
•    Ability to work efficiently in a strong, fast paced team environment.
•    General understanding of underlying insurance business, regulatory environment, and strong adherence to underwriting authority.
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
 

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.
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