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Senior Underwriting Specialist – Specialty GL
The Hanover Insurance Group. Identify, solicit, underwrite, and sell new and renewal accounts .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in underwriting, risk assessment, and relationship management, with a strong focus on high hazard product liability and profitable growth strategies. Capable of mentoring and leading teams while effectively managing complex portfolios and driving agency relationships.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Underwriting ExperienceHigh Hazard Product LiabilityAgency Relationship ManagementAnalytical SkillsMentoring Ability
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Hard Skills
Risk AssessmentExposure IdentificationCoverage AnalysisPricingLoss AnalysisFile DocumentationPortfolio ManagementNegotiationDecision-MakingSales Skills
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsRelationship ManagementProblem-SolvingTeamworkCollaboration
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree
Industry Keywords
Insurance SolutionsProduct LiabilityMarket FactorsRegulationsPortfolio Performance
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Identify, solicit, underwrite, and sell new and renewal accounts
- Drive profitable growth aligned with unit appetite and growth goals
- Provide insurance solutions for challenging product liability exposures
- Apply underwriting, sales, and analytical skills to assess and manage risk
- Use internal and external data to make individual and portfolio risk decisions
- Manage an assigned book of business with high technical complexity
- Apply risk selection, exposure and hazard identification, coverage analysis, pricing, rating, and loss analysis
- Complete file documentation and explain account decisions
- Prepare rating instructions and proposals for agents
- Manage portfolio goals including premium, profitability, rate, retention, product mix, new business, and portfolio performance
- Analyze underwriting, rate, requirements, appetite, status, and declination information
- Identify, pipeline, negotiate, and close strategically aligned accounts
- Build agency and producer relationships and market company capabilities
- Monitor state and territory issues, regulations, trends, competitors, and market factors
- Partner with other business units, Claims, Loss Control, and Specialty teams
- Make presentations to agents and customers
- Mentor less experienced or newly hired underwriters and assist with training
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 5–7+ years underwriting experience
- 5–7+ years’ experience driving agency relationships resulting in profitable new and renewal business
- High hazard product liability experience
- Ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems and manage and prioritize multiple concurrent projects
- Advanced technical, sales, analytical, underwriting, pricing, and product knowledge
- Ability to adapt quickly to change and exercise influence
- Informal leadership and mentoring ability
- Strong communication and relationship-management skills
- Sound judgment, negotiation, and decision-making ability
- Teamwork and collaboration skills
- Ability to work onsite when required by business needs, including attending in-person meetings or training
- Travel may be required based on business needs
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible work arrangements; role may be hybrid or fully remote
- Occasional travel to key specialty locations
- Full-time, exempt role
- Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace