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

• Responsible for supporting the underwriting process for property coverages.
• Provide technical underwriting and administrative support for assigned new and renewal accounts.
• Collect and reconcile new and renewal submission information to prepare policy/account files for underwriter review.
• Review and analyze account information for necessary underwriting data.
• Maintain various databases to ensure all systems accurately reflect updated account information.
• Produce quotes and binders for new and renewal accounts/policies with minimal guidance.
• Perform quality control checks to ensure data accuracy and maximize the integrity of information.
• Provide excellent customer service in a timely and professional manner to internal and external customers.

Underwriting Assistant – Marine Underwriting

• 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

• 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

• Under direct supervision, underwrites and assesses risk and makes recommendations for less complex accounts in a market segment.
• Establishes effective relationships with customers, agents and brokers.
• Develops consultative sales and marketing skills through their interaction with agents/brokers and via coaching from their manager.
• Develops negotiation skills through their interaction with agents/brokers and via coaching from their manager.
• Develops planning and organization skills necessary to effectively manage desk and assume a territory.
• Effectively collaborates with others on all aspects of job. Understands the need to seek enterprise-wide solutions to business problems.
• Takes initiative for personal development and seeks to learn through underwriting, marketing, and other related opportunities.

Underwriting Professional Development Program, Select

• 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

• Manage assigned portfolio to achieve premium and profitability goals
• Underwrite applications in accordance with guidelines
• Develop and maintain producer relationships

Underwriting Consultant, Commercial Middle Market

• Serve as the underwriting subject matter expert and primary business owner for Hamilton Select’s underwriting platform, partnering with Underwriting, Operations and Technology on architecture, product prioritization, and delivery.
• Translate underwriting, operations and distribution business needs into platform capabilities and digital solutions.
• Define and continuously refine underwriting workflows, rules, and data requirements across the business recognizing any planning for necessary differences in requirements between brokerage and binding authority business across all aspects of functionality and development.
• In conjunction with Human Resources, Communications, Underwriting Management, and Technology, support a comprehensive Change Management strategy to drive adoption across underwriting, distribution, and operations.
• Represent platform and digital distribution capabilities in senior leadership forums, steering committees, board-level reporting, and external partner discussions.
• Partner with Underwriting Management, Distribution and Technology to execute Hamilton Select’s Digital Distribution strategy, including prioritization of key brokers, portals, and exchange connectivity.

Head of Underwriting Platform Development

• Preparing term sheets for early-stage deals and assisting with presentation materials when needed.
• Managing deal structuring negotiations, leading borrowers and senior lenders through how PACE can be a value-add in development project capital stacks.
• Leveraging third-party market research, such as CoStar, to support underwriting assumptions.
• Identifying transaction risks and tracking exceptions to Nuveen Green Capital’s underwriting criteria.
• Drafting and presenting credit memos to obtain credit approval, interfacing with Nuveen Green Capital’s credit team to troubleshoot underwriting concerns.
• Completing loan files accurately and thoroughly.
• Leading a diverse pipeline of C-PACE projects of various complexity, triaging and prioritizing the most impactful next steps for the overall pipeline.
• Communicating internally with originations, credit, legal, and asset management teams and externally with clients and partners to keep the deal team on track for key milestones and closing.
• Working with mortgage holders (where applicable) to gain consent for C-PACE financing.
• Supporting relationships with developers, brokers, mortgage lenders and other industry stakeholders.
• Preparing for client meetings, including development of background material and presentations.
• Increasing market awareness of Nuveen Green Capital.
• Going above and beyond to ensure a positive customer experience, creatively solving challenging problems, and enthusiastically supporting Nuveen Green Capital’s mission to be the Lender of Choice for our clients and partners.
• Coaches and reviews the work of lower level professionals to ensure high-quality and timely completion of projects.

Associate Director, CPACE Underwriting Transaction Management

• Develop and grow a profitable non-admitted property insurance portfolio for U.S. middle and upper middle market accounts in the Northeast region
• Create business plans with Distribution
• Build broker relationships
• Underwrite and negotiate property coverage
• Monitor portfolio performance
• Identify opportunities to drive growth and differentiation

AVP, Property Underwriting

• Manage program/contract level lifecycle including input all required underwriting submissions, quotes, declines, and bind details accurately and promptly into the appropriate underwriting systems
• Adjust earned premium income, processing premium and non-premium bearing endorsements, addressing discrepancies by liaising with underwriter, broker, client or internal teams across Sompo
• Maintain accurate file documentation in accordance with company guidelines
• Produce reporting in support of normal duties or on demand underwriter requests
• Communicate with clients, brokers, and underwriters to gather additional information, clarify details, and address inquiries regarding underwriting submissions
• Collaborate with underwriting team members to relay information, coordinate tasks, and support the overall underwriting process
• Assist with internal and external audits by providing documentation and information related to underwriting activities
• Deliver excellent customer service as well as displaying a sense of urgency when addressing inquiries, resolving issues to ensure a positive experience for clients and stakeholders

Underwriting Assistant Analyst

• Research industry and financial market trends, run data queries, and analyze information requested by internal and external partners.
• Process trades accurately across trading systems; research, analyze, and resolve related issues using appropriate tools and resources.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure deals are posted correctly, provide month-end information, and deliver profit/loss reports to support accurate trade posting.
• Support the marketing of the firm’s municipal bond underwritings.
• Coordinate with Public Finance Bankers and Sales Representatives to support information flow for marketing and pricing new issues.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of each issue’s structure and unique features; review bond documents for accuracy and timely information sharing during marketing, including preparation of selected new-issue materials as needed.
• Support Underwriting Desk objectives and contribute to firm profitability by providing insight on scales, the municipal market, trades, and inventories.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned, including backing up department roles or training new personnel when needed.

Fixed Income Underwriting Specialist – Municipal Bonds

• 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

• Understand and analyze business reports needed in the underwriting processes
• Responsible for all risk selection/rejection, pricing, retention, growth, and profitability for their branch office
• Assess risk quality in compliance with company guidelines
• Review the underwriting of others and make recommendations for extending surety credit
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Communicate effectively
• Deliver exceptional customer service

Commercial Surety Underwriting Specialist

• Lead a specialized team managing complex, high-value disability cases
• Operationalize strategy and implement solutions to improve experiences for underwriters, advisors, and customers
• Foster a culture of risk discipline, accountability, collaboration, and knowledge sharing
• Assume full ownership/accountability of underwriting decisions including escalations
• Collaborate with leadership to challenge the status quo and improve operations costs and quality
• Implement and monitor key performance metrics to drive improved outcomes in placement ratios and advisor satisfaction
• Maintain competitive awareness through participation in industry events and strategic initiatives

Director of Disability Underwriting – Large Case Unit

• Join our team as we help shape the future.
• You'll be on a team known throughout the industry for providing our customers with just the right amount of coverage.
• Your underwriting career means collaboration, inclusivity, innovative thinking and so much more.
• You'll put your creative insights to work with other underwriters and leaders, having a seat at the table with key decision makers.
• Opportunities for your career to grow in whatever direction you choose.

Underwriting Director, Ocean Cargo

• Lead an underwriting department for the Healthcare Practice Solutions Group (HPSG)
• Manage approximately 6 underwriters
• Oversee workflow and review of approval packages
• Recommend and/or approve loans within NCUM I credit authority
• Ensure adherence to Risk Policies and drive satisfactory regulatory audits
• Build and maintain productive relationships with business partners

National Commercial Underwriting Manager I – Healthcare Practice Solutions

• The Underwriting Specialist is a key member of the Underwriting team reporting to the Regional Underwriting Manager.
• The primary goal of this position is to profitably grow a book of business by actively partnering with brokers and working effectively with colleagues throughout the organization.
• This person will plan and budget for the book of business, develop and maintain broker relationships, and execute underwriting decisions.
• Underwriting Specialists are able to handle the large, complex accounts, and are expected to handle key relationships with a broker at the principle and PL manager level as well as drive business in the door through active engagement with COIs.
• Responsible for new and renewal underwriting execution, including selecting risks in line with PURE’s strategy and underwriting guidelines, operating within authority and documentation guidelines and following up on accounts and closing new business.
• Responsible for delivering excellent referral service to more junior Underwriters on the Underwriting team, and assisting in their development.
• Command of their book of business and ability to clearly identify and address profitability and growth issues and implement effective profit improvement strategies with minimal outside support.

Underwriting Specialist

• 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

• Design and execute underwriting strategies that drive profitable growth while ensuring strong, risk-adjusted returns.
• Establish and oversee underwriting guidelines, pricing models, and risk selection standards to ensure consistency and sound decision-making.
• Monitor and evaluate portfolio performance, underwriting KPIs, and loss trends to identify opportunities for improvement and optimize results.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of commercial underwriters, ensuring alignment with company goals and fostering professional growth.
• Conduct quarterly quality assurance audits, assess underwriting accuracy and compliance, and present actionable insights to senior leadership.

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AVP, Underwriting Analysis

Underwriting Assistant – Marine Underwriting

Underwriting Specialist, Equipment Breakdown

Middle Market Underwriting Leader

Underwriting Professional Development Program, Select

Manager, Underwriting Support

Underwriting Consultant, Commercial Middle Market

Head of Underwriting Platform Development

Associate Director, CPACE Underwriting Transaction Management

AVP, Property Underwriting

Underwriting Assistant Analyst

Fixed Income Underwriting Specialist – Municipal Bonds

Manager, Underwriting Support

Commercial Surety Underwriting Specialist

Director of Disability Underwriting – Large Case Unit

Underwriting Director, Ocean Cargo

National Commercial Underwriting Manager I – Healthcare Practice Solutions

Underwriting Specialist

Underwriting Operations Manager

Commercial CAT Underwriting Manager