IAT Insurance Group

Underwriter

• Through collaboration with the EVP of the Excess Middle Market (MM), establish the underwriting direction, underwriting appetite, and underwriting authority for the Excess MM businesses to support profitability targets.
• Ensures compliance to underwriting direction, underwriting appetite, and underwriting authority through individual account discussions and underwriting audits.
• Collaborates with Excess MM leadership on the development of business plans, products, and IT support.
• Collaborates with Excess MM leadership to identify training needs and development of a plan to address needs.
• Coaches, mentors and directs training and development of the underwriting team to ensure underwriting quality and proficiency.
• Supports the development of staff through coaching, leading organizational change, cultivating relationships, putting staff in a position to succeed, and creating a climate where staff are motivated to do their best.
• Partner with support functions such as Product, Actuarial, Claims, Regulatory, Loss Control, and IT to ensure products are compliant, competitive, and profitable.
• Collaborate on the development of pricing models appropriate for various types of commercial lines.
• Coach, mentor, and direct training and development of individual underwriting teams to ensure underwriting and service quality and proficiency.
• Ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
• Identify and capitalize on expense reduction opportunities, through process and technology enhancements.
• Travel as needed. Perform other duties as assigned.

Vice President, Underwriting

• Partner with the SVP to guide the underwriting approach for the Management Liability business, including risk appetite and decision authority.
• Review and provide input on complex or higher-exposure accounts, and step in on key deals as needed.
• Lead a team of five underwriters, supporting their day-to-day work, performance, and development.
• Maintain your own book of business, including underwriting decisions, broker engagement, and portfolio performance.
• Build and maintain relationships with wholesale brokers within the West region.
• Partner with Product, Actuarial, and Claims to adjust pricing, coverage, and underwriting approach as needed.
• Monitor portfolio trends and adjust underwriting approach where appropriate.
• Look for ways to improve workflows and make underwriting processes more efficient.
• Ensure underwriting practices align with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and ongoing development of underwriting staff.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Vice President, Management Liability Underwriting

Recruitment

• Own full-cycle recruiting for a variety of niche roles
• Proactively source and screen candidates for strategic level positions through various sourcing tools and techniques to identify active and passive job candidates
• Identify, engage, and connect with top talent through traditional and creative sourcing techniques
• Deliver a diverse and qualified candidate pool to help fill short-term and long-term hiring needs by proactively and continually sourcing, developing, and maintaining a viable pipeline and network of qualified talent
• Partner with appropriate business unit leader or hiring manager during initial strategic recruiting meeting to establish clear understanding of position requirements, ideal candidates, competitors, and sourcing methods that will be used to build candidate pool
• Clearly communicate company culture and responsibilities to candidates
• Research, analyze, prepare and present hiring statistics to management
• Continuously champion our inclusive hiring practices and help drive our diversity sourcing initiatives
• Maintain documentation on prospects, searches, and most recent communication with prospective candidates
• Manage and coordinate communication with prospects as needed
• Attend Early Career and Professional Network events as needed
• Facilitate internal training sessions for employees or leaders as needed
• Perform other duties or projects as needed

Principal Recruiter

Manager

• Ensure talent programs align with IAT’s business strategy, culture, and future workforce needs
• Design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise talent programs including talent reviews and succession planning, performance and development frameworks, leadership and high-potential development initiatives and career pathways and internal mobility strategies
• Establish clear standards, frameworks, and success measures for talent initiatives
• Partner with HR Business Partners to understand business priorities, capability gaps and leadership needs
• Provide tools, guidance, and coaching to HRBPs and leaders to enable effective execution of talent programs within the business
• Serves as a thought partner to leaders on topics such as readiness, bench strength, and development planning
• Leverage talent data and insights (e.g., readiness metrics, internal mobility trends, engagement feedback) to inform decisions and measure impact
• Use insights to refine programs and proactively address emerging talent risks
• Partner with HR Technology & Operations to ensure talent processes are well supported by systems, data, and reporting
• Support adoption of talent initiatives through clear communication, leader enablement, and change management strategies
• Create practical, leader-friendly tools and resources that make talent programs easy to understand and use
• Act as an advocate for a strong, transparent, and development-focused talent culture
• Performs other duties as assigned

Talent Manager

• Manages the work activities, performance, and professional development of the underwriting department, including leading and supporting a geographically dispersed remote team.
• Manage agency relationships and book management.
• Coach underwriting leaders, mentor underwriters, and contribute to the design and delivery of underwriting training programs; travel is required.
• Makes recommendations on underwriting policy and pricing strategy to Business Unit Lead.
• Reviews and manages the application of underwriting policy and pricing for all risks.
• Drive key initiatives and business strategies.
• Represent the organization at key industry events and conduct agency visits.
• Partner with the Product department to develop new products and enhance underwriting approaches.
• Work with the Claims team to review large loss reports and take corrective action when necessary.
• Work with the Actuarial team to review pricing, underwriting results, and portfolio performance.
• Coordinate with the Marketing team to communicate value propositions and underwriting messages to agency partners.
• Stay current on state and territory regulatory requirements, industry activity, and market trends.
• Lead and participate in projects as assigned.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Underwriting Manager

Account Manager

• Enters schedules into proprietary rating systems.
• Establishes and maintains good working relationships with underwriters and agents.
• Prepares account service-related documents such as proposals and other client communications and correspondence.
• Assists in renewal process, reviewing for accuracy and making requested renewal changes.
• Documents new business declines and non-renewals.
• Summarizes loss runs.
• Reviews all company correspondence to ensure applicability to client needs.
• Answers and processes internal information requests.
• Reviews Policies, Endorsements, and Reporters for accuracy and compliance.
• Follows up with agencies on policy subjectivities and other missing Underwriting information.
• Ensures all required documentation and communication is sorted and filed for ease of access.
• Retrieves loss cost reports and other various property rating reports as needed for Underwriter.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Underwriting Support Associate, Account Manager

Claims Specialist

• Responsible for handling Management Liability Claims (EPL, D&O, Fiduciary and Crime) for Private and Non-Profit businesses based on Claim Guidelines
• Within authority limit, thoroughly analyze, investigate, negotiate and resolve all levels of severity claims
• Selects, directs and manages defense counsel including approval of budgets
• Develops litigation/file disposition strategy.
• Attends mediations, settlement conferences and trials
• Verifies/analyzes applicable coverage for the reported claims
• Follow operational policies and procedures, including compliance, regulatory and performance and customer service standards
• Prepare reports, including Large Loss Reports, to management which accurately reflects loss development, potential/actual financial exposure, coverage issues, claim and recovery strategies
• Establishes 24-hour contact and maintain appropriate contact with all involved stakeholders throughout the life of the claim file
• Identifies and addresses recovery/contribution/SIU opportunities
• Sets accurate/timely loss/expense reserves in compliance with Claim Guidelines.
• Drafts correspondence, including but not limited to, coverage letters to stakeholders as required
• Support business partners on an as needed basis on various claim and underwriting related issues and marketing meetings
• Maintains resident/nonresident adjuster licenses as required
• Performs other duties as assigned

Senior Management Liability Claims Specialist

General Counsel

• Responsible for handling Management Liability Claims (EPL, D&O, Fiduciary and Crime) for Private and Non-Profit businesses based on Claim Guidelines
• Within authority limit, thoroughly analyze, investigate, negotiate and resolve all levels of severity claims
• Selects, directs and manages defense counsel including approval of budgets
• Develops litigation/file disposition strategy. Attends mediations, settlement conferences and trials
• Verifies/analyzes applicable coverage for the reported claims
• Follow operational policies and procedures, including compliance, regulatory and performance and customer service standards
• Prepare reports, including Large Loss Reports, to management which accurately reflects loss development, potential/actual financial exposure, coverage issues, claim and recovery strategies
• Establishes 24-hour contact and maintain appropriate contact with all involved stakeholders throughout the life of the claim file
• Identifies and addresses recovery/contribution/SIU opportunities
• Sets accurate/timely loss/expense reserves in compliance with Claim Guidelines.
• Drafts correspondence, including but not limited to, coverage letters to stakeholders as required
• Support business partners on an as needed basis on various claim and underwriting related issues and marketing meetings
• Maintains resident/nonresident adjuster licenses as required
• Perform other duties as needed

Management Liability Claims Counsel

• Responsible for handling Management Liability Claims (EPL, D&O, Fiduciary and Crime) for Private and Non-Profit businesses based on Claim Guidelines
• Within authority limit, thoroughly analyze, investigate, negotiate and resolve all levels of severity claims
• Selects, directs and manages defense counsel including approval of budgets
• Develops litigation/file disposition strategy
• Attends mediations, settlement conferences and trials
• Verifies/analyzes applicable coverage for the reported claims
• Follow operational policies and procedures, including compliance, regulatory and performance and customer service standards
• Prepare reports, including Large Loss Reports, to management which accurately reflects loss development, potential/actual financial exposure, coverage issues, claim and recovery strategies
• Establishes 24-hour contact and maintain appropriate contact with all involved stakeholders throughout the life of the claim file
• Identifies and addresses recovery/contribution/SIU opportunities
• Sets accurate/timely loss/expense reserves in compliance with Claim Guidelines
• Drafts correspondence, including but not limited to, coverage letters to stakeholders as required
• Support business partners on an as needed basis on various claim and underwriting related issues and marketing meetings
• Maintains resident/nonresident adjuster licenses as required
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Management Liability Claims Specialist

Analyst

• Estimate potential losses from simulated and actual natural peril events
• Identify risk exposure to natural peril hazards by performing loss and GIS/geospatial analyses
• Extract, validate, manipulate, implement, and document input data from various sources
• Support catastrophe risk exposure pricing, including pricing, ratemaking, regulatory filings, underwriting, claims, exposure management, and reinsurance treaty placements
• Provide technical support for internal catastrophe modeling tools utilized by IAT underwriters and account managers
• Continuously advance knowledge of catastrophe models, methodologies, and related considerations
• Develop and execute model and input data testing and validation
• Participate in change and update management related to tools, data, methodologies, technology, models, and vendor platforms
• Perform other duties as needed

Catastrophe Modeling Analyst

Underwriting Support Associate, Account Manager – Inland Marine, Commercial Property

• Coordinate and confirm interviews between candidates and hiring teams.
• Own and centralize the onboarding process for all new hires, ensuring a seamless experience (with backup support as needed).
• Manually post job openings on specific job boards when required.
• Oversee and execute the annual purge of I-9 documentation in compliance with federal regulations.
• Assist with administrative tasks related to temporary recruiting needs.
• Manage and process recruiting-related invoices accurately and on time.
• Maintain and update labor law posters across all locations.
• Oversee new hire welcome gifts process and ensure a positive onboarding experience.
• Maintain company-branded merchandise for recruiting and employee engagement initiatives.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Recruiting Coordinator

Human Resources

• Providing operational support covering several HR functions including program administration, system administration, procedural documentation and workflows and financial accounting/analyses.
• Administering and responding to inquiries for multiple areas of HR total rewards programs pertaining to payroll, benefits, onboarding & offboarding, and all HR systems.
• Performing general and Statistical Analysis reporting to internal management and external agencies.
• Collaborating with appropriate service owners and other key stakeholders contributing to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and documented workflows.
• Processing employee lifecycle transactions in Workday, including hires, job changes, transfers, and separations.
• Maintaining accurate employee, organizational, and job data, ensuring high standards of data integrity.
• Monitoring and auditing HR data to identify compliance risks, errors, and opportunities for improvement.
• Serving as a Workday subject matter expert, troubleshooting user issues and identifying root causes of errors.
• Supporting semiannual Workday releases through regression and new functionality testing.
• Onboarding/offboarding of all new hires to include system entry as well as communication to new hires and exiting employees.
• Resolving any employee queries, such as those related to issues like salary, labor regulations, company programs and benefits related questions.
• Assisting with Rewards and Recognition program implementation and administration.