Executive Underwriter, Specialty
Core
Lead business development and underwriting strategy for specialty agriculture/crop insurance, serving as a trusted partner to agents and sales teams to drive profitable growth and market expansion.
Role type
Senior IC executive underwriter (specialty agriculture)
Builds
New and renewal agricultural insurance policies
Domain
Insurance / Agriculture
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Business plan development, risk classification and assessment, pricing and rating, negotiation, automated underwriting systems utilization, industry trend analysis
Preferred skills
Leadership experience, data-centered decision making, knowledge of legal updates and technical developments
Technologies
Automated underwriting systems
Responsibilities
Develop business plans with agencies to improve book performance and profitability; Evaluate new and renewal policy applications to classify risk, determine acceptability, assign rating, and set pricing; Cultivate relationships with internal and external contacts to facilitate underwriting and promote business development; Serve as a resource to departmental staff regarding underwriting procedures and guidelines; Utilize automated underwriting systems to develop information for policies; Adhere to company underwriting authority directives and guidelines
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities