Advance your career at Liberty Mutual - A Fortune 100 Company! Commercial Lines Underwriting Support is a vital operation to the Regional Company Group division of Agency Markets. Through this division, we provide support to facilitate a high volume of underwriting decisions across our commercial book of business. This is a team-based organization placing a very high emphasis on the quality of our internal and external relationships and our mutual successes. Put your high energy, collaborative work style and relationship building skills to work as an Underwriting Support Supervisor and realize the possibilities with Liberty Mutual.
Responsibilities:
Manage a team of 12 to 15 associate underwriters in delivering timely, high quality and profitable products and services to customers. Hires and develops staff to meet changing business needs.
Delegates authority to associate underwriters in accordance with AM AU authority guidelines. Assigns underwriting territories in accordance with the individual';s experience and the complexity and sophistication of the book of business Assures team works within delegated authority levels and company guidelines while modifying new and renewal business, to ensure a profitable book of business.
Identifies and participates in initiatives to improve team or regional performance.
Develops on-going relationships with agents and keeps agents and team members up-to-date with underwriting and/or product changes.
Monitors the book of business assigned to the team to maximize profitability and growth and to ensure that pricing guidelines and standards for timeliness are being met. Reviews loss activity (frequency and severity) for agents, and for each underwriter in team';s territory. Considers mix of business, loss ratios by line of business, fit of business with company guidelines. Through the use of company programs, identifies problems, follows up with agents and underwriters.
Prepares and manages the annual team budget to ensure that financial targets and expense goals are met.
Defends bad faith claims by testifying in court on procedural and regulatory processing of policies. Prepares correspondence in response to Department of Insurance complaints.
Trains, coaches and serves as technical resource to other underwriters and associate underwriters. Develops programs to train new associate underwriters and manages new associate underwriter development regarding expertise on our products, processes, underwriting policies and standards, etc. Assists associate underwriters in the handling of high hazard or more complex accounts.
Performs other duties as assigned.
SKILLS REQUIRED Qualifications:
Bachelor';s degree or equivalent plus 5+ years of progressively more responsible related work experience is required
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills in order to work with diverse groups of internal and external contacts
Proven organizational and problem solving skills and the ability to balance multiple tasks simultaneously
Project management skills
In-depth knowledge of complex rating plans and detailed knowledge of underwriting, rating and production support operations
CPCU/AU/AIPU designation a plus
Relocation assistance is being offered for this position Benefits: We recognize that talented people are attracted to companies that provide competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages and outstanding advancement opportunities. For this reason we offer a Comprehensive Benefits Plan that includes the following:
401K and Company paid pension plan
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Paid time-off
Pay-for-Performance
Discounts on automobile and homeowner';s insurance
Discount fitness memberships
Flexible spending accounts
Tuition reimbursement
Vision care coverage
Work/Life resources
Credit Union membership
Employee and Dependent life insurance
Disability insurance
Long-term care insurance
Overview: We believe strongly that commercial success can be achieved in a manner consistent with principles and ideals that bind us together as one company, that set us apart from our competitors, and that in the end will allow us to say we have succeeded commercially by doing the right thing the right way. We believe that the Company';s success is inextricably linked to our employees'; satisfaction and success: satisfaction that they work for an industry leader committed to improving safety, satisfaction that they work for a company that does the right thing, and satisfaction that the company will reward them for their contributions and provide opportunities for personal growth and success. We believe our employees take pride in knowing that they help people live safer more secure lives everyday. Responsibility. What';s your policy?
Boston-based Liberty
Mutual Group is a diversified global insurer and fifth largest
property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2008 direct
written premium. The Company also ranks 86th on the Fortune
500 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2008 revenue.
As of December 31, 2008, Liberty Mutual Group had $104.3 billion
in consolidated assets, $94.2 billion in consolidated liabilities
and $28.9 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
Liberty Mutual Group offers a wide range of insurance products
and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, workers
compensation, commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile,
general liability, global specialty, group disability, assumed
reinsurance, fire and surety.
Liberty Mutual Group (www.libertymutualgroup.com)
employs over 45,000 people in more than 900 offices throughout
the world.
