Senior Underwriter (Remote)

Our claims organization handles more than 400,000 claims a year, including catastrophe response after hurricanes and hail. Willow Creek Insurance is a property and casualty insurer writing policies in 30 states through independent agents. January renewals keep everyone busy for a few weeks.

About the role

We want an underwriter who can say no clearly and say yes with the right terms. Willow Creek Insurance is a regional property and casualty carrier. You will underwrite a book of about $15M in written premium. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Work with loss control on recommendations and follow-up.
• Refer accounts above your authority with a clear recommendation.
• Visit agencies to build relationships and explain our appetite.
• Track production, hit ratio and loss ratio for your book monthly.
• Follow underwriting guidelines and state filing requirements.
• Review submissions for risk quality, completeness and appetite fit.
• Price accounts using rating tools in Guidewire PolicyCenter and underwriting judgment.
• Re-underwrite renewals for loss trends, exposure changes and rate adequacy.

Minimum qualifications

• 6+ years of commercial lines underwriting experience.
• Strong judgment on risk selection and pricing.
• Familiar with Guidewire, Duck Creek or a similar policy system.
• Working knowledge of commercial property, liability and auto coverage forms.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, risk management or a related field.

Nice to have

• Excel modeling for pricing.
• Experience at a regional or mutual carrier.

What you get

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

Willow Creek Insurance is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Willow Creek Insurance.