AVP, Property Underwriting

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Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Under the guidance of South East Region Property management and within the company guidelines, develop a profitable book of property insurance business for US domiciled upper middle market and middle market accounts within the region

• Create business plans in collaboration with our Distribution division to achieve targeted production with identified key wholesale brokers. Identify occupancy classes to be targeted with these producers

• Develop and maintain relationships with approved wholesale brokers, including but not limited to travels within the region, prepare and deliver presentations, training on our new products

• Underwrite, maintain, and grow a profitable book of business in the non-admitted property market with wholesale brokers. This includes evaluate and prioritize submissions; analyze exposure, coverage requests; determine acceptable deployment of gross and net capacity, determine pricing and negotiate the final property insurance product on an account basis

• Monitor portfolio metrics

• Identify business opportunities to differentiate the company

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Well-developed active listening, problem solving and interpersonal skills for developing and strengthening broker relationships

• Strong communications skills, business writing and oral presentation skills

• Well-developed business acumen to understand performance metrics, develop and implement profitable growth strategy within dedicated territory

• Shared and layered property account experience as well as experience negotiating Manuscript forms

• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently

• Sound technology capabilities in Microsoft products such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint and ability to use and manipulate data

• Knowledge of CAT Modeling parameters (PML, AAL, data quality) to assess an account and a portfolio exposure and calculate a CAT rate

• Understand the key elements of risk selection and risk assessment, can develop loss estimates, develop and negotiate a risk mitigation plan based on survey reports and place fac reinsurance when necessary

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (ideally with a degree/major in Economics, Business, Risk-management or Engineering)

• Additional industry-specific study or designations (such as CPCU & ARM) are a plus

• 7 years of property experience handling upper middle market and middle market property accounts. This should include at least 5 years at a non-admitted carrier as an underwriter

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