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Key Risk is looking for an experienced Java Developer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming.
Principle Responsibilities
- Create, design and test web-based Java applications to support business goals
- Perform program coding and testing and address technical issues through research, investigation and debugging
- Contribute to the development of project risk mitigation plans to ward off potential technical issues
- Apply problem solving abilities to familiar and unfamiliar technical disciplines
- Solve technical problems with possible conflicts using knowledge from prior experience and technical discipline
- Learn and apply existing technical processes, methodologies, and skills that lead to new technical processes or systems
- Provide appropriately timed task estimates by understanding and planning for technical/project dependencies
- Improve existing applications or influence technical direction on a project, resulting in time or cost savings to Key Risk
- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases
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To provide risk managements services to Berkley Southeast Insurance Group policyholders in a way that enhances our relationship with our policyholders and our agency partners
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Surveys policyholders and prospective accounts for the purpose of evaluating loss potential. Develops conclusions and objectives based on loss control standards and submits loss control survey reports as required. Uses innovative loss control techniques, systems or equivalent for conducting specialized surveys.
- Consults with policyholders, producers, claims, and underwriters to develop account service plans and initiate loss control services when necessary. Offers alternative loss control measures to improve safety problems and assist in evaluating cost effectiveness of loss control procedures.
- Shows advanced business acumen and the ability to sell policyholders on tough recommendations by showing the insured their return-on-investment. Must also show an understanding of advanced change management and project management to help an insured implement a requested change.
- Conducts field and classroom training of loss control staff and underwriting teams as requested. Initiates, designs and conducts safety training programs for policyholders as required. Initiates and/or delivers loss control training for producers and policyholders.
- Follows established safety standards and insures proper care and usage of safety equipment and other company materials.
- Participates in Agency Review, Large Loss and/or other profit center meetings as required.
- Performs other duties as required or requested
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Key Risk is looking for an enthusiastic and experience underwriter with established relationships to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for contributing to achieving and exceeding the regions’ profit plan through proper risk selection, agency management, and communication of Key Risk’s value proposition.
Principle Responsibilities
- Underwrite accounts in the middle market sector within established underwriting authority
- Manage a book of business totaling a minimum of $10,000,000
- Develops and maintains relationships with 10-15 agencies
- Responsible for a moderate number of agencies including partners with Advantage and/or Premier status within our Key Alliance agency structure
- Achieves/exceeds planned accident year loss ratio, rate change, renewal retention and inforce premium goals
- Takes initiative to recommend potential improvements in underwriting principles, techniques or appetite
- Complies with insurance filings and regulatory requirements
- Research new market niches, serve as an industry lead, and participate in special projects
- Establishes a knowledge base of agency needs, staff, target markets, and contracted insurers
- Performs agency evaluations and establishes agency goals within required time frames and expectations
- Participates effectively in new and renewal team sales activities and Client Service Management (CSM) meetings to obtain and retain profitable business
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Our Underwriting Team has a fantastic opportunity for an Underwriting Assistant responsible for providing administrative support to the department. The primary role of the Underwriting Assistant is to process new business submissions, assist brokers with online broker systems. This position requires particular attention to detail, being a team player, and is task-oriented.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide excellent customer service by answering phones within three rings.
- Handle phone and email requests/inquiries in a quick, professional, and courteous manner.
- Achieve a working knowledge of the company’s new business selection philosophy.
- Process and organize new business submissions in accordance with Company specifications.
- Communicate with brokers as necessary to obtain additional information or assist them with entering new business submissions.
- Process declinations
- Process WCIRB correspondence.
- Other duties as deemed necessary.
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Purpose: Responsible for the overall maintenance and administration of Intrepid’s implementation of Salesforce and the TechCanary agency management system.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The Salesforce Administrator will work with multiple teams within the organization to ensure that Salesfoce and TechCanary meet the company’s needs. They will be primarily responsible for the maintenance, configuration and enhancements to the TechCanary agency management system. As a TechCanary administrator your responsibilities include:
- Perform all Salesforce and TechCanary administration functions.
- Maintain the production environment to support multiple growing teams.
- Manage multiple sandbox environments to support Salesforce changes and the needs of a separate software development team.
- Provide end user support for internal users.
- Work with systems analyst and business teams to create innovative solutions using Salesforce as part of solution strategy.
- Identify operational workflow/system improvements and work with business and engineering teams to implement
- Document design and implement Salesforce solutions using standard configuration and following best practices including: field enhancements, views, reports, dashboards, validation rules, workflow rules, process builders, approval processes, campaigns and other SFDC objects and functions.
- Document best practices for salesforce administration, configuration, and development.
- Research and evaluate potential apps to be included in salesforce platform.
- Develop and deliver documentation/presentations to end users to illustrate solutions, new functionality and training for end-users
- As new functionality is developed, coordinate with systems analyst and outside teams to design and execute necessary testing to ensure excellent user experience.
- Coordinate release of salesforce features with software development team.
- Responsible for understanding Salesforce and TechCanary releases and new products to potentially address ongoing business needs
- Manage and prioritize daily case inquiries
- Provide prompt and complete resolution to technical challenges and business issues
- Monitor application storage usage, conduct data cleansing and archiving as needed
- Manage data imports and continuously monitor and improve data quality
- Manage user roles, user profiles, hierarchies, groups and sharing rules in order to ensure proper SFDC sharing and security settings
- Assumes other tasks and duties as assigned by management
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The Senior Counsel is a licensed attorney with five or more years of relevant work experience. The Senior Counsel provides an array of legal services to internal clientele and assists the General Counsel with day-to-day oversight of the legal affairs of the organization. In this position the Senior Counsel will provide research, advice, and other assistance as requested. They may also provide counsel to management and other employees within the company, other W. R. Berkley operating units and coordinate with outside legal counsel as required. This position also requires a high degree of inherent discretion and decision making confidence.
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The position is responsible for assisting with all aspects of the accounts payable closing cycle and preparation of various components of the company’s expense reporting packages based on US GAAP and Statutory requirements. Reporting and accounting responsibilities include payments, accruals, vendor management, expense analysis, and reporting of expenses on a monthly and annual basis.
Major Responsibilities:
- Responsible for full accounts payable (P2P - Procure to Pay) cycle for the supported operating units.
- Primary liaison with BFINS (centralized payment team) for all aspects of expenses – payment, coding, research, approval (automated and manual), accruals, analysis, etc.
- Responsible for expense accounting, reporting, and analysis leveraging Egencia, Perceptive, CCER, Hyperion Essbase, PeopleSoft and other company used systems.
- Provide analysis with the selection of new vendors and evaluation of existing vendors in a procurement role.
- Assist with the preparation and analysis of supporting schedules for expense journal entries in a controlled and timely manner.
- Other duties as assigned.
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The Claims Superintendent will be responsible for determining and discharging the company's contractual obligations under its various policy contracts involving coverage analysis, investigation, legal defense, and loss and expense reserving.
Responsibilities:
- Incorporate all claims into company records and review for applicability of coverage.
- Present facts of claims, with recommendations, to committee as necessary.
- Establish initial loss and expense reserves. Maintain valid loss and expense reserves based on current investigation and legal discovery.
- Supervise activities of Independent Adjusters, investigators and defense attorneys to ensure that all claims are appropriately handled.
- Attend and participate in mediations/trials as necessary.
- Adhere to company procedures and guidelines as well as case law and statutory
- requirements when coverage is in question, and/or when paying or denying claims.
- Comply with reporting requirements of treaty and facultative reinsurers.
- Maintain current understanding of various unfair claim practices statutes.
- Prepare large loss reports where applicable.
- Additional tasks as assigned.
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Carolina Casualty is looking for a talented and ambitious Claims Attorney who will be responsible for investigating, assessing, managing and resolving commercial automobile litigation and complex claims.
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We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Litigation Specialist –with potential for remote employment. Primary responsibilities include:
- High severity, high complexity losses in all 50 states
- CGL, Miscellaneous Professional Liability, Liquor Liability
- Commercial Excess GL, Personal Umbrella
- Some Intellectual Property and New York Labor Law
- Declaratory Judgment Actions
- Substantial coverage analysis of manuscript forms and close partnering with Underwriters
- Some travel for mediation and trial attendance
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Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage a territory of select, independent agents. The Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group strives to build strong, deep relationships with a limited number of agencies in each geography.
- Build and maintain proactive agency relationships to increase production in small commercial.
- Cultivate and underwrite new business opportunities through personal meetings (proactive, planned calls) with agents
- Grow premium volume in assigned territory through existing relationships as well as new agency relationships
- Proactively develop marketing plans and new business generation opportunities with partnered agencies
- Proactively seek competitor intelligence and pricing in assigned territory and make recommendations to ensure BMAG’s product offering continues to be relevant and differentiated in the market
- Evaluate prospective profitability of potential business submissions in agents’ offices and make justifiable pre-qualification decisions
- Underwrite agency submissions and deliver win-win outcomes for BMAG and our agency partners
- Train, and advocate for BMAG agency collaboration tools like our quote systems, agency portal and online endorsement capabilities
- Other duties as required
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Duties and responsibilities:
- Department liaison with Corporate Underwriting
- Occasional drafting of Small Commercial specific underwriting position papers (guidelines)
- Participation in regional company projects dedicated to improving online underwriting questions and rules
- Underwrites business (new or renewal)
- Gather appropriate information to profitably underwrite a variety of commercial risks.
- Determine final coverages and pricing for commercial risks within assigned authority level.
- Review claims and loss information on individual risks. Use this information to identify and re-evaluate accounts and develop strategy for dealing with exposures and frequency issues.
- Maintain established quality and service standards.
- Work collaboratively with assigned Small Commercial Sales-Underwriter to set strategy and growth goal with co-assigned agents, inclusive of identifying and cultivating new business opportunities with assigned agents, and managing renewals
- Identify and execute on cross-sell and up-sell opportunities on both new submissions and existent accounts
- Be a trusted advisor to both our agents and Sales-Underwriters
- Educate our agents on differentiated product offerings, and ease of doing business systems
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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Duties and Responsibilites:
- Gather appropriate information to profitably underwrite a variety of Middle Market commercial risks.
- Research, formulate and implement solutions for complex issues and accounts.
- Determine final coverages and pricing for commercial risks within assigned authority level.
- Review claims and loss information on individual risks. Use this information to identify and re-evaluate accounts and develop strategy for dealing with exposures and frequency issues.
- Take a lead role relative to Key Account review and recommendations.
- Take ownership of your underwriting territory through strong book management skills.
- Work to develop and maintain agency relationships with a focus on long-term profitability and growth.
- Work in collaboration with Loss Control partners to focus on controlling exposures and maintaining controls. Join Loss Control on visits with individual accounts.
- Maintain established quality and service standards.
- Establish strong working relationships with key producers.
- Mentor less experienced underwriters and serve as a resource for others within the department as needed.
- Successfully build, manage and execute a New Business Pipeline.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Keeps abreast of industry developments, particularly those which impact his or her area(s) of responsibility.
- Understands Berkley Mid-Atlantic’s business and the factors that affect its success.
- Communicates regularly and effectively.
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Position Summary:
The qualified applicant will be responsible for management and administration of our Mobility environment with additional responsibilities to our collaborative environment including Exchange 2013/2016 and Exchange Online/Office 365. This applicant will mature our Enterprise Mobility Management offerings including deployment, operation, application wrapping, policy creation and management of the Company container on CORP or BYOD devices. In addition the qualified applicant will be responsible to administer other collaborative technologies within the Collaborative and Mobility space. These include but are not limited to alternative messaging strategies, Proofpoint messaging security tools, Trend Anti-Virus, level 2 & 3 troubleshooting and capacity planning in a distributed environment.
Core Responsibilities:
- Implementation, testing, and evaluation of Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM) solutions
- Integration of mobile capabilities (High Availability, device/app VPN, Content management, Wireless Local Area Network Security and Company container management for BYOD
- Wrapping of purchased and home grown Mobile applications (iOS and/or Android)
- Development of mobile device policies and configurations on various operating systems
- Strong understanding of Mobile client/server relationship, level 2/3 support
- Strong ActiveSync knowledge for mobility support
- Strong Active Directory knowledge to resolve Mobile or Exchange related issues
- Microsoft Exchange 2013 Enterprise environment management
- Provide administration and engineering support for all messaging related projects such implementing new systems or processes
- Clear understanding of Certificate Management
- Clear understanding of disaster recovery and business continuity & recovery processes
- Clear understanding of mail gateway configuration and concepts
- Clear understanding of front end/back end, OWA, MOWA, RPC/HTTPS and ActiveSync
- Create documentation of processes and procedures
- Provide second and third level support for all Collaboration Systems
- One week in seven in an on-call rotation of 24 x 7 availability
- Archive processing and related technologies
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Act as a property and casualty insurance business and systems subject matter expert. Collaborate with various business teams in defining, documenting and communicating business strategy, process and operations. Effectively identify, document, translate and communicate business requirements to software development, systems analysts and quality assurance personnel. Review and analyze requests and requirements and subsequently identify the most effective and efficient process, methods and systems to achieve the stated goals and objectives. Lead the investigation, analysis and design of effective and efficient system and workflow processes. Lead the development and execution of test cases to ensure system changes are performing per the business requirements. Understand and participate in the development of business strategy, goals and objectives.
Principle Responsibilities:
- Liaison between business and technical team to define requirements
- Act as the subject matter expert for the assigned domain, products and services
- Define business issues, data challenges, and process opportunities – recommend solutions to fit user requirements
- Understand the processes and specifications of each assigned system
- Document and analyze required information and data
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
- Apply software application/industry knowledge to develop business requirements (functional and non-functional), documentation, wire frames, use cases, workflows and business process documentation
- Understand the direction, structure, and requirements for each project from the business perspective and communicate effectively to the development and testing resources
- Assist the testing team to define test conditions relevant to project requirements
- Contribute in development of complete, accurate test strategies, test plans, test cases throughout the duration of projects
- Contribute to effective defect management and resolution; this includes detailed reporting of issues; triage; root cause analysis; retesting and closure
- Effectively communicates risks and issues to the Project Manager/Project leader; recommends solutions and mitigation strategies
- Perform project management responsibilities including developing project plans with defined timelines and budget; identify resource requirements; track and report project progress; identify and mitigate risks and issues that may impact project delivery
- Conform to project deadlines and schedules; work with an appropriate sense of urgency; drive work to completion
- Participate in architectural analysis and source to data mapping as required
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the
- underlying true needs
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
- Develop ad-hoc and standard reports as required
- Provide effective communication regarding issues, objectives, initiatives and monitor performance to plan
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Become a part of Acadia’s New York Branch! We are currently seeking a production focused Underwriter to grow and build Acadia’s Small Commercial Account book of business in New York. As an Underwriter, your responsibilities will include executing Acadia’s underwriting strategies, traveling throughout the New York territory to attain new business and develop long-term and profitable agency relationships.
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The Manager of Sales & Distribution – Central California is responsible for the Central Valley (I-99 Corridor) and Central Coast Sales Territory- Area encompasses region south of Sacramento, south on I-99 to Bakersfield and west to the Central Coast, including San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara up to Monterey/Santa Cruz. This position is all about sales solicitation and the sales management of assigned brokers/producers and generating programs sales. The role involves setting in motion sales plans and driving the necessary strategies and sales actions needed to maximize profitable growth for Preferred Employers in this territory. This is a dual-purpose/dual-role function representing both Preferred Employers Insurance Company and Preferred's captive agency, Preferred Connect Insurance Center, LLC.
Primary responsibilities are as follows:
- Develop, implement and drive sales plans with both current brokers and new brokers to meet company goals.
- Identify, develop, implement, and manage program sales plans with target groups of business owners to meet both Preferred’s and Preferred Connect’s sales goals.
- Monitor both new sales and retention metrics monthly to ensure premium plan goal achievement.
- Works closely with all company departments to optimize PEI’s brand offering to the marketplace.’ This is an "on-the-road" type function requiring lots of windshield time, high-level of communications skill, direct broker contact and direct selling contact with targeted prospects/clients.
- Job demands ongoing sales prospecting and finding qualifying deals originating from territory.
- Expectation is that candidate will operate out of their automobile, their home office and PEI’s Walnut Creek/San Diego office as needed from time to time.
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The VP of Business Development has overall executive management responsibility for the business development function, including sales and marketing. The VP of Business Development is responsible for the formulation and execution of comprehensive strategies that drive the top line growth. This includes oversight for business planning, forecasting, and guidance in insurance industry affairs.
REQUIRED RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Direction
- Actively participate in and contribute to Leadership Team planning sessions for prospective and out-year financial & strategic goals.
- Provide high-level leadership, expertise and guidance in the business development functions; drive efficiency and innovation in all department sales and marketing activities.
- Participate as a member of the leadership team in the development of strategies; including making critical decisions affecting risk, profitability and growth as pertains to sales and marketing.
- Responsible for the oversight and creation of business development tactics to support the value proposition.
Process Management
- Responsible for the development, execution, and monitoring of sales action plans to achieve targeted growth, retention, and profitability goals.
- Oversee the identification, acquisition, and retention of quality, profitable business.
- Drive the research and identification of high quality prospective accounts that meet MEC’s risk/reward profile to create and maintain a perpetual pipeline of qualified prospects.
- Lead the assessment and implementation of ongoing process improvements in the sales and marketing departments as technologies and business models evolve.
- Maintain and innovate technical resources and controls that support professional business development performance.
- Assist teams, when necessary, with gathering information needed to accurately evaluate performance and exposure of accounts.
- Ensure sales staff appropriately utilizes budget dollars for travel, entertainment, etc.
Relationship Management
- Develop and implement business development processes and procedures which meet the needs of MEC, customers, regulatory requirement, and audit controls.
- Establish the organizational structure, environment, and accountability of the sales operations in order to deliver services to the business.
- Develop and manage relationships with key production sources, including account contacts, brokers, program management staff, and other Berkley companies in line with company policies and guidelines.
- Maintain visibility in the marketplace while expertly and professionally representing MEC.
- Hold planning discussions with appropriate department heads to understand each department’s long-term plans and revise understanding as needed.
Employee Performance & Development
- Manage staffing levels, analyze talent and ensure the department possesses the capabilities necessary to meet the needs of the organization and clients, development of employee knowledge, skills and abilities, and communicate standards of performance.
- Identify employees for promotional opportunities and create development plans to prepare them for their next step within the organization.
- Ensure high level of teamwork, mutual respect, and customer service mindset exists within the team.
- Ensure department is well informed of business matters consistent with MEC culture.
- Resolve performance issues consistent with company policy. Ensure compliance with company policies by all staff members.
- Perform appropriate analysis and take action when deviations are observed from expectations.
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Key Risk is looking for a skilled candidate with deep experience on the Microsoft SSIS stack. This role requires hands on expertise designing high volume repeatable ETL processes for large enterprise software and solutions developing very complex data transformations.
Principle Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design, development and support of ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) components, which will be used to move large amounts of data from source data and software application data stores into the optimized operational databases
- Tuning the ETL processes
- Creation of the technical and system specification documents necessary to support ETL processes
- Participate in development and execution of unit and system test plans
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Join our team as a Small Commercial Underwriter evaluating acceptability of individual risks and determining terms, conditions and pricing to achieve company profit and growth objectives. Work with agents/brokers to develop productive and profitable relationships and to ensure compliance with company underwriting guidelines.
Be a part of a high energy team with an entrepreneurial spirited company and have a meaningful impact in our organization!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Underwrites new business by reviewing the application for acceptability, requesting additional information, if necessary, and accepting or rejecting risks in conformance with company guidelines.
- Underwrites within authority set forth by Commercial Lines Vice President and within confines of company's reinsurance treaties and corresponds with agency to collect additional information.
- Underwrites renewal business by reviewing insured's file, producing agency's experience, nature and frequency of losses, loss control surveys, motor vehicle reports, and prior carrier loss experience.
- Assists Commercial Lines Vice President in development of new products, pricing, or coverage's needed.
- Develops productive and profitable relationships with agents.
- Maintains an established loss ratio.
- Meets established production goals and delivers timely service.
- Travels within the assigned territory to facilitate customer development and relationship through agency visitation and prospect calls.
- Pursues a program of continuing education by participating in industry sponsored and company sponsored educational courses.
- Assists in training of other personnel as directed.