Underwriter

• Represent Property Division as SME (subject matter expert) for inquiries and participation in cross-functional teams/projects for S/M/L initiatives, i.e., Data Store, STM initiatives, etc.
• Business liaison coordinating requests/questions from service departments (Finance, Ceded Re, Claims, Actuarial, IT, Strategic Analytics, Compliance, Corporate UW, HR, Legal, UW Ops Services, Content Management)
• Support data quality among Property units
• Develop and maintain business templates for the Division on an as needed basis
• Manage UW Letter of Authority and authority level analysis
• Coordinate various audits (regional audits, SOX, corporate audit, reinsurer’s audit)
• Manage the Property Division SharePoint
• Back-up coordinator for Business Continuity Plan for the Property Division
• Provide underwriting support in application usage & navigation, maintain system access logs, and ensure appropriate access across the UW team
• Support underwriting team to refine the Property form sets, endorsements, and other ad hoc projects

AVP, Underwriting Analysis

• Leads and directs an underwriting group and is accountable for business results through overall management, profitability, and business development of a book of business
• Directs the work activities and has full management responsibility for the performance and development of subordinate staff
• Onboards, trains, coaches, leads and develops underwriters and participates in the development of underwriting training and accountable for granting underwriting authority
• Participates with senior management in the development and implementation of underwriting policy, marketing and business strategy; responsible for reviewing and approving referrals within authority
• Drives regional and business unit initiatives and strategies and holds underwriting team accountable for execution
• Develops and maintains agency and/or broker relationships to ensure positive and profitable outcomes
• Reports business progress to senior management

Underwriting Director – Technology P&C

• Underwriting risks in a book of business for Equipment Breakdown accounts
• Utilizing underwriting policies, rating manual rules, and insurance regulations
• Determining appropriate pricing of complex underwriting risks
• Analyzing profitability and quality of complex risks
• Marketing products and services through agencies and brokers
• Developing agency and broker relationships

Underwriting Specialist, Equipment Breakdown

• Using and booking of policies and endorsements.
• Performing all pre-quote work required by underwriting.
• Supporting various underwriting processes and communication with agents.
• Working side by side with underwriters to maintain growth and profitability.
• Completing various administrative tasks including risk assessment and policy management.

Underwriting Assistant, Custom Property

• Provide leadership and oversight for the Middle Market underwriting team
• Leads and oversees Middle Market underwriting, guiding a team to effectively evaluate, price, and manage complex risks
• Drives development to remain competitive and monitors performance and claims trends
• Accountable for P&L results, manages key metrics, and implements corrective actions as needed
• Fosters a culture of accountability and excellence through coaching, audits, and governance of underwriting authority
• Collaborates cross-functionally with Distribution, Claims, Pricing, and Risk Management

Middle Market Underwriting Leader

• Own and actively grow a profitable book of inland marine and property business across the region
• Build and strengthen agency relationships to drive consistent, high-quality new business flow
• Evaluate risks, pricing, and coverage structures using experience and judgment, knowing when to lean in and when to walk away
• Analyze submissions, loss history, exposure changes, and external data to make informed, disciplined underwriting decisions
• Set pricing that reflects the risk, using advanced loss analysis and sound judgment aligned with company strategy
• Structure deals creatively when needed, using coverage features, deductibles, or reinsurance to meet both client and company goals
• Interpret policies and contracts clearly, providing guidance to brokers and internal partners, including claims when questions arise
• Meet in person with distribution partners a minimum of 5 times per month

Underwriting Director, Inland Marine & Property

• Responsible for supporting underwriting and new business operations by processing group information, renewals, maintaining accurate records, coordinating documentation, and providing administrative and operational support to underwriting teams, agents, and internal departments.
• Process assigned new business groups by entering and managing data across multiple systems, including MARK, Access, and Dynamics.
• Assign new business underwriters and operations specialists.
• Create and maintain new business folders within underwriting shared drives.
• Set up new business quotes and notes in MARK.
• Create and update Group Facts screens by entering member eligibility data.
• Order group billing materials and plan documents.
• Process monthly Renewals timely and accurately.
• Review renewal quote for errors and update.
• Monitor and process Participation.
• Call potential groups regarding their medical history/conditions using medical questionnaires.
• Answer phone inquiries from groups, agents, and Starmark distribution partners concerning problems, procedures, status, or general information.
• Correct Group Facts errors and update system data, as necessary.
• Combine and transfer new business group documentation to G360 (Document Center).
• Audit new business groups and renewals to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Enter Patient Notes timely and accurately.
• Process close out of New Business groups.
• Participate in departmental projects and assist with QA testing initiatives.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Underwriting Operations Specialist

• Lead, mentor and develop account managers and supervisors.
• Establish team goals, performance metrics and capacity plans aligned with business objectives.
• Drive a culture of accountability, quality and continuous improvement.
• Oversee end to end underwriting support operations new business set up, policy issuance, renewals and endorsements.
• Ensure consistent application of procedures, workflows and best practices.
• Manage volume fluctuations and resource allocation to support underwriting demand.
• Own quality management processes, including audits, remediation and reporting.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, internal controls and adherence to underwriting guidelines.
• Identify operational risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Lead process optimization initiatives to improve efficiency, accuracy and customer experience.
• Partner with technology and underwriting teams on system upgrades, automation and data initiatives.
• Analyze KPIs and performance data metric trends to inform decisions and improvements.
• Serve as a key operational partner to underwriting leadership.
• Communicate performance, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Collaborate to support product growth and operational initiatives.
• Support budget planning, forecasting and vendor or outsourcing strategies as applicable.
• Optimize staffing models and leverage tools/automation to manage costs and scale operations.

Manager, Underwriting Support

• Own risk selection, pricing, and appetite across NGBs, professional teams, and events.
• Shape policy design and wording, not just the rate.
• Codify your judgment into rating models, appetite rules, and referral logic.
• Review referrals and complex risks, and feed every decision back into the system.
• Build and lead the sports underwriting team from the ground up as the book scales.

Sports & Entertainment Underwriting Manager

• Partner with key stakeholders to manage the formulation of strategic credit policy for AHL, maintaining objective and robust credit boundaries.
• Translate credit strategy into clear, actionable, and consistently applied underwriting guidelines.
• Maintain a single source of truth for underwriting guidelines, including version control, change governance, and clear communication of updates.
• Serve as the bridge between credit strategy/modeling and underwriting operations, ensuring strategy is operationally executable and that operational feedback informs strategy.
• Partner with underwriting leadership to optimize processes, reduce cycle time, and improve decision consistency without weakening credit boundaries.
• Support the AHL Third-Party Origination (TPO) channel on credit policy, ensuring broker and correspondent partners operate within Achieve's credit boundaries.
• Develop TPO-specific overlays, guidance, and communications, and serve as the credit-policy point of contact for the channel.
• Own real-time monitoring of TPO credit performance - early-payment default, exception and overlay trends, guideline adherence, and fraud signals - and trigger timely, well-reasoned policy responses.
• Partner with TPO/wholesale leadership and channel counterparties to remediate performance issues and tighten or adjust policy where needed.

Director, Credit Policy – Underwriting Strategy

• Underwrite and produce profitable business within the authority granted and consistent with company goals.
• Maintain agency relationships, develop new relationships and recognize without bias any need to cease a relationship and contribute where possible to the amicable accomplishment, as necessary.
• Adheres to company underwriting guidelines, processes and tools, an individual grant of authority, and appropriate regulatory and compliance requirements in the risk analysis and underwriting decision-making process.
• Examines information such as insurance applications, websites, inspection reports, loss information, financial data and third-party data in evaluating and making appropriate risk/reward decisions.
• Effectively express information and ideas clearly through spoken, written and electronic means.
• Demonstrates and effectively communicates an understanding of products and services.
• Provide prompt & courteous responses to both internal & external customers.
• Actively engages with distribution to market our capabilities, benefits, and features, and identify new opportunities.
• Effectively leverages metrics and data to improve territory performance.
• Understands market/industry issues, trends, and competitors.
• Perform other tasks as needed.

Excess Casualty Underwriting Specialist

• Provide day-to-day oversight for the Underwriting Operations Team within the Management Liability unit
• Lead organizational change; develop and empower staff; cultivate relationships
• Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, and ongoing feedback
• Oversees training and quality product output of account management staff
• Use metrics to monitor daily workloads, prioritize assignments, and ensure SLAs are met; investigate and resolve abnormalities
• Foster collaborative relationships with internal and external customers
• Perform other duties as needed

• Support Underwriting by creating policy documents, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
• Order inspections, premium audits, and loss runs as required
• Maintain electronic and/or physical underwriting file
• Solicit renewal transactions
• Provide basic operational support for the product line’s underwriters
• Develop underwriting information from the internet and other data sources as requested by underwriters.

Underwriting/Operations Assistant – Contract Pac Package

• Perform data entry into policy administration systems
• Process tasks accurately and timely to maintain departmental productivity, quality, and service standards
• Create new business / renewal accounts in the appropriate system(s) and filing all relevant documentation
• Process and issue policies accurately and within established standards
• Process and issue endorsements, accurately, and within established standards
• Confirm all binder information is accurate in appropriate system(s) before booking the policy.
• Review and maintain underwriting files to warrant a satisfactory file completion.
• Process Broker of Record changes timely and create and distribute applicable broker correspondence
• Correspond with underwriters, brokers, and cross functional teams.

Underwriting Assistant

• As the Operations Manager, Underwriting you will be responsible for the operational performance of the underwriting function, with two primary areas of accountability.
• Leadership and development of the Underwriting Assistant (UA) team.
• Management and optimization of workflow, service delivery, and operational productivity across the underwriting operation.
• Ensure efficient and consistent workflow management across the underwriting lifecycle.
• Maintain capacity planning and service delivery metrics for underwriting leadership.
• Collaborate closely with the Underwriting Manager to align operational execution with portfolio priorities and production goals.
• Attract, select, retain, lead, and develop a team of Underwriting Assistants.
• Provide performance coaching and technical mentorship to Underwriting Assistants.
• Own underwriting operational performance end-to-end.
• Monitor submission, renewal and endorsement volumes and manage workload distribution across the team.
• Maintain production dashboards and operational reporting to support underwriting leadership.

Underwriting Operations Manager

• Responsible for achievement of top and bottom-line results for new and renewal business
• Deliver on underwriting profit results with focus on profitability, loss ratio and combined ratio
• Analyze group medical claims data, demographics, and plan designs to assess risk and determine appropriate stop-loss premiums
• Collaborate with distribution and actuarial teams on complex case evaluations, renewals, and new business opportunities
• Mentor and train junior underwriters, sharing technical expertise and best practices

Medical Stop Loss Underwriting Practice Lead, Accident & Health

• Review of incoming submissions and subsequent documents/reports for completeness along with class of policy (Group or Individual), branch code and other required information
• Work with Underwriters and Sales staff to assess submitted information
• Process reserves in policy issuance system
• Participate as needed in systems and workflow development as required
• Review workload daily to prioritize timelines for medical underwriting review submissions
• Support our Benefits Underwriting Department with daily tasks
• Assist underwriters in managing a book of business and help improve the underwriting process
• Assist the Claims Department with authorized services, narratives, and reserves

Medical Benefits Underwriting Coordinator

• Assist and support benefit underwriters with quoting, rating and issuance of new business quotes, renewals, and endorsements
• Respond to problem situations from brokers and perform customer service tasks as needed
• Review of incoming submissions and subsequent documents/reports for completeness along with class of policy (Group or Individual)
• Work with Underwriters and Sales staff to assess submitted information
• Process reserves in policy issuance system
• Participate as needed in systems and workflow development as required
• Review workload daily to prioritize timelines for medical underwriting review submissions

• 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

• Review and analyze commercial title searches, surveys, and due‑diligence materials
• Identify and resolve title issues, exceptions, and underwriting risks
• Draft and approve title commitments, endorsements, and final policies
• Collaborate with escrow, production, attorneys, and national underwriters
• Provide guidance on complex deal structures, entity documentation, and closing requirements
• Communicate underwriting decisions clearly to internal teams and clients
• Ensure compliance with state regulations and underwriter guidelines

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AVP, Underwriting Analysis

Underwriting Director – Technology P&C

Underwriting Specialist, Equipment Breakdown

Underwriting Assistant, Custom Property

Middle Market Underwriting Leader

Underwriting Director, Inland Marine & Property

Underwriting Operations Specialist

Manager, Underwriting Support

Sports & Entertainment Underwriting Manager

Director, Credit Policy – Underwriting Strategy

Excess Casualty Underwriting Specialist

Manager, Underwriting Support

Underwriting/Operations Assistant – Contract Pac Package

Underwriting Assistant

Underwriting Operations Manager

Medical Stop Loss Underwriting Practice Lead, Accident & Health

Medical Benefits Underwriting Coordinator

Medical Benefits Underwriting Coordinator

Vice President, Management Liability Underwriting

Title Insurance – Commercial Underwriting