What are the responsibilities and job description for the Property & Inland Marine Manager position at United Fire & Casualty Company?
UFG is looking for a Property and Inland Marine Manager to join our team who will be held accountable for the organization's inland marine P&L and share in accountability for the property P&L, ensuring results achieve growth and profitability objectives. The individual in this role will work with the Property Leader in efforts within specialty, middle market, small business, inland marine, and other related disciplines to ensure appropriate risks are taken within the portfolio. This role has responsibility over marine technical discipline, which includes providing consultation to staff and business partners, identifying needs for technical training and review of complex risks. The individual in this role will proactively provide technical guidance and educational training opportunities to both property and marine underwriters to ensure disciplined underwriting.
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- Assume strategic responsibility and P&L accountability for the inland marine line of business. Share in this same responsibility with the Property Leader for property, including equipment breakdown.
- Review property / marine referrals based on technical complexity, market segmentation strategy, market appetite and collaborating with business leaders in analytics, product development, risk management, claims groups and region leadership to ensure alignment.
- Responsible for adhering to property catastrophe aggregation management strategy and execution across all business units and geographies.
- Provide guidance on acceptability on the most complex underwriting risks.
- Provides technical expertise and is a resource to region managers, underwriting managers, supervisors and underwriters. The ability to communicate complex property / inland marine concepts clearly.
- May conduct research for underwriters on specific classes of business, operations, or any other technical subject related to property / marine.
- Maintains current knowledge of regulatory environment and emerging issues within inland marine.
- Collaborates with internal partners to develop guidelines and deliver training to drive property / inland marine expertise across the Underwriting and Risk Control organizations.
- Lead collaborative and effective teams as assigned; analyzing and resolving problems, and executing team strategy.
- Develop key analytic insights, leading indicators, and profitability drivers through internal and external research for the inland marine line of business.
- Monitor the mix of business for the inland marine portfolio, identifying shifts in the mix, evaluate performance and uncover areas of opportunity for growth through expanded appetite and profitability improvement.
- Collaborate with all stakeholders involved in the execution of property / marine related deliverables, upholding the highest standards of transparency and proactive communication.
- Contribute to the evaluation of the competitive landscape to ensure sustainability of the property / inland marine books of business and makes recommendations to improve competitiveness.
- Act as a subject matter expert, maintain a thorough knowledge of company Product features and benefits as well as industry trends.
- Develop and maintain strong agency relationships with key customers to ensure positive and profitable outcomes on complex accounts.
- Other duties include delivering an effective human capital strategy, prioritizing employee development and providing accountability and resources for employees to achieve organizational goals.
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