Senior Marine Underwriter; Commercial Marine Liability

Senior Marine Underwriter (Commercial Marine Liability)

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80 Intermediaries is seeking a Senior Marine Underwriter with a strong background in Commercial Marine Liability. The role partners with agents and brokers to provide tailored coverage for businesses in marine liabilities, including shipyards, ship repairers, terminal operators, marine contractors, charterers, and related operations. You will manage an assigned underwriting territory to achieve profitable growth, including underwriting new business, renewals, endorsements and other transactions.

Identify new business opportunities and manage agency relationships.

• Develop relationships and educate agents within agency plant to maximize opportunities and achieve profitable growth
• Initiate outbound calls to agencies to identify sales opportunities and collect agent intelligence
• Achieve new business premium, renewal premium retention and rate change objectives
• Within company guidelines and granted underwriting authority, evaluate new and renewal account information to determine risk acceptability, terms/conditions to be quoted, and pricing
• Make sound risk and pricing decisions that achieve profitable loss ratios
• Document underwriting file to support acceptability and pricing in accordance with company guidelines
• Provide detailed issuance instructions to ensure policy is delivered consistent with quoted terms and conditions
• Review mid-term endorsement requests for acceptability and provide instructions for processing
• Order and review inspections to confirm accounts written are consistent with preliminary underwriting information and take action when inspections reveal unacceptable risk characteristics
• Determine if facultative reinsurance is needed and, if so, factor reinsurance cost in gross pricing, complete cession procedures; documentation file, and follow established workflow to ensure proper reporting/accounting

• 5+ years of commercial marine liability underwriting experience
• Proficiency with technical underwriting, including exposure identification, coverage evaluation, risk/rate relationships, and file documentation
• Demonstrated success in commercial lines property casualty insurance
• Basic proficiency with Windows programs (Word, Excel, E‑mail)
• Experience working with independent agents is preferred
• Advanced professional insurance coursework (CPCU, ASLI, AU) or completion of other insurance-related classes is preferred

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80 Marine is a specialty insurance program company with 30+ years of in-house underwriting experience. We provide brokers with comprehensive packaged solutions, top-quality coverage, and service. We are aligned with leading carriers and have significant underwriting experience in our segments. One
80 Intermediaries is a privately held firm with offices throughout the US and Canada, offering property and casualty, life, travel/accident and health insurance services.