What are the responsibilities and job description for the Freight Underwriter Role position at Loadsure?
Job Overview
We are seeking a skilled Freight Underwriter to join our team at Loadsure. As a key member of our organization, you will play a critical role in providing underwriting expertise and exceptional service to our customers. This position requires a self-driven individual with strong organizational skills, excellent communication abilities, and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Skills and Qualifications:
We are seeking a skilled Freight Underwriter to join our team at Loadsure. As a key member of our organization, you will play a critical role in providing underwriting expertise and exceptional service to our customers. This position requires a self-driven individual with strong organizational skills, excellent communication abilities, and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results.
Key Responsibilities:
- Sourcing submissions from assigned trading partners through dedicated marketing and sales techniques.
- Growing the broker source usage based business for single shipments and shipper interest clients.
- Reviewing and providing clearance on High Value Shipment referrals within your partners and territory.
- Clearing annual business submissions and performing desk underwriting to review pertinent details of exposures to quote business within your authority and utilizing the Loadsure pricing tools.
- Ensuring timely and accurate data entry in the Loadsure portal.
- Maintaining your book of business by providing timely renewals to brokers and assureds.
- Liaising with claims, finance, compliance, and engineering teams on matters affecting or relating to accounts within the portfolio.
- Helping maintain team standards through supporting other team members in achieving their service/quality levels and targets as required.
- Providing weekly reports to the VP of product lines outlining production, referrals, and booked premiums.
- Completing required continued education training as assigned.
- Providing a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email, and telephone.
- Attending client meetings as required.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years' experience within ocean and inland marine.
- Willingness to travel – 20%.
- Strong numeracy skills.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Comfortable dealing with internal and external senior representatives.
- Eagerness and willingness to learn.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Self-starter and takes initiative.
- Effective listening, strong verbal and written communications skills (including grammar).
- Must have outstanding interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing technical environment.
