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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The Hanover Insurance Group

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1852

🛡️ Insurance

🤝 B2B

👥 B2C

💰 $500M Post-IPO Debt - The Hanover Insurance Group on 2025-08

Insurance • B2B • B2C

The Hanover Insurance Group is a U. S. -based insurance company that provides personal and commercial insurance products and services. Hanover offers individual lines such as home, auto, motorcycle, umbrella, condominium, renters, and specialty coverages (collector cars, watercraft, valuable items), as well as comprehensive business products including business owner’s policies, commercial auto, workers' compensation, management liability, cyber, professional liability, property, surety, and industry-specific coverages for construction, healthcare, life sciences, retail, and more. The company supports customers and agents with claims services, policy management tools, educational resources, risk solutions, and an agent/broker distribution network. Hanover emphasizes customer service, preparedness resources, corporate responsibility, and agent support.

📋 Description

• Identify, solicit, and underwrite new Contract Surety accounts that drive profitable growth • Manage relationships with key partners in the agency plant • Manage the assigned book of business, generally with moderate to high technical complexity and scope • Operate with limited supervision in underwriting and marketing capacities • Work within general expertise and authority levels • Contribute to region and business unit goals • 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 • Develop new business opportunities with key agencies • Serve as a trusted advisor to agents, brokers, and clients across the territory

🎯 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 • Inclusive and collaborative work environment • Career growth and new experiences • Support to succeed • Regular business travel throughout the assigned territory