What are the responsibilities and job description for the Underwriter position at Hylant?
The Opportunity:
The Underwriter is responsible for evaluating individual account risk in relation to coverage granted to price and set terms for accounts that will balance written premium, rate, and profitability goals. This position will support management and coworkers with projects through leadership, teamwork, training, and implementation.
In This Role You Will Execute On:
- Managing an assigned book of business underwriting risk and pricing for partner Agents.
- Reviewing commercial coverage forms, rating plans and guidelines.
- Ensuring adequate pricing through identification of exposures, proper classifications, accuracy of information while adhering to underwriting standards with little oversight.
- Completing quotes, policies and endorsements.
- Responding to questions on reviews and responses from agents as well as clients in a timely manner.
- Achieving premium, rate and profitability goals with in assigned book of business.
- Identifying cross sell opportunity with additional or complimentary coverage options.
- Provide backup support for other team members in times of absence.
- Coaching and counseling coworkers, clients and agency staff
- Travel may be required on a monthly basis
In This Role You Will Need:
- 3 - 5 years of insurance underwriting experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Excellent communication skills, including listening, speaking and writing
- Flexibility and creativity for developing innovative and customized business solutions
- Exceptional relationship development and interpersonal skills
- Ability to balance diverse and competing workloads
- Ability to work well with others in solution of mutual problems; respect the opinions, abilities, and contributions of others; cooperative and open minded in working with others.
- Computer literacy for Word, Excel, Outlook and Internet with the ability to create and edit spreadsheets, presentations and correspondence, perform data entry and access data.
Why Hylant?
A multi-year recipient of Best Places to Work in Insurance, Hylant is a full-service insurance brokerage with 21 offices in eight states. And since the founding of our family-owned business over 85 years ago, we made a promise to strengthen and protect the businesses, employees and communities of our client family by embracing them as our own. We’re more than an insurance brokerage firm and you’re more than a client, employee or neighbor. You’re family. And that’s just the way we treat you.
Hylant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, Veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Hylant participates in E-Verify.
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