Senior Underwriting Specialist, Surety

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🏈 Alabama, Mississippi, +1 more states – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote 🎸 Mississippi – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 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, and underwrite new Contract Surety accounts that drive profitable growth • Manage relationships with key partners in the agency plant • Manage agency, broker, and account meetings and general workflow • Apply Hanover’s Surety strategies and appetite, using internal and external data to make individual and portfolio risk decisions • Coordinate with internal and external resources on moderately complex risks • Manage an existing portfolio and assigned book of business with moderate to high technical complexity and scope • Partner with key agencies to develop new business opportunities • Contribute to region and business unit goals • Operate in both underwriting and marketing capacities with limited supervision

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience • AFSB Designation Preferred • Generally, 5-10 years Contract Surety underwriting experience • 5+ years’ experience driving agency relationships resulting in profitable new business as well as complex accounts • Command of fundamental underwriting concepts, practices, and procedures • Very strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate difficult or technical decisions or comments with confidence and precision • Ability to adapt quickly to change, identify, analyze, and solve problems • Willingness to be open to new and different ways of thinking • Must be located in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia • Ability for regular business travel throughout the assigned territory

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Hybrid or fully remote work options • Comprehensive benefits to help employees stay healthy, build financial security, and balance work and home life