Sr Sales Underwriting Specialist, Middle Market
Hanover Insurance Group
- New Jersey
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for identifying, soliciting, underwriting and selling new and renewal Middle Market accounts that drive profitable growth and align with Industry Segments, appetite and mix goals.
- Apply advanced technical, sales and analytical skills to provide insurance solutions that help Hanover’s customers manage risk. Demonstrates a thorough understanding of Hanover’s strategies and appetites and will use internal and external data to make appropriate individual and portfolio risk decisions.
- Operates within a broad Letter of Authority for all underwriting decisions and with limited direction while managing an assigned book of business, generally with high technical complexity and coordination.
- Knows and applies advanced underwriting concepts including risk selection, exposure and hazard identification and control, coverage implications, and loss analysis.
- Uses all appropriate underwriting tools (e.g. RQI, WC RST, UWWS, and CLAY.), disciplines and knowledge of strategies to ensure underwriting guidelines are followed.
- Advanced knowledge of pricing components and rating methodology and correlates pricing to exposure, financial and competitive analysis.
- Completes file documentation according to best practices guidelines and state regulations and can clearly explain account decisions.
- Adheres to CAT guidelines and underwriting discipline to minimize exposure and appropriately price individual risks. Applies increased knowledge of CAT aggregation to decision making. Portfolio Management & Financial Acumen:
- Manages assigned portfolio to achieve gross written premium, profitability, rate, retention, industry and LOB mix, new business and portfolio management goals.
- Reviews key metrics and uncovers trends that may lead to new business opportunities with agents while achieving profitable growth in accordance with business strategies.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the market factors and trends that can affect pricing (i.e. distribution channels, competition, organization’s growth/ profit strategy, regulation, reinsurance costs and branding).
- Prepares or analyzes information on adverse underwriting decisions, rate appeals, underwriting requirements, status and declinations in order to drive results within the assigned territory.
- Supports the implementation of profit improvement initiatives with key agents.
- Can identify, solicit, pipeline, negotiate, and close accounts aligned with MM branch strategy.
- Ability to profile assigned agency plant and to strategically market our capabilities to agents.
- Operates with a franchise perspective to identify and drive enhanced sell opportunities and create growth within other lines of business and customer segments.
- Utilize our value proposition to enhance agency economics, partner conversion and product specialization in partnership with local management.
- Prioritizes and drives effective relationship management and producer activities to build trust, facilitate negotiation, and secure commitment in order to improve yield and retention ratios.
- Keeps current on state/territory issues, regulations and trends. Utilizes market and competitor information to enhance agent relationships by becoming a trusted advisor.
- Through stewardship process engage at the customer level for the most complex and prominent accounts within their territory.
- Independently implements territory business plans, monitors performance, adjusts plan to ensure a substantial pipeline for future profitable growth.
- Makes sales presentations to agents and customers on a regular basis and participants in more complex accounts:
- Utilize Industry Solutions partners to augment sales process through enhanced knowledge transfer, strategic producer visits/sales calls, and effective training sessions for both agents and customers.
- Effectively utilize Claims, Risk Solutions and Operations to display service and/or technical expertise to build confidence in customers to further secure business opportunities.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 3-7+ years Underwriting experience, with a minimum of 3 years of experience underwriting MM accounts.
- 3+ years of experience driving agency relationships resulting in profitable new and renewal business.
- May specialize /certify in one or more Industry Segments.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- 401K with a company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- PTO
- Company paid holidays
- Flexible work arrangements
- Cultural Awareness Day in support of IDE
- On-site medical/wellness center (Worcester only)
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