Description
DUAL North America is seeking an Associate Underwriter for the E&S Property division. At DUAL, Associate Underwriters play a key supportive role through the risk underwriting process and expansion of broker relationships.
In this role, you will assist with account quoting and binding, prepare and distribute various types of communications, and provide quality customer service through the underwriting life cycle.
Supporting a team of underwriters within the E&S Property division, you will support underwriters managing non-standard and complex risks. Your responsibilities include:
- Processing submissions by providing account triage for Underwriters
- Providing backup support for Underwriters when traveling in the market
- Gathering and compiling information required to quote and/or bind an account
- Generating, editing, and sending out a variety of correspondence on behalf of the Underwriters
- Demonstrating basic understanding of technical underwriting principles and risk underwriting characteristics
- Learning market dynamics, competitive landscape, and product differences
- Providing customer service and underwriting support to help achieve new and renewal premium goals
- Building relationships with producers with supervision from more senior underwriters
- Filling in for other team members to ensure business continuity during peak periods and/or when team members are unavailable
- Assisting Underwriters as requested
- Completing other related clerical and administrative duties as assigned
Underwriting Authority:
- Working towards Underwriting Authority, but does not have it yet
- Quote issuance as approved by senior underwriter
- Binder issuance as approved by senior underwriter
- Policy Issuance review
- Conducting inspection review and analysis resulting in appropriate issue identification, and processing post-inspection changes as necessary
Key requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in risk management, finance, business or a related field preferred
- 0–1 year underwriter or insurance experience
- Foundational knowledge of insurance principles
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Ability to follow policies and procedures
- Completing assigned tasks correctly, on time and able to learn quickly
- Self-motivated and demonstrating attention to detail
- Being able to work independently for extended periods
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as general business understanding
- Travel up to 10% with an underwriter to shadow and participate in interactions between Underwriters and brokers
What we offer:
- A career that you define
- Medical, dental, vision, a wide variety of wellbeing offers, competitive salary, unlimited PTO, 401k with company match, paid volunteer days and more