Director of Underwriting - Liquor Legal Liability (Hybrid)

Director of Underwriting - Liquor Legal Liability (Hybrid)

At Utica National Insurance Group, 1,400 employees countrywide take our corporate promise to heart every day : To make people feel secure, appreciated, and respected.

Utica National Insurance Group is an "A" rated $1.6B award-winning, nationally recognized property & casualty insurance carrier.

Operating along the Eastern half of the United States, based in our Home Office in Central New York, with Regional Office locations including Boston, NYC, Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus, Richmond, and Chicago.

What you will do

The Director of Underwriting - Liquor Legal Liability will ensure that the underwriting team reporting to them is properly underwriting and pricing new and renewal business that is handled in the business segment.

Provides technical underwriting direction, including development of underwriting guidelines and rate recommendations, down to oversight of day-to-day execution of risk selection and pricing.

This includes profit improvement plans, loss ratio & loss frequency results monitoring, and corrective actions. Responsible for timely and accurate policy document issuance.

Achievement of segments business plan objectives, including underwriting profit, expense ratio, combined ratio, Get Rate, and loss ratio results.

The Director of Underwriting - Liquor Legal Liability will also be responsible for ensuring that underwriters are effectively pipelining business, coaching, and mentoring their supervisors to ensure a high performing underwriting team.

The Director will also assist in sales support with agent or affiliate visitation and relationship building for current and future sales success for the segment.

Assists Head of Specialty Lines with development of strategy for the segment on a 12 and 36 month basis.

• Manage the Underwriting Department for the Liquor Legal business segment operations.
• For risk selection and underwriting review functions, provide technical supervision and surveillance, including Quality Control spot-check duties.
• Carry out responsibilities as to all personnel, making certain that the tasks of hiring, firing, administering salaries, counseling, reviewing performance, and training are properly handled.
• Evaluate changes in rates, coverages, rules, regulations, statutes, or any other external factors having possible impact on the business segment’s experience and using these evaluations, take proper action locally and make recommendations to the Home Office wherever appropriate.
• Monitor loss experience and take appropriate underwriting action to improve this experience.
• Working with the Head of Specialty Lines Division Executive, evolve work flow procedures to ensure adequate service to the Company’s producers and to facilitate internal processing.
• Maintain effective liaison with the Head of Enterprise sales and RVPs; oversee the planning of agency visits by all underwriting personnel.
• Prepare bulletins and letters to producers transmitting notices of changes in manual pages, rates, underwriting policies, and procedures, etc.

What you need

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Commercial Lines Underwriting preferred.
• Minimum 3 years Commercial Lines Underwriting Leadership experience preferred.
• CPCU, IIA Underwriting series preferred.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of P&C Commercial lines of business.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Excellent analytical and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building abilities.

Location : New Hartford, NY

Hybrid

Salary Range : $150,000 - 225,000

The final salary to be paid and position within the internal salary range is reflective of the employee’s work experience, their geographic location, education, certification(s), scope and responsibilities in the role, and additional qualifications.

This position is bonus eligible.

We believe strongly that talented people are core to our success and are attracted to companies that provide competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages, career advancement, and challenging work opportunities.

We offer a Comprehensive Benefits Plan for full-time employees that include the following :

• Medical and Prescription Drug Benefit
• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
• 401(k) Profit Sharing and Investment Plan (Includes annual Company financial contribution and discretionary Profit Sharing contribution based upon annual company financial results)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition Assistance, Training, and Professional Designations
• Company-Paid Family Leave
• Adoption / Surrogacy Assistance Benefit
• Voluntary Benefits - Group Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, Legal, ID Theft Protection, Pet Insurance
• Student Loan Refinancing Services
• Care.com Membership with Back-up Care, Senior Solutions
• Business Travel Accident Insurance
• Matching Gifts program
• Employee Referral Award Program
• Wellness programs

Additional Information

This position is a full-time salaried, exempt (non-overtime eligible) position.

Utica National is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Apply now and find out what it’s like to be a part of an amazing team, thrive in an exciting environment, and work for a company you can be proud of.

Once you complete your application, you can monitor your status in the hiring process by logging into your profile. A representative from our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch regarding any change in your candidacy.

Please make an application promptly if you are a good match for this role due to high levels of interest.

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Remote working / work at home options are available for this role.