The VP of Small Commercial and Select Accounts will work closely with the Underwriting function to drive profitable growth for the Small Commercial/Select Account segment.  Individual will team with the Underwriting group to actively drive distribution across our nationwide footprint through engagement with distribution partners and alignment with Berkley affiliated companies. The VP of Small Commercial and Select Accounts will be a Member of the Executive Leadership Team reporting to the CUO, with dotted-line reporting to the President. - Overall responsibility for the underwriting function and profitable growth of the Small Commercial/Select Account segment - Provides subject matter expertise to the development of relevant automation technology, product design, underwriting and operations - Develops and executes Small Commercial/Select Account product strategy, including the design of underwriting guidelines around class, size, minimum premium, hazard grade, rates, etc. - Responsible for the development and implementation of the Small Commercial/Select Account distribution strategy, including identification of strategic opportunities/ partnerships on a countrywide basis (geographies, new appointments, affiliated company alignment, aggregators and top 100 national retail agents) - Customize alignment and approach with each strategic partner through the implementation of creative solutions in process/structure/compensation to assure agile and appropriate response to each customer’s needs - Creation of a small commercial “ease of doing business” model (quick turnaround, service standards, etc.) - Work with platform vendor to design, build  and launch a “technology solution” to bring Agency Desktop Quoting to each key small commercial player - Develop value proposition and ensure successful marketing of Small Commercial/Select Account product on a countrywide basis - Ensure execution of the strategic plan through alignment with all underwriting managers on segmentation, distribution and product strategies. - Accountable for the creation, monitoring and management of key underwriting metrics including submission activity, call activity, relationship mapping, production, rate change, rate application, loss ratios, expenses and quality - Identifies issues/impediments to achieving business results and implements corrective measures - Responsible for the strategic allocation of resources, within staffing model, that will drive desired business results - Accountable for staff selection, training, retention and development for the Small Commercial/Select Account segment - Models behavior that encourages collaboration, teamwork and open communication

The role of Executive Underwriter is to provide technical assistance in the Home Office Underwriting Department on special projects, product development, form and endorsement development, underwriting audits, corporate initiatives, training and development and product specific research while also acting as a referral authority, mentor and trainer to the underwriting team.    Responsibilities: - Handle account referrals outside of individual underwriter authority - Make sound risk and pricing decisions to drive profitable growth and achieve business objectives - Assist the management team with training, mentoring  and coaching of new associates and less experienced team members - Assist the management team in the overall development and communication of underwriting appetite - Assist the management team with developing and refining Underwriting and Pricing Guidelines - Assist the management team in new product development efforts to include initiation, research and implementation of new products as well as product/process enhancements - In coordination with the management team, participate in the development and execution of annual business plans for the division to include a profitable underwriting strategy - Lead research projects on trends impacting our business - Participate in book profitability analyses and corresponding action plan development - Stay abreast and knowledgeable on market trends and conditions to guide our business and achieve objectives - Lead the Underwriting Audit/Quality Control (QC) process to drive underwriting quality including:        Daily review of ‘bound’ new business to confirm the unit is maintaining underwriting integrity                  Daily review of ‘declined’ accounts to ensure opportunities are not being missed - Assist in the development of forms and endorsements and lead the coordination with Claims and Legal to finalize wording - Lead and participate in projects and initiatives as assigned by leadership - Other special projects/duties as assigned

The Senior Management Liability Claims Specialist handles management liability and fidelity cases involving complex questions of coverage, legal liability and damages utilizing experts outside the firm as required.  S/he also works with underwriting in developing and interpreting policy language and, in conjunction with loss control, assists in the analysis and recommendations on loss sensitive and special accounts.  Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Investigates all assigned claims, analyses coverage applicability/limitations and sets appropriate reserves - Prepares reports and obtains authority to increase reserve in excess of authority - Manages disposition of claims and issues appropriate payments on all assigned claims - Determines when appropriate to retain outside counsel - Maintains required logs, proper diaries on all open files and records all activity in file notes - Maintains appropriate state licenses - Serves as a mentor in the training and development of less experienced staff/provides input in roundtable discussions. - Attends settlement conferences, trials and mediations on a regular basis. - Effectively negotiates with insureds and third parties, listening carefully to demands using an objective approach to resolve the claim fairly. - Informs other departments of positive/negative conditions noted during investigations which may impact company results. - Participates in special account reviews and presents agents and insureds with recommendations for improving their loss ratio and information on best practices. - Engages with reinsurance partners on claims issues and industry trends, as well as on specific large and/or complex claims within inventory

The Associate Underwriter works within a production underwriting team to produce commercial insurance products for selected retail agency partners.  The products provided are Commercial General Liability, Commercial Property, Commercial Inland Marine, and Commercial Follow Form Excess.  The Associate Underwriter has a primary responsibility for policy issuance and ensuring that service standards and compliance guidelines are met.  The Associate Underwriter will analyze information and have the opportunity to connect with their assigned agency partners. Specific Duties - Under general direction, analyze renewal data, set up pricing using provided renewal pricing tools and issue renewal quotes and/or renewal policies as the guidelines dictate. - Assist other underwriters on assigned team with handling the issuance of binders, endorsements, cancellations, and, reinstatements for assigned agents within the service standard guidelines - Ensure underwriting files, service standards and compliance guidelines are adhered to and underwriting authority letter is followed at all times. - Rapidly evaluate, prioritize, and select most important tasks to handle for the assigned underwriting team. This includes but is not limited to: - Handling of assigned team’s general email inbox - Rating multi-location, multi-state accounts as needed for other underwriters on assigned team(s) - Ordering Loss Control reports from third party vendors when requested - Enter reinsurance cessions into reinsurance accounting system for payment reconciliation May perform other functions as assigned.

The Associate Underwriter works within a production underwriting team to produce commercial insurance products for selected retail agency partners.  The products provided are Commercial General Liability, Commercial Property, Commercial Inland Marine, and Commercial Follow Form Excess.  The Associate Underwriter has a primary responsibility for policy issuance and ensuring that service standards and compliance guidelines are met.  The Associate Underwriter will analyze information and have the opportunity to connect with their assigned agency partners. Specific Duties - Under general direction, analyze renewal data, set up pricing using provided renewal pricing tools and issue renewal quotes and/or renewal policies as the guidelines dictate. - Assist other underwriters on assigned team with handling the issuance of binders, endorsements, cancellations, and, reinstatements for assigned agents within the service standard guidelines - Ensure underwriting files, service standards and compliance guidelines are adhered to and underwriting authority letter is followed at all times. - Rapidly evaluate, prioritize, and select most important tasks to handle for the assigned underwriting team. This includes but is not limited to: - Handling of assigned team’s general email inbox - Rating multi-location, multi-state accounts as needed for other underwriters on assigned team(s) - Ordering Loss Control reports from third party vendors when requested - Enter reinsurance cessions into reinsurance accounting system for payment reconciliation May perform other functions as assigned.

The Claims Professional is responsible for the analysis and management of workers’ compensation claims for assigned clients, including minor and complex claims.  This position will review, investigate, and make decisions regarding coverage, compensability, and appropriateness of claims.  The position will process and document claims to ensure compliance with company standards, industry best practices, and legislative provisions. Acts in a fiduciary role on behalf of policyholders and negotiates claim settlements. Claims Professionals conduct the handling of claims in the utmost of good faith in compliance with the rules, regulations and state statutes. Experience and the degree to which a claim professional can work independently to make sound decisions, reserve recommendations and drive outcomes will determine the hiring position, ranging from a Claim Representative I to a Senior Claim Representative. The Claims Professional is expected to function with a high degree of competency and independence. The use of sound judgment coupled with strong technical claim handling skills and consistent results are expected.    Principle Responsibilities - Analyzes and processes workers’ compensation claims by investigating and gathering information to determine the exposure on the claim. - Negotiate settlement of claims up to designated authority level and makes claims payments. - Calculates and assigns timely appropriate reserves to claims and continues to manage reserve adequacy throughout the life of the claim. - Calculates and pays benefits due; approves all claim payments; and settles claims within designated authority level. - Develops and manages claims though well-developed action plans; continues to work the action plan to bring the claim to an appropriate and timely resolution. - Prepares necessary state filings within statutory limits. - Actively manages the litigation process; ensures timely and cost-effective claims resolution. - Coordinates vendor referrals for additional investigation and/or litigation management. - Uses appropriate cost containment techniques including strategic vendor partnerships to reduce overall cost of claims. - Frequently communicates with all appropriate parties involved with the claim. - Maintains professional client relationships. - Actively executes appropriate claims activities to ensure consistent delivery of quality claims services.

The Commercial Underwriting Specialist accepts, retains and prices agribusiness insurance risks of significant size or technical complexity in accordance with established underwriting guidelines and within delegated authority level.  Manages book of business to achieve profitable growth objectives by properly classifying and pricing risks; building strong internal and external business relationships; analyzing competitive marketing data, and developing, implementing and monitoring action plans as appropriate.  Serves as the point of contact for assigned agencies and is responsible for the agency relationship.  Serves as technical underwriting resource to staff and facilitates the placement of facultative reinsurances as needed. - Assesses new commercial agribusiness insurance risks and determines accurate classification of business, policy contract forms and pricing of risk.  Works within broad limits and authority on commercial underwriting accounts of significant size or high technical complexity.  Evaluates property (COPE) information, liability exposures, fleet and safety programs, loss history, financial reports, risk control reports, etc.  Accepts and prices risk in accordance with established underwriting guidelines and within delegated authority level.   - Reviews renewal accounts by examining business operations, classification, contract forms and loss activity.   Determines if account is an acceptable risk or if it will be non-renewed.  Determines price in accordance with established underwriting guidelines and within delegated authority level.  Reviews accounts and endorsement requests exceeding Senior Underwriter, Underwriter or Underwriting Assistant’s authority level and takes appropriate procedural action.   - Develops, expands and/or enhances agency relationships to promote profitability and growth of new business and the retention of existing business.  Travels and meets with agents and customers to enhance business relationships.  Educates agency staff on pricing, product set and risk selection philosophy.  Participates in the agency management process.  Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of agencies and assists them in achieving the mutual goal of sustained profitable growth.    - Identifies new business opportunities from the agency force to assess, quote, inspect and accept.  Collaborates with Underwriting team, Risk Control, Claims, IT and Senior Management to create strong agency partnerships and build a profitable book of business.  Effectively manages book of business to achieve established profitability, growth and retention goals.m  - Serves as a technical underwriting resource to underwriting staff and agents regarding products, coverages and rating procedures.  Provides professional development knowledge and guidance to Senior Underwriters, Underwriters, Underwriting Assistants and other functional areas.   - Identifies and handles accounts that require placement of facultative reinsurance and facilitates placement through W.R. Berkley Corporation approved markets.   - Analyzes agency results, competitive marketing data and operating environment of territory/agency.  Stays current on relevant insurance industry trends and issues.  

Looking for a Financial Analyst to become part of a Corporate Financial Planning and Data Analysis team.  This person will be involved with strategic analysis and content evaluation related to various global financial applications.  The individual will work cross-functionally to translate & consolidate data from multiple Berkley operating units into a cohesive set of financial data which will be used to inform decisions regarding profitability and risk assessment.  The cross-functional nature of the project will require the coordination from various teams such as underwriting, marketing, claims, technology, actuarial, accounting and operations.  This role will focus on strategy & analysis of the integration of various financial data sets and applications in order to facilitate best practices and drive innovation for the future state of operating unit’s data.   Responsibilities:  - Determine and implement data reporting strategies to provide critical information to operating units, finance, and other key areas. - Partner with non-financial business managers and team members to perform strategic work - Assist with general business processes, accounting, audits, financial related issues, and other production related items associated with Peoplesoft, Vena, and the Berkley Data Warehouse (BDW). - Present work and engage in strategic discussions with senior management. - Work cross-functionally with multiple departments including Underwriting, Marketing, Claims, Accounting, etc. - Responsible for the development of reporting requirements and models to facilitate analyses supported by data metrics and analytics from various applications. - Conduct analysis of key business drivers, trends and performance indicators to provide value-added inputs. - Manage and complete monthly reconciliations for companies going through the implementation. - Work extensively with both international and US based finance teams across the multiple projects. - Monitor and manage adherence to financial standards and governance implemented by the Corporate Finance organization and BDW steering committee.

Berkley Asset Protection, a Berkley company, is hiring for the position of Underwriting Analyst in its New York City office. The job location is New York City and reports to the Assistant Vice President of Underwriting.   Berkley Asset Protection was established in 2008 to deliver the industry’s most complete and high quality portfolio of specialized insurance products and services to protect fine art, jewelry and other high-value personal and commercial assets. We support the market through close partnerships with an established distribution network of retail and wholesale insurance professionals. Our brokers and agents cater to a global base of clients in a variety of environments, including private and corporate art collections, museums, galleries, and exhibition, jewelry wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers, along with those who work with collectibles, currencies, securities, and other high-value assets. Our claims and loss control operation is the undisputed gold standard for the entire fine art and jewelry insurance industry.   About the job Our culture is one of innovation, creativity and teamwork. Our team is highly motivated, passionate about our business, and deeply experienced in developing and delivering product and service solutions to personal and commercial customers. This role will be responsible for providing support to Underwriting.   What you will do - Work with underwriters to learn and review risk management reports to identify and recommend risk management solutions and requirements - Shadow an underwriter to understand the daily role of communication, risk selection and work priority. - Work with underwriter to understand our Jewelers Block risk appetite in terms of profitable Block business versus challenged Block business. - Conduct deep dive research into customers (both brokers and insureds) and their risk characteristics - Be well versed in the underwriting assistant responsibilities which include: - Prepare underwriting transactions, including renewals, new lines and endorsements - Review and follow up for required documentation and signatures - Process administrative changes including broker of record, non-renewals, cancelations, reinstatements and other changes - Complete quotes on business submitted by agents and brokers - Complete data entry and/or upload of large schedules and other data - Resolve discrepancies from third party data reports - Projects and other work as assigned

The Underwriting Assistant provides administrative support to a team of Underwriters and Underwriting Leaders.  Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Prepares accounts for renewal by conducting claims checks, preparing a brief financial analysis, and researching recent corporate events.  - Assists underwriters in the quoting, binding, and issuance process by using proprietary systems to generate the necessary letters and documents. - Handles all premium entry using proprietary systems for all new and renewal accounts and endorsements. - Works with the finance department to reconcile any accounting discrepancies. - Compiles client meeting preparation documents for Management use. - Maintains other spreadsheets / databases as required. - Maintains accurate policy files on bound and lost business accounts by scanning and uploading necessary documents on a weekly basis.  - Prepares for and participates on group underwriting conference calls conducted in advance of quoting.

- Responsible for new and renewal accounts with a focus on acquisition including underwriting and pricing accounts in accordance with Acadia’s underwriting standards and personal underwriting authority. - Evaluate, select, and price policies for assigned agencies to achieve underwriting profit (within underwriting authority), premium growth, desired business mix, market/agency penetration, and agency management objectives with a focus on new business. Refer risks exceeding authority to management with recommendations for approval or disposition. - Develop and manage assigned agency relationships with producers and customers through visitations and regular customer contact. - Evaluate the performance of assigned agencies on an ongoing basis to ensure company and agency goals and objectives are met. Participate in review and evaluation of agencies and make recommendations on agency management issues. Communicate corporate goals, programs, underwriting policies, procedures, and guidelines to agents. - Monitor production, hit ratios, renewal retention ratios, spread of risk, and other production and quality measures. - Request information needed for underwriting and pricing of assigned business. - Conduct negotiations with assigned agents. - Coordinate loss control, claim, audit and billing services as needed. - Bind reinsurance, review certificates from reinsurers. - Maintain a workflow for your assigned territory which meets all the standards and expectations of the department. Strive to improve processes within the Company to increase the level and quality of service provided to internal and external customers. - Demonstrate a commitment to self-development. - Manage larger agencies and complex accounts. - Act as a resource for others in the department and provide direction to underwriters and support staff as needed. - Negotiate facultative reinsurance on accounts where needed. - Train or assist in training others as necessary. Help co-workers improve their skills by sharing your knowledge. - Develop loss sensitive pricing approaches including retrospective rating plans and large deductibles. - Assist in the training (coverages, new products) of staff.

The Financial Operations Specialist is responsible for working with our internal and external business partners to ensure that receivables are managed in accordance with industry best practices. This role performs a variety of accounting and bookkeeping duties and maintains contact with brokers and observes confidentiality of customer proprietary information. This role requires a light to moderate accounting background with the intellectual curiosity to grow within a progressive and dynamic team. Career path for this role would eventually be aligned with financial reporting and analysis track.   - Manage customer relations at the primary level. - Perform secondary (escalated) customer relation duties as required. - Secondary operational duties as required. - Perform A/R general ledger entries and reconciliations. - Manage due diligence on unclaimed property. - Provide support in creating metrics for management. - Participate in reserving analysis, work with Controller in reviewing analysis and perform accounting entries Assist in budgeting activities associated with A/R. - Track and manage outstanding premium and deductible receivables. (Including External Agency Management) Propose appropriated write off items to leadership. - Assist in developing strategies and tactics to address challenges in A/R with the intent on reducing aging, and associated expenses. - Assist in implementing new procedures focused on operational efficiency and controls. - Additional financial reporting and forecasting projects as assigned.

The Senior Casualty Underwriter will work in a team setting generating, underwriting and analyzing accounts for development of new and renewal commercial casualty business.   - Compliance with underwriting documentation rules and guidelines. - Maintain an acceptable underwriting profit. - Adherence to Admiral underwriting guidelines and referral compliance. - Development and maintenance of key broker/agent relationships. - Participates in all internal company training and continuing education. - Remains current on product releases as it pertains to Commercial Casualty. - Leads strategic marketing calls to key brokers (up to 25%). - Management and development of business and broker relationships new to the organization. - Stay abreast and knowledgeable on market trends in terms of forms, coverage and appetite to maintain competitiveness. - Active mentorship and training of Associate Underwriters and Underwriters. - Act as a referral authority for Associate Underwriters and Underwriters.

The Senior Underwriter partners with agents to manage a challenging and/or complex book of commercial business or agency relationships. S/he demonstrates complex decision-making with little or no supervision, recommending quality exceptions where appropriate to maximize profitability and meet business plans. Supports marketing activities to agents and actively participates in the agency management process. Serves as a mentor providing technical support, training, and problem solving for other underwriters.  Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Analyzes commercial lines accounts to make decisions based on individual risk characteristics, exposure analysis, hazard recognition and control.  Utilizes underwriting guidelines to ensure compliance with state regulations.  Within delegated authority levels, accepts, rejects or modifies new and/or renewal business to ensure a profitable book of business.   - Prices business according to Company underwriting and pricing guidelines.  Assists less experienced underwriters in the handling of high hazard or more complex accounts.  Ability to use creativity and underwriting knowledge to write risks and retain business. - Partners with Territory Managers to support marketing activities by developing ongoing relationships with agents to discuss market appetite, quality and profitability of submissions, service standards, and underwriting and/or product changes.  Communicates with agents on underwriting issues including decisions on cancellations, declinations, exposure concerns, and survey results. - Partners with Territory Managers to identify issues or patterns and works to resolve or improve them; participates in agency planning and review processes; and may identify sales and marketing opportunities.   Takes a lead role relative to Key Account review and recommendations. - Travels, with or without Territory Manager, to assigned agent locations to develop agency partnerships.  - Trains and educates agency staff on Company products, services, processes, and underwriting philosophy.   - Assists in training and serves as a technical resource to other underwriters as needed.  - Attends industry workshops/meetings each year.

A leadership role with responsibility for the coordination and implementation of the underwriting review process.   Extensive and diversified technical property, casualty and specialty underwriting experience will be utilized to evaluate W. R. Berkley Operating Units’ underwriting practices and procedures based on their business strategies, focus, guidelines and financial return goals.  The Leader will work with a team of underwriting experts from other W. R. Berkley Operating Units or outsourced partners and communicate results and value added recommendations to Senior Management.    Reviews include examination of individual underwriting files for: risk selection; underwriting; pricing, use and adequacy of rating models; wordings including coverage provided and other terms and conditions; rate rule and form compliance; limits management; use of loss control and/or risk management, use of facultative reinsurance; and quoting, binding and issuance process.  In addition, the process can include an evaluation of the management of producers and distribution channels, delegated underwriting authorities, service standards, aggregations, exposures, emerging issues and interaction with claims and actuarial functions.   - Lead a value added Underwriting review process that provides Management with an independent assessment of the underwriting of the Operating Unit’s portfolio and/or a specific class of business. - Develop and maintain relationships and communication with corporate Segment Heads, Actuaries, SVP Enterprise Risk Management and SVP Claims. - Continuously improve the Underwriting review process and reporting procedures through automation, standardization and a current understanding of the underwriting environment, market conditions, competition and other factors facing the industry. - Ensure that reviews are well planned, thorough and useful and achieve the goals of confirming and enhancing underwriting, risk selection, pricing and processes at operating units - Maintain and improve necessary skills to conduct a review and report on the underwriting practices, pricing, and risk selection. - Utilize product level knowledge to consider whether the Operating Unit’s pricing and underwriting policies and other procedures are applied correctly and consistently. - Assess the effectiveness of the organizational structure, staffing, and management information. - Analyze key performance metrics in order to determine whether the Operating Units are achieving Operating Plans and goals. - Staff and plan the review (reviews are primarily staffed with underwriters from W. R. Berkley’s other operating units). - Lead interviews with departmental personnel and Senior Management. - Coordinate the work of the review team members. - Document the work performed and the findings. - Identify opportunities for improvement. - Lead closing meetings and deliver feedback. - Prepare written reports and recommendations. - Follow- up on implementation of recommendations.  

The Data Analyst reports to the President of the company and provides support to customer and agent experiences through the development of data models and uses analytical insights to drive market leading ease of doing business concepts. S/he will collaborate with and provide support to the Senior Management team across a portfolio of diverse projects ranging from Underwriting, Actuary and Sales analytics.  Early phases of work will focus on helping develop key pieces of analytics, analysis, data and reporting across the group.  Overtime the role will evolve into more strategic, project-based work to provide targeted solutions to multi-dimensional problems. The position entails working in a dynamic environment, interacting with management and all insurance functions, including IT & Systems, Actuarial, Claims, Underwriting, Reinsurance, and Finance. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to applying actuarial and data science methodologies to create both regularly-scheduled and project-based deliverables including: - Development and deployment of tools, best practices, and templates to help consolidate, standardize and accelerate key analysis and reporting, wherever there are opportunities. - Perform testing and documentation of actuarial reserving and pricing in collaboration with operating unit Actuary and under the guidance of the Corporate Actuary team. - Participate in discussions to provide observations and recommendations from both a commercial and regulatory/actuarial standards perspective. - Design and implement new management information to extract actionable insights from data for Underwriting and Sales. - Help to manage, maintain, and provide data across multiple platforms and warehouses consistent with corporate data strategy and information sharing protocols. - Be a resource for new and innovative ideas to continually challenge the status quo. - Support operating entities with ad-hoc requests for actuarial support and overall operating unit analytics.

Key Risk is looking for a claims professional who enjoys analysis and management of workers compensation claims.    Principle Responsibilities - Analyzes and processes workers’ compensation claims by investigating and gathering information to determine the exposure on the claim. - Negotiate settlement of claims up to designated authority level and makes claims payments. - Calculates and assigns timely an appropriate reserves to claims and continues to manage reserve adequacy throughout the life of the claim. - Calculates and pays benefits due; approves all claim payments; and settles claims within designated authority level. - Develops and manages claims though well-developed action plans; continues to work the action plan to bring the claim to an appropriate and timely resolution. - Prepares necessary state filings within statutory limits. - Actively manages the litigation process; ensures timely and cost-effective claims resolution. - Coordinates vendor referrals for additional investigation and/or litigation management. - Uses appropriate cost containment techniques including strategic vendor partnerships to reduce overall cost of claims. - Frequently communicates with all appropriate parties involved with the claim. - Maintains professional client relationships. - Actively executes appropriate claims activities to ensure consistent delivery of quality claims services.