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Farm &Commercial Field Undewriter
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Farm &Commercial Field Undewriter
Austin, TX
Allied Insurance
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Career Field; Underwriting, Sales/Marketing .
Insurance Discipline; Property &Casualty .
Relocation Assistance; Available .
Job Duration; Full Time .
Salary Offered; Open .
This is a work from home position that will service a designated territory in the Austin,TX area.
This is an Agribusiness Field Underwriter position.
JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for generating new, profitable commercial lines business production from agencies in assigned territory. Has a good, workable knowledge of commercial contracts and is familiar with various commercial insurance policy language and endorsements. Begins to develop partnership with sales managers in order to extract new business from the agency force to review, quote, inspect and issue. Develop relationships with agencies for the purposes of writing new business. Achieve the territorial strategic and operating plan objectives for profit, production, and service.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Within delegated authority levels and company guidelines, accepts, rejects, or modifies new commercial lines business to ensure profitability. Prices business according to company underwriting and pricing guidelines, and ensures standards for timelines are met.
2. Accurately evaluates risk exposures. Underwrite new business, review apps., select business to quote and reject the business that is unacceptable, class and price according to guidelines. Underwriting also includes reviewing MVR's, financial reports and loss control reports.
3. Gather competitive data, prepare reports, and perform loss control inspections.
4. Conduct routine field inspections of accounts, with and without agents. Make recommendations based on findings.
5. Expected to maintain frequent visitation schedule with all assigned agents and establish the company as the commercial lines provider of choice for the agencies in the territory.
6. Ability to manage heavy workload effectively and backup other team members as needed.
7. Knowledge of regional office strategic direction and plan, including goals and objectives to achieve profit and growth.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Undergraduate degree preferred. Pursuit of technical insurance coursework such as CPCU highly desirable.
Experience: Three years commercial underwriting experience and/or portfolio management.
Knowledge: Requires knowledge of commercial underwriting practices, procedures, and policies. Some knowledge of agency operations and field agency support needs. Working knowledge of sales techniques, loss control and risk management.
Skills/Competencies: Requires strong oral and written communication skills; able to convey the commercial message in a positive manner to agents.
Applicant Category: Professional
Requisition Code: Work at home
Two Initials of Recruiter: bw
System Date: 01/21/2008
System Time: 13:33:44
Document Name(40): Farm &Commercial Field Undewriter
Source: Great Insurance Jobs - USA
SearchTerms: "work at home" "work from home"
URL(80): http://www.greatinsurancejobs.com/job/insurance/120863/
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