Senior Underwriting Officer, Excess Casualty

Senior Underwriting Officer, Excess Casualty

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Base pay range: $96,000.00/yr - $/yr

The Senior Underwriting (UW) Officer, Excess Casualty, will report to the Executive Underwriting Officer of Major Accounts Casualty. Major Accounts works with large and complex commercial risks to deliver Primary and Excess Casualty programs to these highly valued customers. The Senior Underwriting (UW) Officer, Excess Casualty, will focus on our Majors Excess Casualty portfolio, servicing some of the largest companies in the U.S. and serve as the point of contact for the frontline underwriting teams for all questions, key decisions, or referrals.

The role will engage with various product sets in Umbrella, Excess, and Alternative Risk Transfer (ART).

• Provides expert technical underwriting assistance and formal referral approval for assigned lines of business (lead umbrella/excess) in Majors Excess Casualty. Interacts independently with field underwriters and directly with UW managers on all mandatory referral cases and voluntary consultation items.
• Ensures continuity and alignment between Primary and Excess Casualty placements.
• Supports Executive Underwriting Officer on transactions and serves as trusted advisor in the areas of exposure, coverage analysis, and key pricing/financial elements within their authority.
• Monitors frameworks for underwriting decisions (e.g., referrals, technical reviews) and recommends improvements, as needed.
• Evaluates portfolio performance regularly in Majors Excess Casualty, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify drivers of performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Drives UW technical excellence across Majors Excess Casualty, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify and resolve issues.
• Works with Underwriting Leaders to identify product and services enhancements, underwriter capability development opportunities (e.g., skills, tools), and elevates to Executive Underwriting Officer and Majors CUO.
• Models effective collaboration within/across teams, stakeholders and partners (e.g., UW Support, Claims, Actuarial, NA Product Teams).

• Expert-level knowledge of all aspects of coverage forms, exclusions, and exposure. Experience underwriting Umbrella, Excess, and ART, including pricing, structure, rating plans, loss forecasting, credit risk, market knowledge.
• Advanced knowledge of and experience operating within several different industry segments; insurance operations; claims, finance and actuarial concepts; regulatory environment; loss control/risk engineering; reinsurance; account management; product development; and industry trends.
• Must be a skilled collaborator who is willing to assess all sides of an issue, bring in others with expertise, and independently execute and advance the collaboration model.
• Other professional skills required include superior communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, listening); approachability; tact; coaching/development; analyzing and problem solving; relationship and service driven; clear solutions orientation and commitment to achieving segment operational and financial objectives; negotiation skills; and demonstrated ability to consistently and positively influence others both internally and externally (brokers/customers) as required.
• Bachelor's degree, 10 or more years of relevant experience that includes underwriting, claims, reinsurance, coaching/developing others, working with brokers/agents and currency with market trends and developments.

The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and…