Assistant Underwriter- Property and Casualty

Assistant Underwriter
- Property and Casualty

Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America

At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture,
you belong here.

Lockton is a global professional services firm with 6,500 Associates who advise clients on protecting their people, property and reputations. Lockton has grown to become the world's largest privately held, independent insurance broker by helping clients achieve their business objectives. To see the latest insights from Lockton's experts, check Lockton Market Update .

A few of the reasons Associates love working at Lockton include:

• Opportunities for growth and advancement, including paid training and professional development
• 12-week paid parental leave
• A huge emphasis on community involvement
• Frequent athletic and wellness events
• Incredibly generous rewards; US Associates receive a Rolex for their 10 year anniversary!

Lockton Affinity, a division of Lockton Companies located in Overland Park, Kansas, is currently hiring for a person to join the underwriting team as an Assistant Underwriter. Our underwriting team serves as an insurance industry advocate with a focus on improving the customer experience by understanding their risk and properly insuring their exposures. This position will be responsible for qualifying individual risks in accordance with our underwriting guidelines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work within established new and renewal procedures in reviewing applications to determine risk eligibility and assign competitive pricing guidance for risk.
• Correspond with internal and external customers to collect and analyze insurance information that facilitates the risk assessment process and provides underwriting support in: quoting, binding, issuing, and endorsing policies.
• Ensure compliance of referral criteria outside of underwriting authority.
• Prepare referrals to carrier outside of internal authority by performing overall risk assessment and pricing of the risk.
• Document and communicate policy approvals or rejections to the underwriting team and internal/external customers in a timely manner.
• Review and process transactional items for individual risks.
• Perform other work-related duties and projects as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or other relevant study preferred.
• Comprehensive understanding and application of concepts, practices, and procedures related to insurance.
• Ability to work independently and exercise good judgement in accordance with regulatory and carrier requirements on moderately complex items.
• Solid aptitude for mathematical proficiency.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Organizational and time management skills to meet time sensitive deadlines.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by Associates within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted, as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of Associates assigned to this job.

Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone anequal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.

At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learns from, celebrates and thrives because of our breadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our…