Senior Underwriter

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom AIG Full time

Who we are

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. Building on 100 years of experience, today AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services to customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets, manage risks and provide for retirement security.

Get to know the business

For more than 50 years, Lex-London has been providing innovative insurance coverage and services to companies ranging from Fortune 100 leaders, to smaller but complex risks. As a leading surplus lines insurer, we use our unique flexibility in rate and form to benefit both traditional and the most challenging risks.

AIG Lex London are a leading provider of excess casualty products in the surplus lines market. Lex-London underwriters combine deep expertise with a broad appetite for risk and are empowered to deliver for our clients and brokers. Clients also benefit from our extensive industry knowledge, specialised risk management and engineering services, and dedicated claims handling services.

Your future team:
AIG’s underwriters develop insurance solutions that address the exposures of companies and individuals, and embody AIG’s tradition of innovation, bringing to market groundbreaking insurance solutions for our changing world. AIG’s underwriters help to find insurance solutions for risks from a range of areas including life insurance, aviation, financial lines, casualty, environmental, catastrophic events, high net worth individuals, and boardroom liabilities.

Your contribution at AIG:
What we are looking for
- Significant experience of excess casualty insurance leadership.
- Knowledge of market segmentation, portfolio management, acquisition and distribution
- Established strong relationships with customers and intermediaries
- Demonstrated business savvy, analytical and quantitative skills
- Expert technical underwriting background
- Strong problem solving and conflict resolution experience
- Analytical and quantitative skills.
- Demonstrated sales, marketing, and relationship building experience.
- Ability to work independently.
- Team player a must.
- Knowledge of market segmentation, portfolio management, acquisition, and distribution.
- Highly motivated and results-oriented.
- Ability to work in dynamic, rapidly changing environment, adapting to changing requirements and collaborating with a wide range of colleagues to quickly deliver solutions.
- Willingness to be flexible, learn on the job, and maintain a can-do attitude
- Comfort with analytical tools and technology

Senior Underwriter Responsibilities:
As a Senior Underwriting Specialist you will be focused on maintaining and developing a profitable book of Excess Casualty business. This position will be responsible for analyzing and evaluating risks, recommending, or deciding to accept, reject, or modify risks and coverage conditions within limits of delegated authority and in accordance with established underwriting guidelines to achieve underwriting profitability objectives. These duties and responsibilities will include:

- Focus on US Casualty business underwritten from the London Market.
- This level underwriter typically performs highly technical complex assignments within area of expertise.
- Provides technical direction to management, less senior specialists, producers, and claims adjusting personnel.
- Communicate Excess Casualty risk appetite and NA Casualty Value Proposition to brokers.
- Accepts, declines, or modifies new and renewal submissions submitted by brokers. Identifies exposures and analysis required to underwrite an account, as well as the coverage policies, and determines the exposures to loss assumed and restricted by the insuring agreements and the exclusions. Manages a book of business and may participate in the formulation of the budget relative to regional budget/goals. Establishes new business production goals and submission flow relative to the book of business.
- Collaborate with Distribution, Territory Managers, and other line(s) of business underwriters to target desirable accounts and cross selling opportunities from brokers while soliciting customer/producer input for improving and enhancing service.
- Develops and implements pricing and negotiation strategy, terms & conditions, and deal structures with brokers and clients while maintaining the quality of the risk and NA Casualty strategy.
- May review, evaluate and recommend modifications to underwriting guidelines.
- Participate in special underwriting projects as needed.
- Develop strong, long-term relationships with brokers and clients to profitably grow a book of business.
- Provide superior customer service to brokers and clients.
- May draft manuscript endorsements that are particular to an underwriting exposure(s) for appro

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