The Renewal Underwriter is a key member of the Underwriting team that assists Underwriters with assigned renewals. The Renewal Underwriter will compile all the necessary renewal information together in a cohesive and organized manner, sets up and maintains underwriting files, prepares documentation, and supports Underwriters by managing the process, tracking due dates and open items.    In addition, this role identifies renewals that have had a material change from the prior year. The role will verify endorsements for rating and underwriting within their authority, sets policies up for rating and issuance, and prescreens renewal submissions and follows up for missing information.  The Renewal Underwriter will manage assigned renewals, solicit underwriting information, review and analyze all underwriting information, and document analysis.  In addition, rating will be completed for manually rated policies, system rating will be reviewed for accuracy, rate changes calculated and documented, and proposals will be prepared.    Key functions include but are not limited to: - Manage renewal process by reviewing expirations, identifying renewals requiring early underwriting action, solicit and analyze renewal information received. - Maintain a diary/suspense system to follow up on open items - Prepare cancellation and nonrenewal notices as needed - Manage renewals and endorsements within authority, working directly with wholesale brokers. - Promptly refer renewals to Assistant Vice President or higher when outside authority or underwriting concerns - Review rating worksheets for accuracy and document rate change per line of business and enter submissions in Berkley Alliance Managers’ proprietary systems. - Manage and update renewal logs - Special underwriting projects as needed - Collaborate with other business units and co-workers to support the division’s strategies and objectives. This is a remote opportunity that may be located anywhere in the United States.

The Territory Sales Manager is responsible for developing our Business Insurance portfolio, servicing and growing assigned territory through an outside sales approach that consists of an assignment of targeted agencies. Achieving success will include: optimizing the growth potential, exceeding or meeting year over year growth and profit objectives.    Key functions will include but not limited to:   - Sales Pipeline Development – assist with prequalifying submissions, identifying growth opportunities, portfolio transfers and incentive opportunities. - Accountable for building and maintaining effective relationships with agencies/brokers within assigned territory. - In collaboration with the Distribution Leader, completes strategic marketing plans for territory to identify opportunities and potential challenges from which strategies and tactics are developed, including:  - - Creating and development of Quarterly Agency Reviews - Managing on-going agency scorecards and producer reports - Facilitating agency council meetings in territory             Agency Management:   - Profit sharing updates throughout the year, with focus on next level achievement - Progress reports to plan and other incentives, monitor joint business plan - Develop agency and underwriter relationships - Schedule virtual and in-person visits with the appropriate stakeholders - Leveraging who we are, what we do to gain elite partnership with agency and perpetuate agency to top 5 of their carrier line up.   Marketing: - Communication of competitive classes to target - Distribute on-going marketing messages and initiatives - Facilitate and develop leads to agents/producers - Plan and attend Industry trade shows and company road shows   Administrative: - Agency system access and set up, maintenance with users, etc. - Keeping agency profiles up to date - Producer licensing - New appointment process - Code management - Vetting and resolution of Service, Claims and Automation issues, escalating if/when needed   Agency Training and Education: - Webinars on various topics, in conjunction with marketing/underwriting - Agency staff training, as needed   Internal partnering with Underwriting or other WRB companies: - Provide competitor/market intel for product development - Collaborate with Sales Peers across the Berkley family of companies

- Provide analysis and insight to support strategic business decisions - Lead analytic projects by defining requirements, success criteria, project management and engaging stakeholders - Explore, understand and transform structured data sets so they can be used to deliver business value (querying SQL databases and converting data into meaningful information) - Develop reports and dashboards that can be leveraged by companies across the segment - Engage with internal clients to define project goals, propose solutions and success criteria - Develop presentations to communicate findings and recommendations to senior management - Data visualization: use Power BI to create dashboards and reports - Conduct analysis of key business drivers, trends and performance indicators to provide value-added inputs

The Field Adjuster will be responsible for the investigation, evaluation and adjustment of claims for a dedicated program handling municipal property and casualty claims.   Key functions include but are not limited to the following:   - Interview insureds, injured parties, witnesses and others as appropriate. - Inspect property damage. - Review factual information to prepare damage estimates. - Investigate assigned losses to determine coverage. - Evaluate loss exposure for various property losses. - Evaluate and negotiate settlements based upon coverage document language. - Determine scope of loss and cost of repairs. - Make recommendations regarding resolution of claims. - Make recommendations regarding litigation. - Prepare reports for Client Company. - Enter reports/file activity into electronic claim processing system. - Accountable for results, customer service, and achieving departmental and unit objectives.

The ideal candidate is someone who is a lifelong learner, enjoys trying to find defects and opportunities for improvements and isn’t afraid to take the challenge to try to “break” solutions. What you’ll be learning and doing: - Convert manual test cases to automated tests using Cypress - Participate in refinement and planning meetings to understand upcoming changes and impacts they may have on existing test cases - Develop new test cases based on feature development - Follow existing documented processes and look for more efficient ways to accomplish desired outcomes - Ability to document and explain steps to reproduce any defect found - Report and escalate blockers - Participate in test case peer reviews Details you want to know:   The ideal candidate is interested in a career in quality and automation, will be available part-time during the school year during office hours Monday – Friday (approximately 10-20 hours/week and full time during the summer (up to 35 hours per week).

The Associate Loss Control Representative will assist in the acquisition and retention of profitable business by identifying and evaluating hazards and controls for new and existing accounts reduce and control potential losses.    Key functions will include but not be limited to: - Conducts surveys and services accounts by identifying and evaluating hazards and controls pertaining to all lines of coverage. - Services existing accounts according to mutually agreed upon plans developed for each account. - Submits recommendations to improve conditions which will mitigate or control the hazards identified and follows-up on recommendations. - Assists accounts on potential exposures and promotes the value of Loss Control and sound safety program in the acquisition and retention of profitable business. - Appraises properties to determine replacement costs for fire insurance coverage. - Monitors own workload to ensure timely service and meet deadlines. - Participates in agency visits and staff meetings as needed. - Provides technical assistance to the claim department on losses. - Provides loss control services for all departments and assists other departments in their efforts to write and retain profitable business. - Participates in training and self-development. - Meets or exceeds Department Standards for production, quality and timeliness of survey work. - Keeps abreast of industry news and developments. This role will be based in our Westbrook ME office location.  We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote when it makes sense to do so.

The Senior Loss Control Representative will assist in the acquisition and retention of profitable business by identifying and evaluating hazards and controls for new and existing accounts reduce and control potential losses.    Key functions will include but not be limited to:   Loss Control Representative I & II   - Conducts surveys and services accounts by identifying and evaluating hazards and controls pertaining to all lines of coverage. - Services existing accounts according to mutually agreed upon plans developed for each account. - Submits recommendations to improve conditions which will mitigate or control the hazards identified and follows-up on recommendations. - Assists accounts on potential exposures and promotes the value of Loss Control and sound safety program in the acquisition and retention of profitable business. - Appraises properties to determine replacement costs for fire insurance coverage. - Monitors own workload to ensure timely service and meet deadlines. - Participates in agency visits and staff meetings as needed. - Provides technical assistance to the claim department on losses. - Provides loss control services for all departments and assists other departments in their efforts to write and retain profitable business. - Coordinates the collection and dissemination of material related to specialized technical areas assigned. - Participates in training and self-development and may mentor/train others within the department. - Meets or exceeds Department Standards for production, quality and timeliness of survey work. - Keeps abreast of industry news and developments.   Senior Loss Control Representative I & II– in addition to the above duties the Senior Loss Control Representative: - Conducts surveys on larger and/or more complex accounts than LC Representatives. - Exhibits proficiency in all types of surveys for all lines and programs. This role will be based in our Rocky Hill CT office location.  We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote when it makes sense to do so.

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. - Maintain underwriting quality score of 90% or greater. Document underwriting file to support acceptability and pricing in accordance with company guidelines. - Achieve customer service standards, including established objectives for: - New business quote turnaround - Renewal quotes - Endorsement, cancellation, audits and other transactions - Policy issuance - Provide detailed issuance instructions to ensure policy is delivered consistent with quoted terms and conditions and in accordance with established guidelines relative to policy construction. - Review mid-term endorsement requests for acceptability and provide instructions for processing. - Evaluate premium audit referrals to determine class acceptability and/or appropriateness of current exposure base. Adjust current term with acceptable changes to ensure company gets timely payment of adequate premium. - Order and review inspections to confirm accounts written are consistent with preliminary underwriting information and takes action when the inspection reveals unacceptable risk characteristics. - Assist with training, mentoring and coaching of less experienced team members.  - Determine if facultative reinsurance is needed and if so, factor reinsurance cost in gross pricing, complete cession procedures; documentation file, and follow established workflow procedure to ensure proper reporting / accounting. - Utilize various underwriting tools to: - Determine acceptable risk characteristics - Determine accurate exposure classifications - Set adequate property limits to accomplish appropriate insurance to value - Rate and quote business to agents - Support other underwriters as assigned when the other underwriter is traveling or out on vacation / sick time.  

The Data Analyst will Develop and implement database, data warehouse and business intelligence solutions including the requisite ETL procedures and functions leveraging the Microsoft analytics and business intelligence framework and toolsets; design and develop reports; implement multi-department business solutions within the property and casualty insurance environment; Ensure stability, integrity, and efficient collection of data within on-line systems as well as the data warehouse; ensure on-time data availability for business processing.   Key Functions include but not limited to: - Understand business requirements, and perform data analysis, estimation, database programming, testing and implementation. - Ensure smooth and reliable operation of data systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes - Create and maintain reports using multiple Microsoft technologies - Develop and implement databases required for business intelligence applications - Gather and document business data requirements into data models and database designs - Work with project leads in analyzing system requirements and specifications and translating those requirements into database designs - Design complex databases, database synonyms, views, cube queries, & reports - Apply data design standards and guidelines - Create and maintain documentation and provide in-house education for end-user systems, as needed. - Provide support and point of contact for department clients requesting routine information, data summaries and or reports - Perform production and daily operations support for the systems - Develop and facilitate the resolution of data-related project issues - Manage data redundancy, identify performance issues and optimize solutions as needed - Analyze existing workflow for efficiency; recommend and implement needed changes.  

The Compliance & Reporting Analyst will assist as needed with policy and unit statistical reporting requirements, agency management requests, contract support, and additional related responsibilities to ensure compliance of state and regulatory requirements.   This role is located in Highpoint, North Carolina.   Key Functions include but not limited to:   Policy Data Reporting Processes:  Within a certain period after the issuance of a policy, carrier is required to report certain proof of coverage and other policy-related information to the applicable state insurance departments and/or rate bureaus: - Prepare and inspect weekly files for submission to the various reporting bureaus. - Address pre-submission technical errors & post-submission errors. - Review and respond to post-submission Bureau notices of individual policy-related issues. - Review incoming notices, and research issues. - Work with appropriate department to resolve issue (Underwriting, IT, etc.) and facilitate corrections. - Communicate with Bureaus to resolve issue - Company Certifications to submit data: - Review bureau file data layout & requirements, and communicate requirements to IT departments - Assist IT department in the creation of test files for submission to the bureau - Review errors and work with IT to correct such errors. Unit Statistical Data Reporting Processes: Carrier is required to report certain policy and claims related information on an annual basis to the applicable state insurance departments and/or rate bureaus: - Back-up team in preparing and inspect monthly files for submission to the various reporting bureaus - Address pre-submission and post-submission technical errors    Participate in special Projects: - Analysis of reporting errors to identify potential improvements. - Assist with various data reporting requirements and filing various data reports with state insurance departments and rating bureaus. - Data filing Process improvements

The Operations Assistant will support all phases of the premium audit process and provide operational support to the Underwriting team.  In additional, this position will provide administrative support to all BTU locations as needed.   Key functions include but are not limited to:   Premium Audit/Underwriting Operational Support: - Ensure the accurate and timely rating, booking and issuance of premium audits and related transactions. - Communicates as needed with agents to obtain information needed to complete the premium audit transaction. - Answers agent questions, resolves agent problems on topics such as premium audit status and billing. - Daily communication with Operations and Underwriting staff. - Supports other aspects of the premium audit process, such as ordering premium audits. - Support Claim and Risk Control as directed. Administrative Support: - Responsible for general office administrative support, including ordering office supplies, managing incoming and outgoing mail, reception, responding to telephone and email inquiries from internal and external customers. - Manage the Customer Account set up and clearance process. - Use the workflow management system to create work items for new business, renewals, endorsements and cancellations. - Support the agency appointment set up and licensing process. - Order underwriting reports, including MVRs and Catastrophe Exposure reports. - Coordinate company events and assist with arrangements for company visitors.

As an Operations Coordinator, your primary objective is to partner and support each function of the business (Underwriting, Claims, Accounting, IT, Actuarial, Senior Leadership, etc.) to drive operational change and increase overall efficiency.   We'll count on you to: - Determine operational objectives by studying business functions – meet routinely across functions to gather information on business processes and design processes and implement procedures. - Propose, test, and implement system improvements to improve process efficiencies and user experience. - Reporting of validated downstream underwriting, claim, and financial data. - Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions. - Coordinate requirements; establishing contacts; developing schedules and assignments; coordinating mailing lists for conferences and marketing communications. - Review broker management data (license requirements, contact information, etc.) to ensure current records; communicate with brokers to receive any outstanding, updated information. - Liaise with internal and external compliance resources to research statutes, regulations, and best practices to be implemented in underwriting decisions. - Other projects as assigned.  

The Vice President, Claims is responsible for the overall management and direction of the claims department.  Equally as important, participation on the Executive Team, that establishes the strategic direction for the company and ensures the overall profitability and success of the company in the human services market   Member of Executive Team - Proactive participation on Executive Team which establishes and executes the strategic direction of the company - Work closely with the CEO to discuss, evaluate, and implement strategic directions for the claims operation that supports the overall direction of the company - Establish solid relationships with other members of the Executive Team in order to improve team performance - Be able to clearly communicate strategic direction to both internal resources and outside partners and insureds Overall Management of Claims Operation - Manage a team of claims professionals by establishing clear performance metrics - Implement strong policies and procedures designed to produce the desired results - Ensure the continual professional development of claims professionals on the team by coordinating both internal and external training and development opportunities - Develop and implement claim best practices for proper and consistent claim performance, compliance and achievement of business goals - Establish clear reserving standards and ensure that those standards are continually met - Identify issues and trends in the portfolio; take appropriate and/or corrective action where necessary; communicate trends to underwriters, insureds and brokers - Identify claims with significant exposure and take a more active role coordinating a strategy for an appropriate resolution - Coordinate with underwriting on current and proposed policy language and new markets to enter - Cultivate a departmental culture that excels in communication and collaboration - Drives the development, implementation and continuous planning, organizing and leading of all claim programs, metrics, processes, results and initiatives Develop Berkley Human Services into a “Thought Leader” within the human services marketplace - Proactively establish relationships with brokers and insureds in order to maximize the competitive advantage derived from the claim’s operation. - Develop and manage the reputation of BHS’s claims handling in the market - Attend industry conventions and events and become a sought out thought leader on developing issues - Attend marketing, account renewal, and reinsurance meetings as appropriate in order to communicate our claims handling philosophy and leading position in this area - Instill the above philosophies into all claim’s professionals at the company - Work closely with company’s loss control function to provide value-added services to our insureds that reduce our exposure to loss Liaison to both internal and external partners of the company - Liaison with parent company, WR Berkley, on significant individual claims and trends identified in the overall portfolio - Communicate portfolio trends and potential solutions to underwriting and actuarial areas - Participate on quarterly performance calls with parent company in anticipation of earnings releases May perform other functions as assigned.     *This role is physically located in Minneapolis, MN.  Relocation assistance is available.

The Director, DevOps provides leadership to help guide the enterprise through its public cloud transformation initiatives, including CICD pipeline creation and management, Kubernetes administration, establishing robust security practices, and migrating on-premises applications, tools, and capabilities.  They bring knowledge of single, hybrid, and multi-cloud operations, cost modeling, scalability, security, sandboxing, containerization, elastic computing, and high-availability solutions to assist in designing, building, and implementing the next generation of systems here at WRBC.   This role collaborates with internal business and technical stakeholders to partner on migration activities and new development within the public cloud environment.  They are responsible for assessing application and organization maturity and readiness for working within the public cloud and working with teams to close technical and personnel gaps.  The Director, DevOps establishes technical standards and patterns, creates tools and automated workflow capabilities, and builds cloud ecosystems that foster a high-degree of innovation and enablement.   This person will also be responsible for the day-to-day leadership and management of a DevOps Engineering team, including recruiting, training, mentoring, and performance management.   Technical Strategy - Own and drive overall 1-3-year enterprise cloud strategy, including technology investment and lifecycle goals. - Collaborate with key stakeholders, including Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Information Security teams to create and validate the strategy. - Maintain contact with vendors, industry peers, and professional associations to keep informed of existing and emerging industry trends, standards, and technologies.   Leadership - Partner with business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about cloud technology and their readiness to embrace it. - Provide day-to-day leadership and management of the Cloud Services DevOps Engineering team and position it to become an internal resource, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy in the cloud. - Build and foster a healthy team culture; one that emphasizes collaboration and innovation. - Recruit for and develop the skills and competencies of the team; including building the technical and behavioral competencies needed to support our overall technology strategy; establish a robust cloud training program. - Builds and maintains strong relationships across the business and technical organizations across WRBC. - Partner with WRBC business leaders and organizational stakeholders to make sound investment decisions regarding cloud technology and their readiness to adopt it. - Be visible and inspire others to engage with and follow WRBC’s cloud and technical strategies.   Patterns and Standards Development - Identify pattern and standard gaps for cloud development and/or administrative services and determine potential options to address. - Research, develop, and drive the adoption of cloud-based design patterns and standards, including high availability, load balancing, auto-scaling, and disaster recovery. - Perform cloud-based technology and tool evaluations, including proof-of-concept and feasibility analysis.   Solutions Development - Facilitate innovation by leading cloud-based projects for the enterprise; including migrations from on-premises, CICD pipelines, rehydration practices, managing containers, cloud security, and elastic computing. - Work with development teams on building technical solutions that leverage established patterns for the cloud and follow architecture strategies and guidelines. - Establish cost containment practices that provide robust controls and effectively balance developer productivity with managing consumption-based cost challenges. - Evolve cloud solutions to a self-service deployment model. - Rationalize technology and tool recommendations. - Integrate solutions into the larger technical ecosystem to maximize impact and value.   Community of Practice - Contribute to the internal cloud and architecture communities by participating in online forums, developing standards and patterns, and documenting solutions designs, which are shared across the community. - Develop strong relationships with other business and technical teams and mentor less experienced developers and/or engineers in the development of their cloud skills.

Berkley North Pacific is rooted in the Pacific Northwest offering personalized commercial insurance solutions through collaborative efforts for ultimate customer experience. We do this by empowering our people and being 100% customer obsessed. Additionally, we offer the reassurance to our customers that their insurance investment is sound, as we are backed by the resources of a Fortune 500 company, W. R. Berkley Corporation. Come join our BNP family and explore what our community has to offer!   Job Summary Directly impacts the company’s growth and profitability goals within an assigned territory and book of business.  Underwrites commercial property and casualty accounts by determining risk acceptability and pricing in accordance with established underwriting guidelines and within established authority level.  Maintains autonomy in work and management of book of business in a fast-paced environment. Serves as the point of contact for assigned agencies and is responsible for the agency relationship.    BNP offers a hybrid work location model that is designed to support flexibility.   Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities - Manages a book of business with autonomy to make decisions within authority level consistently achieving company strategies and goals. - Assesses new Agribusiness insurance risks and determines accurate classification of business, policy contract forms and pricing of risk. Accepts and prices risk in accordance with established underwriting guidelines and within authority level. - Reviews renewal accounts for acceptability by examining business operations, classification, contract forms and loss activity. Determines price in accordance with established underwriting guidelines and within authority level.  Reviews endorsement requests and takes appropriate action.  - Maintains accurate underwriting documentation and information to meet quality review standards. - Develops, expands and enhances agency relationships to promote profitability and growth of new business and the retention of existing business. Travel within or to assigned territory to meet with agents to enhance business relationships. - Leads or participates in agency training sessions. - Leverages agent relationships to drive new business opportunities via existing relationships as well as where there is no existing relationship; continually prospects for new opportunities through pipeline development. - Achieves or surpasses agency visibility goals to include both in person and virtual sales calls. - Acts as a business partner to agents. Uses strong negotiation skills and deep product knowledge to meet the needs of the customer. - Collaborates with claims, risk management and other underwriting team members as needed to ensure prompt and professional underwriting service is provided. - Participates in, and may lead, underwriting and agency meetings. - Identifies, innovates, and suggests new procedures, and opportunities to streamline department processes and workflows. - Cultivates strong customer service skills including consistency, timeliness, and product knowledge.

In your role as an Azure Data Engineer, you will be responsible for expanding and optimizing data and pipeline architectures, and for optimizing data collection and flow across functional teams. Your responsibilities include assisting software developers, database architects, data analysts, and data scientists with data initiatives and ensuring a consistent data delivery architecture is put in place throughout ongoing projects.   - Design and implement data pipelines using Azure technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure SQL Database - Migrate on-premises data stores to Azure cloud platforms - Implement data transformations using Azure Databricks - Collaborate with data scientists to design and implement machine learning models using Azure Machine Learning - Optimize data pipelines for performance and scalability - Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines within Azure Data Factory - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions - Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software. - Work with technical resources to ensure accurate translation of specifications into workable application code. Work with outside vendors and sister companies on coordinating data capture.

- Conduct financial and MVR (motor vehicle record) analysis - Participate in marketing and broker projects - Conduct underwriting background and data collection through database searches, aerial photographs, etc… - Research Projects - Organize BPM (business process management) electronic files - Assist Underwriters and Underwriting Assistants as needed   Education Requirement - Enrolled in a 4-year university

Responsible for producing high quality financial analysis and reporting to assist the business with informed decision making and support our internal and external customers.   - Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and year end close process. - Analyze and compare monthly and quarterly results, metrics and key performance indicators against plan and other benchmarks. - Perform month-end close activities and related entries and reconciliations within established deadlines. - Conducts insightful variance analysis between actual results and budget/forecasts as part of monthly financial reporting package. - Prepares and coordinates with appropriate team members on monthly senior management reporting package. - Develop and maintain financial models, trend and scenario analysis to support business with financial and strategic initiatives. - Perform ROI analysis and maintain scorecard of all Capital Projects and provide status of projects and spend on monthly basis. - Identify process improvement opportunities to streamline workflow enabling increased focus on analytics. - Perform ad-hoc financial analysis as needed to support our business partners.

This role will focus on developing and implementing business development and marketing strategies for the unit’s book of business, managing to produce and retain key accounts, and maintaining an acceptable profit by keeping abreast of market trends.  In addition, this role will provide support to the underwriting audit process.    Core Responsibilities: - Responsible for the overall management, business development, analysis and monitoring of the unit’s book of business. - Production and underwriting of new and renewal accounts. - Development and management of business and broker/agent relationships. - Ensure compliance with underwriting documentation rules and guidelines. - Maintains an acceptable underwriting profit. - Adherence to Berkley E&S Solutions Group’s underwriting guidelines and referral compliance. - Participates in all internal company training and continuing education. - Remains current on new product opportunities as it pertains to market trends and the unit’s appetite and risk. - Stays abreast and knowledgeable on market trends in terms of forms, coverage and appetite to maintain competitiveness. - Leverage skills and expertise outside of desk responsibilities, including participation in marketing/public speaking events. Additional Responsibilities include: - Provide support to the underwriting audit process. - Support the drafting of policy language and coordinate with Claims and Legal to finalize wording. - Assist with special projects and tasks, as directed by the President.

The President is responsible for the successful management of virtually all aspects of the specific “stand alone” Operating Unit.  S/he provides leadership and direction to the entire team including dedicated underwriting, claims, actuarial, marketing, technology and finance and is expected to develop and execute strategies that deliver high risk-adjusted financial returns and growth in favorable situations while managing risk.  S/he understands, is passionate about and serves as role model for the core cultural norms of W. R. Berkley Corporation including dedication to integrity, honesty and the highest level of business ethics.  Key functions include, but are not limited to: - Drive shareholder value through appropriate risk-adjusted returns. - Leverage the successful attributes of the Berkley Company while developing new strategies to further the Company’s growth and profitability. - Assess the organizational structure and hiring requirements to align with both the current and future needs of the business. - Report regularly to the EVP and more formally on a quarterly basis to parent company CEO and President, Chief Financial Officer, and its Chief Actuary. - Set and drive strategic and operational objectives towards achievable short-term successes while making progress towards long-term goals. - Continually monitor objectives for financial returns, risk management, marketing and competitive advantages. - Position the Company within the market as preferred partner. - Inspire the team to be creative when leveraging their knowledge of the business and engage in exploring and experimenting with the opportunities for the business in the future. - Drive underwriting excellence through a high level of engagement in the business, data and analytics, and regular communication throughout the Company. - Ensure the achievement of continued profitability, growth and operational efficiencies through managing the business, underwriting profitability, claims and expenses. - Create a culture consistent within the greater organization for having teams that excel in their industry knowledge, take pride in their ownership of the business and strive for delivering value to their stakeholders.