Underwriter

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

Responsibilities:

• Underwrite profitable new and renewal business to meet LoB targets

• Negotiation of participation, pricing and terms and conditions

• Ownership of accounts / clients

• Develop and maintain relationships with brokers and clients

• Underwrite new and renewal accounts to meet top and bottom line targets

• Negotiate participation, pricing and terms and conditions with brokers

• Proactively manage capacity

• Underwrite and evaluate Natural Catastrophe Accumulation, ensuring an understanding of catastrophe modelling and interpretation of scenarios (for relevant LoBs)

• Ensure placing and binding of FAC Reinsurance prior to policy inception

• Ensure accurate policy documentation issued to broker, or broker has issued documentation

• File maintenance – ensure file is established (whether electronic or paper) and maintained for each risk and transaction handled

• Support acquisition of new business and retention of existing business  (including client and broker negotiations where necessary)

• Support market management initiatives

• Positively represent Arch externally to the market

• Proactively drive involvement of functional areas in Underwriting process, including e.g. MMC, AIRE, Claims, Operations

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key brokers and clients and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. risk managers)

Skills:

• Risk Assessment and Management: Ability to assess risk inherent exposures and natural hazards relevant to LoB

• Pricing and Market Mgt: Analyze current performance against benchmarks applying how the market operates and functions, the business needs and customer needs

• Contract Drafting and Interpretation: Design, develop and implement consistent, robust wordings

• Policy Management: Robust understanding of policy administration life cycle, information collection, policy issuance, premium bookings, credit control, cancellation.

• Communication skills: Clearly and effectively express ideas and messages via speech or writing.

• Influencing skills: Ability to persuade and motivate others to act, without executive authority

• Analytical Skills: Ability to effectively absorb information from various sources, then analyze, study or examine data in detail, and draw appropriate conclusions.

• IT skills (Office applications): Use general office application tools e.g. Power Point, Excel, Word.

Experience:

• 1-3 years proven track record in Underwriting profitable business in LoB. Understanding of LoB products and portfolio

• Demonstrable, established relationships with brokers at peer group level

• Good understanding of regional / local LoB insurance markets and competitor landscape

• Understanding of legal and regulatory framework

Education/Certification:

• Preferably a degree in Risk Management and Insurance, Business, Economics, Law, or other appropriate discipline

• Progress towards professional insurance qualification (e.g. CPCU, ARM)

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