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Senior Middle Markets Underwriter
Zurich Insurance Group
Houston, TX, United States
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Zurich is currently looking for a Senior Middle Markets Underwriter for our team in Houston or Dallas! We are open to having our new team member sit in either office location depending on preference. As a member of Zurich's Underwriting Team, you will enjoy the opportunity to fully apply and hone your underwriting and marketing skills. Specifically, you will underwrite and analyze new and renewal middle markets property and casualty accounts. In this role you will serve as a senior member of the team focused on package business including; Worker’s Compensation, GL and Auto, Umbrella and Property. This is a market facing position and you expected to visible in the marketplace 25% of the time. This is a four state territory including Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana; individual territory assignment would be a portion of this four state footprint. You will work within broad limits and authority on highly complex accounts.
Client Externally Focused - The job’s core deliverables rely on delivering service to external clients and/or customers. Typically involves building relationships and promoting the company.
Our Senior Middle Markets Underwriter is responsible for:
• Underwriting, analyzing and generating new and renewal property and casualty business
• Market facing and production within the Middle Markets Division
• Administering and monitoring underwriting rules and guidelines, insurance laws and regulations and rating manual rules
• Developing and maintaining agency and broker relationships in the state of Texas and surrounding areas
• Working within broad limits and authorities on highly complex assignments
Basic Qualifications:
• High School Diploma or Equivalent and 5 or more years of experience in commercial underwriting or market facing area
OR
• High School Diploma or equivalent and 10 or more years of experience in the claims or underwriting support area
OR
• Zurich approved Apprenticeship program including an Associate Degree and 3 or more years of experience in the Underwriting or Market Facing area
OR
• Zurich approved Apprenticeship program including an Associate Degree and 8 or more years of experience in the Claims or Underwriting Support area
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Experience working on time restraints for quotes on new and renewal business
• Experience working in a team environment
Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree
• In-depth knowledge of the South region marketplace
• Multi-line underwriting experience with an emphasis in core middle markets
• Ability to effectively assess risk
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong broker relationships in the South
• Superior skills in relationship building, active listening, needs analysis, and win-win negotiating
Possess knowledge of time restraints for quotes on new and renewal business
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong knowledge of underwriting philosophy, techniques, national/local filing regulations and guidelines
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and skills reflective of progression of positions of increasing responsibility
• PC and related software skills
• CPCU and ARM a plus
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Imagine working for a values-driven organization that has the ambition and desire to be the best global insurance provider in the world.
Zurich is that place where 55,000 employees across approximately 200 countries and territories are all focused on helping people and helping companies protect what is truly most important to them. We are a values-driven organization that takes pride in the work that we do every day and we have the ambition to be the best global insurer in the world.
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