Overview:If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we're hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Commercial Underwriter who is analytically minded, hands-on and a self-starter who has a deep understanding of commercial businessowners coverage and risk. This individual will make risk decisions based on a thorough analysis of exposures using various underwriting tools. The daily activities including the handling of new business risk referrals, underwriting renewals, reviewing, and making decisions from reports (property inspections/loss reports), all with customer centric agency interaction.
What you'd be doing:- Review new and renewal business from our referral system.
- Approve or deny requests to bind.
- Review property inspection reports and take appropriate underwriting action.
- Handle and manage phone calls and written inquiries from agents and referrals from support vendors.
- Regularly analyzes market conditions to learn and understand the coastal states commercial insurance environment we serve.
- Uses knowledge of the insurance industry to recommend innovation and/or new product or service offerings.
- Communicate with IT to resolve agency system related issues.
- Deep understanding of commercial insurance practices and regulations to analyze risk eligibility, evaluate prior incurred claims, and make appropriate risk-based decisions using sound underwriting judgement.
- Demonstrate successful agency and broker management, including building, maintaining, and managing producer and customer relationships.
- Complete ad-hoc projects as assigned.
We're looking for someone who has:- Minimum four (4) to six (6) years' underwriting experience in commercial lines
- Must demonstrate a strong working knowledge of commercial line underwriting procedures and insurance coverage.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and analyze data and make an informed, calculated risk decision.
- Exceptional verbal and written communicator
- Customer service orientated.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Comfortable with working under minimal supervision
- Possess a strong work ethic and can work individually or as part of a team.
- A college degree or equivalent experience and education
- Experience working directly with customers, insurance producers, and agents.
- Experience working with insurance software and MS Office Suite.
Highly preferred candidates also have:- Bachelor's degree in related field.
- Insurance industry designations.
