Executive Underwriter, Commercial Insurance Specialty

Job Description

We are currently looking for an Executive Commercial Lines Underwriter in our Portland, OR Branch.

Position Responsibilities

• Financial performance, including profit, rate, retention, and growth, of an approximate $8M renewal book of Middle Market Multi-Line Commercial P&C Business.
• Responsibilities include new business production with a goal of $1.5M each year.
• Identifying opportunities for growth within new and existing production sources and developing and executing a new business growth strategy including developing prospects.
• Successful market penetration and agency management including building, maintaining and managing producer and customer relationships.
• Developing agency strategy and goals with continual monitoring of progress.
• Identifying cross sell opportunities within commercial products and services.
• Soliciting, selecting and analyzing risk within Chubb Commercial Insurance guidelines and ensuring proper documentation.
• Developing and negotiating price, coverage, and terms and conditions for all new business and renewals and actively identifying account rounding opportunities.
• Meeting with producers and new and renewal customers to make sales presentations including product education and new product roll out.
• Collaborating with underwriters, operations, claims, marketing and home office product management.
• Consistently meeting service standards.
• Collecting and sharing industry intelligence with team, including industry trending and development.

Qualifications

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Solid knowledge of specialty commercial underwriting and insurance industry theories and practices.
• Demonstrated technical expertise and product specific knowledge with experience handling commercial insurance lines.
• Strong analytical skills including financial analysis.
• Demonstrated proficiency in sales, marketing and negotiation.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills.
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of internal and external business partners.
• Experience developing and executing on marketing plans and prospects.
• Ability to be creative and adaptable in a changing business environment.
• Sound, balanced and timely decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite as well as other business-related software.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years underwriting experience preferred.

About Us

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.