Underwriter

• 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.

Commercial CAT Underwriting Manager

• 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.
• Coaching and reviewing the work of lower level professionals to ensure high-quality and timely completion of projects.

Associate Director, CPACE Underwriting Transaction Management

• Manages and coordinates the activities for assigned Business Banking Underwriting department
• Ensures quality service and effective support for all of the assigned internal and external customers
• Accomplishes results through the effective management of staff that may range from lower level non-exempt through exempt level professionals
• Administers corporate policies and procedures and ensures compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Conducts underwriting review process in a manner designed to minimize the bank’s risk while employing problem resolution techniques in approving loans
• Provides support and training for all staff, including underwriting guidelines for underwriting staff

Business Banking Underwriting Manager

• Manage the profitability, growth, and retention of business within a location or region.
• Partner with RVP to develop and implement business strategies to effectively achieve profit and growth objectives.
• Effectively manage local strategies, objectives and tactics concerning relationships with brokers and agencies.
• Underwrite and skillfully negotiate the most complex, at-risk, or hard-to-close deals.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with internal partners within the business unit and across the enterprise to create sales strategies and identify cross-selling opportunities.
• Regularly meet in person with agents and brokers and have the ability to travel to these meetings.
• Provide strategic direction and support for team and take responsibility for coaching, training, and performance management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Underwriting Managing Director – Ocean Marine

• Lead production underwriter for the territory.
• Profit and loss responsibility for the book of business within the region.
• Supervises a regional team of underwriters, though remains accountable as the ultimate manager of the book of business.
• Sets the surety business plan for the region, in line with the Surety LOB strategy.
• Initiates marketing activities with agents, brokers, and customers.
• Recruits, hires, and develop underwriters within the territory, both experienced and trainees.
• Manages recommendations for surety programs.
• Prepares budgeting, business plans, and expense management.
• Monitors and manages the quality of the surety portfolio towards profitability.

Regional Surety Bond Underwriting Manager

• Strategize with clients ranging from Fortune 10 to Fortune 500 companies that want to differentiate themselves in the marketplace via their benefits offerings and ensure that underwriting can support their benefits strategies sustainably.
• Strategically partner with actuaries and our pharmacy division that develops in-house formularies, pricing, and product design that strategically align with our mission to make healthcare work better and be more cost-effective.
• Provide underwriting oversight for the unique Alaska market where Premera has a close partnership with providers, hospitals, brokers, employer groups, unions, public entities, and native corporations.
• Oversee stop-loss renewals, working closely with self-insured groups in this complex market.

Director, Underwriting

• Process Surety business through data entry, Underwriter support, understanding rating scenarios, and producing error-free work through strong attention-to-detail
• Develop superior working relationships with underwriters and act as the first point of contact with timely service inquiries
• Maintain successful relationships with agencies and clients
• Display and use knowledge with filed rates, minimum premium, rater and assisting with line cards
• Manage internal reports: monthly renewal, status reports, data cleanup projects, submission under review & quoted status
• Provide support to Surety UW Center team (other UAs, account management, bond forms, collections)

Underwriting Assistant, Surety

• Manage 3 UW teams and develop their skill sets in line with our underwriting philosophy and guidelines
• Maintain relationships and stay on the cutting edge of new third party data offerings. Identify, pilot, and engage new tools to improve underwriting
• Communicate with our insurance partners in concert with Ladder’s business development director who leads the relationship management of our reinsurers and carriers
• Partner with actuary to present mortality slippage each month to Ladder’s mortality team
• Serve as a subject matter expert to engineering and product teams as we build new insurance offerings

• Responsible for overall management, business development, analysis and monitoring of complex underwriting risks
• Works with senior management on complex underwriting risks employing advanced analysis to assess acceptability
• Develops specialized endorsement language for complex risks
• Determines appropriate pricing of complex risks for assigned book of business based on financial and competitive analysis
• Participates in the development and implementation of underwriting policy and business strategy

Underwriting Consulting Director – Commercial Construction P&C

• Effectively handle all incoming calls and follow up calls – up to 100% of shift handling calls
• Provides superior customer service, responding to requests for interpretations of guidelines and procedures, rating inquiries and premium discrepancies in a prompt and professional manner
• Research policy information and exercise underwriting authority
• Escalate risks beyond designated authority level to Commercial Underwriter/Sr. Commercial Underwriter or Supervisor/Manager
• Process high volume policy change requests from internal and external customers.
• Assist with questions related to billing, compliance guidelines and procedures, rating inquiries, etc.

Commercial Underwriting Associate

• Bring your expertise as an underwriter to cross-functional Ladder work teams.
• Evaluate medical and personal history on life insurance applications up to $8 million face amount.
• Participate in the development of the Underwriting team members.
• Collaborate with the Underwriting Audit team to enhance Underwriting Guidelines and clearly communicate audit finding feedback to the Underwriting team.
• Work closely with the Customer Experience and Compliance teams to answer underwriting related questions and share underwriting knowledge.
• Be comfortable both underwriting and applying your knowledge to systems and processes.
• Report to the Head of Underwriting.

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