What are the responsibilities and job description for the Small Business Senior Underwriter position at Westfield?
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- Manages the underwriting profitability growth and retention of new and renewal business that is consistent with underwriting strategies.
- Collects appropriate and accurate information required to assess potential clients and decides on the acceptable risk for a policy.
- Compares various policies having similar risk undertaking and conducts actuarial studies to decide on the company's loss records.
- Develops relationships with agencies, producers, and other distribution partners (producers) and works to understand their needs.
- Leverages portfolio underwriting of the book and territory leveraging analytics and information garnered through BI and other sources.
- Provides leadership with feedback on product, pricing and rate / rule activities of the competition and reviews high value inspections for assigned agencies.
- Strives to create and build effective communication externally (between agents and company) and internally (within the company) regarding underwriting procedures and practices, growth / profit goals and objectives, and agency relations.
- Negotiates with agents to reach positive and profitable outcomes and coordinates and owns agency business plans and key activities with oversight from Region Leader.
- Develops and maintains an operating knowledge of Westfield standardized hardware, software programs, third party software, and processing procedures.
- Influences current and prospective agencies, producers, and other distribution partners to represent and promote Westfield products and services to customers.
- Answers questions from agencies, producers, distribution partners policyholders or other external contacts and escalates issues to leadership as necessary.
- Collaborates with and leverages corporate shared services functions to bring the competitive strategy to life and achieve results; aligns with corporate governance while maintaining a singular focus on the customer.
Qualifications
Location
Hybrid defined as three or more days per week in the office.
Behavioral Competencies
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