Agricultural/Farm Underwriting Manager
Agricultural/Farm Underwriting Manager - Liberty Northwest
Liberty Mutual Insurance
“Helping people live safer, more secure lives” since 1912, Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance is a diversified global insurer and third largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on A.M. Best Company’s report of 2010 net written premium. Liberty Mutual also ranks 82nd on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2010 revenue. As of December 31, 2010, Liberty Mutual had $112.4 billion in consolidated assets, $95.4 billion in consolidated liabilities, and $33.2 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
Liberty Mutual Insurance offers a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, workers compensation, property, commercial automobile, general liability, global specialty, group disability, reinsurance and surety.
Liberty Mutual Insurance (www.libertymutual.com) employs over 45,000 people in more than 900 offices throughout the world.
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Liberty Northwest is currently recruiting for an experienced Agricultural/Farm Underwriting Manager to work out of our Portland, OR office. In this role, you will manage a broad team of underwriters and underwriting assistants who support one or more of our territories and underwrite all Farm and Ag business. You will help us reach our financial targets through relationship management and disciplined underwriting, and will oversee and guide the implementation and successful execution of our business strategy by transforming our business to sustain error free processes. As a leader, you will be focused on process, problem solving, performance, partnering, purpose, and people. In addition, you will cultivate successful relationships with assigned independent insurance agencies to further profitable partnerships and long term, sustainable growth.
Liberty Northwest is a Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation company and a member of Liberty Mutual Group. Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation offers personal and commercial insurance through independent insurance agents throughout the United States. Commercial lines products are offered through eight regional companies and Liberty Agency Underwriters, which provides specialty commercial products, including excess casualty and program business. Personal lines products are offered nationally under the Safeco Insurance brand. Liberty Mutual Surety provides nationwide contract and commercial surety and fidelity bonds.
Responsibilities:
- Supervise the day-to-day underwriting operations by establishing priorities, scheduling and assigning work, adjusting schedules when necessary to meet completion dates, and assisting others with resolving complex problems while ensuring adherence to underwriting standards and objectives. Conduct underwriting audits and other technical quality review programs.
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative data prepared by underwriters and uses letters of authority to provide approval for risk selection and acceptance, coverage, and price. Recommend creative alternatives in regards to rating plans, coverages, and payment plans.
- Actively manages team to deliver timely, high quality and profitable products and services to assigned agents. Hire and train team members. Use the objective setting and performance evaluation processes to ensure employees understand the expectations, receive regular feedback, have professional development plans and are appropriately rewarded. Deal decisively with performance and/or conduct issues using the performance management process.
- Develop and maintain effective business relationships with internal and external clients in order to attract, develop and retain profitable business for assigned book of business. Interpret, explain and market all products and services. May interact frequently with brokers and/or agents.
- Participate with senior management in department and business unit-wide initiatives around product development, processes, underwriting policy and strategy; recommend/implement changes to improve productivity, profitability, growth and the quality of assigned book of business.
- Analyze quality and quantity of risks underwritten and prepares reports accordingly. Review segment profit/growth results and trends to recommend and implement action plans to produce profitable underwriting results.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent training, plus at least 7 years of progressively more responsible property/casualty underwriting and book of business management experience required.
- 3 - 5 years of Farm/Ag Underwriting experience required.
- Previous management experience preferred.
- CPCU/AU designation highly preferred. Ability to organize, lead and get work done through others; in depth knowledge of PC insurance, products and marketing techniques, insurance contracts, funding and rating.
- Advanced analytical skills to interpret business information drawn from multiple sources to make critical account decisions regarding quality of risk.
- Effective interpersonal skills need to create and expand partnerships with internal and external customers as well as to influence the way business partners think, feel, or behave.
- Ability to build, organize, lead and influence work through others.
- Adaptable to change and capable of effectively leading change.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment and lead others by example.
Benefits:
We recognize that talented people are attracted to companies that provide competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages and outstanding advancement opportunities. For this reason we offer a Comprehensive Benefits Plan that includes the following:
- 401K and Company paid pension plan
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Paid time-off
- Pay-for-Performance
- Discounts on automobile and homeowner's insurance
- Discount fitness memberships
- Flexible spending accounts
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care coverage
- Work/Life resources
- Credit Union membership
- Employee and Dependent life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Long-term care insurance
Overview:
We believe strongly that commercial success can be achieved in a manner consistent with principles and ideals that bind us together as one company, that set us apart from our competitors, and that in the end will allow us to say we have succeeded commercially by doing the right thing the right way.
We believe that the Company's success is inextricably linked to our employees' satisfaction and success: satisfaction that they work for an industry leader committed to improving safety, satisfaction that they work for a company that does the right thing, and satisfaction that the company will reward them for their contributions and provide opportunities for personal growth and success.
We believe our employees take pride in knowing that they help people live safer more secure lives everyday.
