Senior Underwriting Specialist – Specialty GL

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🌵 Arizona, Colorado, +3 more states – Remote

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📋 Underwriter

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Hanover

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1996

🎯 Recruiter

💼 Consulting

Recruitment • Consulting

Hanover is an executive search and talent solutions firm focused on recruiting, developing, and placing senior leaders and advisory teams, primarily within financial services. The firm offers executive search, strategic consulting on talent strategy, coaching, outplacement, board services, workshops and leadership development, and market intelligence. With offices in London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, Hanover partners with banks, asset managers, insurers, wealth managers, fintechs and private equity firms to support the full talent lifecycle and build diverse, high-performing leadership teams.

📋 Description

• Identify, solicit, underwrite, and sell new and renewal accounts • Drive profitable growth aligned with unit appetite and growth goals • Provide insurance solutions for challenging product liability exposures • Apply advanced technical, sales, and analytical skills to assess and manage risk • Use internal and external data to make individual and portfolio risk decisions • Manage an assigned book of business with high technical complexity • Apply risk selection, exposure and hazard identification and control, coverage analysis, and loss analysis • Follow underwriting tools, disciplines, strategies, and guidelines • Assess pricing components and rating methodology against exposures • Determine key questions, operations scope, exposures, and controls from limited risk information • Complete file documentation and explain account decisions • Prepare rating instructions and proposals for agents • Manage portfolio goals including premium, profitability, rate, retention, product mix, new business, and portfolio performance • Analyze financial reporting and insurance performance measures • Analyze market factors affecting pricing across books, regions, and countrywide operations • Prepare and analyze underwriting decisions, requirements, appetite, status, and declinations • Identify, solicit, pipeline, negotiate, and close strategically aligned accounts • Market capabilities to agents and maintain agency relationships • Monitor state and territory issues, regulations, and trends • Use market and competitor information in account decisions • Build producer relationships to improve yield and retention • Identify cross-selling opportunities across lines of business and customer segments • Partner with business units to deliver comprehensive insurance solutions • Present Hanover products and appetite to agents and customers • Use sales systems, tools, and best practices • Leverage Claims and Loss Control expertise in the sales process • Mentor underwriters and assist with team training

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience • 5-7+ years underwriting experience • 5-7+ years’ experience driving agency relationships resulting in profitable new and renewal business • High hazard product liability experience • Ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems and manage and prioritize multiple concurrent projects • Knowledge of complex risks, pricing, trends, industry segments, coverages, and product knowledge • Ability to adapt quickly to change, exercise influence, and advocate for change • Informal leadership ability and willingness to mentor less experienced or newly hired underwriters • Strong communication and influence skills with internal and external business partners • Sound judgment, negotiation, and business decision-making ability within level of authority • Teamwork and collaboration skills across diverse teams • Ability to work remotely, hybrid, or onsite as determined by Company business needs

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements; role may be hybrid or fully remote • Occasional travel to key specialty locations • Full-time, exempt role • Diversity, equity, and inclusion workplace commitment