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Underwriter, Private Client Practice
Burns & Wilcox
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Responsibilities
When retail agents and brokers have successful clients who require coverage for the unique, the unusual, or the unconventional, they come to the Private Client Practice at Burns & Wilcox. Our Underwriters have full underwriting authority to build and grow a profitable book of Private Client business across the US and Canada. Burns & Wilcox offers unparalleled resources and exposure for those looking to excel in the specialty insurance career. Interested? Join our team!
Job Duties:
• Build a growing book of profitable Private Client business
• Manage agency relationships and serve as lead client contact
• Provide a Best in Class customer services experience for our retail partners
• Execute on the national marketing strategy to increase new and renewal business
• Work within granted authority and program guidelines to underwrite submissions with a focus on creative solutions for complex insurance exposures
• Develop and submit underwriting referrals to company brokerage facilities and Burns & Wilcox management
• Monitor key metrics and implement actions to improve practice group results in new business hit ratios, renewal retention, premium and income growth, and loss ratio
• Lead, train, and develop Assistant and Associate Underwriters
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 3 years of Personal insurance experience required, excess & surplus experience preferred
• Previous experience with private client carriers and clients is beneficial
• Proven written, verbal and analytical skills and ability to craft unique solutions to complex problems
• Comfortable presenting to C-Level executives and clients
• Creative problem solving skills
• Demonstrated proficiency in customer service, sales and marketing
• Proven organization skills and ability with a strong attention to detail and work ethic
• Interest in continued education and professional development; enrollment in the CPRIA designation curriculum will be expected upon hiring
• Insurance license, CPCU, CIC or comparable designations are beneficial
Benefits:
• Competitive compensation
• Uncapped opportunity under sales incentive bonus plans
• Employer paid professional development, including continuing insurance education courses, designations, certifications and licenses
• Access to Kaufman Institute, H.W. Kaufman Group’s corporate university
• Health and welfare benefits including medical, vision and dental
• 401K with employer match
• Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
About Our Company
Burns & Wilcox, the flagship organization of H.W. Kaufman Group, is North America’s leading wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager. Burns & Wilcox offers wide ranging and comprehensive solutions to serve retail insurance brokers and agents of all sizes, from the large houses to the more than 30,000 independent brokers and agents worldwide. Fueled by its freedom from Wall Street and private equity, Burns & Wilcox is a privately owned company whose standards of service, depth of market relationships and outstanding talent are unsurpassed in the specialty insurance sector.