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Lead Underwriter

4 months ago

Houston, United States QBE Full time

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The Opportunity

The job will execute Energy Liability business strategy by consulting with agency leaders in assigned territory and evaluate risk of Upstream portfolio to use sound decision-making and underwrite business that contributes to a profitable portfolio.

Primary Responsibilities
- Perform complex underwriting activities in accordance with all legal and regulatory requirements to ensure obligations are met
- Forge and maintain strong relationships with multiple agency leaders by utilizing high degree of business acumen to deliver sound underwriting decision-making, ensure personalized and quality service and garner support for department activities and business growth
- Optimize assigned line/s of business portfolio growth by reviewing, classifying, evaluating and rating complex business, communicating high-risk exposures to senior leaders, and providing feedback on recommendations
- Build relationships and facilitate projects by sharing expertise with peers, guiding product review/launch process, resolving escalated issues and monitoring impact of change to ensure department initiatives enhance the business
- Lead profitability and process/automation improvement initiatives by informing senior leaders on innovative underwriting best practices, guiding the development and implementation of strategic plans and training programs and tracking team performance within assigned territory to identify gaps and promote efficiencies for alignment with department objectives
- Manage documents in accordance with underwriting standards and policies and make sound decisions regarding underwriter recommendations to ensure adherence to business profitability objectives
- Manage budgeted resources by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs/costs and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility

Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Required Experience
- 7 years relevant experience

Preferred Competencies/Skills
- Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
- Negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups to settle differences with minimum noise
- Build and establish constructive and cooperative working relationships and open lines of communication
- Anticipate obstacles and challenges, identify root cause and strategize plans to address
- Establish and maintain effective, trusting and respectful relationships with customers in a matrix environment
- Effectively and efficiently present logic, reasoning and analysis to others
- Understand the needs and goals of a customer and actively look for ways to meet them
- Creativity and alternative, open thinking to generate and support new or better ways of doing things
- Communicate information in a clear, well-organized, and professional manner
- Establish a high degree of trust and credibility with others
- Build long-term collaborative working relationships with senior managers
- Adapt and be flexible in a complex changing environment
- Utilize personal credibility to influence others

Preferred Licenses/Certifications
- Depending on assigned line(s) of business
- specific participation and memberships are preferred and may include one or more of the following: Professional Liability Underwriting Society
- Surety & Fidelity Association of America
- American Bankers Association and Professional Liability Underwriting Society
- or RIMS

Preferred Knowledge
- Strong working knowledge of products and insurance concepts
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong working knowledge of underwriting processes and procedures
- Strong working knowledge of laws and regulations related to area of responsibility
- Events affecting the industry, including understanding of competition and the marketplace for assigned line(s) of business

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future by helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realizing our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the center of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other to enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than 12,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.

We believe this is our moment: What if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen

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