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Binding Authority Brokers will be expected to bind policies which have profitable written premium growth and favorable loss ratios in accordance with Binding Authority Broker Guidelines, Line of Business risk appetite, individual Binding Authority Restrictions, and Corporate Entity Binding Authority Agreement and related limited Binding Authority Conditions and Restrictions. Binding Authority Brokers may also be required to oversee the efficiency and effectiveness of other Binding Authority Brokers and Technical Assistants.
- Analysis, rating, and pricing of New Business and Renewal risks.
- Preparation of Declination correspondence (when required).
- Completion/updating of data entry fields in Workflow Management System.
- Adherence Binding Authority Guidelines, Line of Business risk appetite, and personal Binding Authority.
- Development, maintenance, and management of producer relationships through visitations.
- Solicitation of additional information when needed.
- Evaluation of the performance of producer relationships to ensure Binding Authority Guidelines and goals are met.
- Awareness and maintenance of personal analysis and quality measures.
- Coordination of Loss Control services (as needed)
- Act as liaison with finance/accounting as needed.
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The SAN - Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for the design, documentation, implementation and support of the SAN infrastructure that BTS oversees. Job responsibilities will involve making design decisions, developing team standards, leading team initiatives and projects, and documentation that is based on the goals of project initiatives and changing business needs. This position will play a substantial support role involving different SAN related technologies, customer and team driven projects, handling incident tickets on a priority basis, and participation in service request orders to meet customer needs. A comprehensive performance management plan will involve the identification, discussion, and implementation of personal and business related objectives and goals aimed at career and team development.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- To communicate with technical and non-technical individuals and teams
- Work in very fast paced and dynamic production environment
- Must be able to work independently with little supervision handling multiple tasks and priorities
- Superior problem solving and analytical skills
- Dependable, self-motivated, organized, strong verbal and written communication skills
- Explore and apply emerging technologies that will support business technology needs
- Act as lead technical manager within SAN team for key business and team projects as needed.
- Provide road maps for SAN infrastructure relating to application road maps and business needs
- Design, build, configure, and install SAN related equipment and technologies
- Assist and mentor SAN Administrators and Engineers with providing routine SAN configuration, including provisioning and zone security for all Berkley companies, as requested.
- Monitor and track the health and performance of the SAN infrastructure.
- Create and distribute disk utilization, capacity planning, and trending reports.
- Oversee routine online upgrades to required service levels for all SAN switches and arrays.
- Design, administration and upgrades of all SAN management applications and tools.
- Design, administration and support of snapshot technology and data replication between datacenters.
- Collaborate with System Administration teams to deploy best practices and stewardship of all SAN resources.
- Collaborate with other teams as needed to oversee their IO requirements and performance including Cloud-based needs.
- On-call rotation and off-hours work as required by change control procedures.
- Travel to DR site and company sites as required.
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Security Automation & Metrics Engineer
The Sr. Splunk Security Engineer will be a member of the Berkley Information Security team. This team is responsible for identifying, developing and deploying cybersecurity controls across Berkley, leveraging the firm’s assets, network and data to identify threats. This role will partner heavily with IT, Networking, an Incident Response. This role will focus on creating meaningful security metrics and developing security automation.
Information Security has the responsibility of ensuring ingestion of various log types and data sources into our SIEM tool and production support of the environment. The role also involves use case development and ongoing upkeep per intel provided from various peer teams within the Cyber Security organization.
This role will focus on creating security metrics and security automation leveraging Splunk. The role requires a strong self-starter with a track record who can understand program objectives, standardized approach, and independently and proactively engage internal partners to align on an agreed upon solution.
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As a Business Translator Design Lead for Berkley Small Business, you will play an integral part in changing the way commercial insurance is delivered. The role will allow you to apply cutting-edge technology and work with sophisticated vendors to help solve a variety of business problems. Your contributions could be add value immediately as you join a team committed to implementing the best technology to our customers. This creates an environment where technology will be quickly implemented and have a real impact on the business. The role will provide exposure to a wide range of commercial insurance products and platforms.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work side by side with our vendor partners to lead the business requirements and implementation to design a market leading and data driven agency experience to allow our agents to quickly quote, book, and issue Small Commercial policies
- Create workflows for all future portal consumers including agents, regional companies, and SBS employees
- Serve as the translator of the insurance industry to our vendor partners, to ensure the portal meets all scenarios to ensure an exceptional customer experience
- Business ownership of the platform including requirements capturing, design, testing, workflow, and implementation to the regional organizations
- Serve as the business lead in all phases of development including implementation into the Regional companies
- Drive the creation of a business testing strategy and plan with input from IT and product teams
- Establish best practices to capture requirement to support building in a fast passed environment
- Be agile and open minded in the development approach and challenge solutions to create the most innovative technology driven outcome
- Clearly communicate status and progress to senior leaders
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The Information Security Architect is responsible for coordinating and consulting on the day to day management and execution of the Information Security program. Through effective governance routines, project and program execution tracking, this leader will support all Information Security verticals in their efforts to improve and mature the security posture of the firm.
As a Security Architect, this individual will also participate in the organization's evaluation of emerging technologies in Cyber Security space. More specifically, this role will require that the successful candidate can evaluate the potential cyber security opportunity for an emerging technology, understand the applicability to our corporate and operating units, build compelling business cases, and communicate these concepts across leadership. The Security Strategist will be responsible for working with the team and our various partners to establish and communicate points of view, while working with the business leadership to evaluate investments, staffing, target markets, and ROI expectations for areas of emerging technology that are recommended for pursuit. The successful candidate should be accomplished in building business cases, including financial projections that clearly articulate the mission and anticipated goals of any particular investment strategy.
This leader will assist the Head of Security Architecture in the continuous development and documentation of the Information Security program while keeping up to date on industry best practices, upcoming regulatory requirements, and emerging technologies to help ensure that WRBC can take a proactive approach to information security.
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Berkley Accident and Health is seeking a full time Underwriter for its Managed Care segment. This position will solicit, write and retain a profitable book of Managed Care/Reinsurance business. Requiring extensive underwriting analysis and sound judgment, this role will be responsible for contributing to the achievement of Berkley Accident & Health’s financial plans by meeting established premium growth and profitability goals.
Managed Care Underwriter Essential duties include:
- Assess risk to ensure that the risk meets established underwriting criteria
- Evaluate, price and propose rates based on established underwriting guidelines while meeting profitability standards set by Management.
- Manage assigned workload to meet productivity and time service standards.
- Maintain quote logs and ensure that appropriate action is taken within the requested due date.
- Develop and maintain successful relationships with target sources.
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Berkley Accident and Health is seeking a full time Stop Loss Underwriter for our Group Captive division. This position will write and retain profitable accounts that require underwriting experience, with an analytic approach to spread risk. This role will contribute to the achievement of Berkley’s financial plans by meeting premium growth and profitability of assigned book of business.
Stop Loss Underwriter, Captives Segment – Essential duties include:
• Underwrites and proposes financial structure on accounts from 50 – 400 employees within delegated authorities that are specific to position.
• Responsible for constant analysis and development of underwriting and business guidelines
• Develops and maintains successful relationships with target sources and assigned programs
• Responsible for ensuring profitability at both the single employer and group captive level
• Manages an assigned volume of case and program activity for both new and renewal policies
• Works with Supervisor and Actuary to revise and develop group captive tools to improve efficiencies in underwriting process.
• Communicates effectively with various team members within Captive Division
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The Vice President of Talent Management is responsible for creating and leading Berkley’s talent acquisition and training and development strategy to foster a talent-rich and high performance organization. The VP of Talent Management creates and develops strategies to attract, attain and retain talent and form deep partnerships with Berkley HR and Operating Unit leaders, as well as develop talent programs to create a world class employee experience. The VP of Talent Management will have impact through the full lifecycle of talent management including talent acquisition, talent development and organizational learning. The VP of Talent Management works to drive business performance and change management by connecting operating units with relevant and innovative learning experiences when and where they need them. In partnership with Berkley HR and business partners across our matrixed organization, the VP of Talent Management will develop and assist in the implementation of training programs to build leadership capabilities, foster high potential development, and advance Berkley’s strategic priorities. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Attract, lead, manage and mentor team of experienced recruiting and training and development professionals to ensure retention, development, and superior performance
- Manage and coordinate efforts with the Operating Units and Berkley HR to ensure that recruitment and training and development are executed within a matrixed organization
- Collaborate with VP HR to perform tasks including diagnosis, design, intervention, remedies, and implementation of solutions to enhance organizational effectiveness as well as employee development, productivity, engagement and retention
- Drive a data focused and metric based culture of accountability of talent management and employee engagement throughout the enterprise while partnering with the VP HR
- Drives a talent strategy that creates a best-in-class talent pool that constitutes a competitive advantage
- Build out data and analytics to measure the return on investment of talent management and training & development programs, including metrics on source of hire, time to hire/time to fill, cost of hire, measurement of candidate; experience, quality of hiring, and ensuring a diverse pipeline of talent as well as branding
- Consult on and implement strategies for the enterprise, including recruiting, leadership development, technical training, early talent programs and professional development with alignment to future business and talent needs
- Collaborate with operating units regarding long term workforce planning
- Prepare and review annual recruitment and L&D budget
- Manage recruiting and training vendor relationships by setting direction, measuring effectiveness and providing feedback on impact
- Proactively identify areas for process improvement, innovation and opportunities for efficiency and synergy
- Lead all recruiting efforts including early talent and lateral recruiting efforts including interns, trainees, entry level and experienced professionals for operating units
- The Vice President of Talent Management will lead a global team of skilled Talent Acquisition professionals by setting direction on global initiatives, streamlining operations, adopting systems, and enacting policies and programs that make the talent management function both efficient and highly effective
- Lead a global team of skilled Talent Acquisition professionals and set direction on global initiatives, streamlining operations, adopting systems, and enacting policies and programs that make the talent acquisition function both efficient and highly effective
- Champion diversity and culture in all aspects of the hiring process, from content of job descriptions, training for hiring managers, formulation of interview panels as well as candidate experience leading into a measurable improvement in availability and selection of diverse candidates into the organization
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies to build out pipeline for current and future hiring demands, understanding business needs
- Collaborating with Berkley HR to determine college recruiting strategy feeding into intern and graduate hiring programs
- Partner with the operating units during the recruiting process to leverage the Berkley employee value proposition and employer branding activities
- Partner collaboratively with operating units and Berkley HR to ensure alignment of key talent strategies across the enterprise including but not limited to development planning, professional skills development, creation of employee development toolkits
- Partner with VP HR to address leadership and culture challenges in the operating units they support;
- Lead the design and delivery of development experiences, including stakeholder management, communication plans, internal coaching, measuring impact, and on-going learning
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Berkley Agribusiness, a provider of property and casualty insurance solutions for select commercial agribusiness accounts, has an exciting employment opportunity for a Risk Control Specialist to service agribusiness and food product customers.
Located in the Western (California) Region, this position will be responsible for providing on –site risk control surveys for both prospective and existing policyholder locations for the purposes of gathering underwriting information and providing suggestions for risk improvement.
Specific duties include, but not limited to:
- Surveying commercial agribusiness properties (buildings, industrial operations, etc.)
- Consulting with insured's in regards to activities and programs available to control losses and improve safety
- Providing training, mentoring, specialized technical advice and counsel to internal staff regarding regulations
- Contributing to the development of safety materials and program.
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Join us as a Territory Underwriting Manager who will develop regional and local Business Strategic, Tactical and Operational plans. Execute Action Plans, develop deep agency relationships, and represents the Company locally, regionally and on a national basis. Partner with Sr. Management of the Company and Regional Companies to drive both growth and profitability. Place your mark in the development of Marine and Property strategic and tactical plans based on company plans, technological advances, and corporate plans and work within limits of authority requiring the highest degree of technical complexity and coordination. Our focus will be on complex property, marine risks and programs that will drive profitable growth.
Making an impact includes:
- Building superior distribution partnerships with agents and brokers. Developing and implements sales plans to leverage profitable business growth.
- Analyzing applications, determining acceptability of risk in accordance with Company guidelines and practices in order to make the appropriate underwriting decisions. Applying underwriting guidelines and appetite to risk selection and pricing.
- Keeping current on state/territory issues and regulations, industry activity and trends and freely shares information with others. Negotiating with agents to reach positive and profitable outcomes.
- Developing a diverse book of business consisting of varied inland marine and property classes of business, risk size and complexity. Analyzing quality, quantity, and profitability of risks underwritten and preparing reports for management review.
- Assisting in the management of the Inland Marine and Property business to achieve the goals and objectives established. Ensuring continued profitable growth.
- You may provide guidance and assistance to other underwriters and to other functional areas, particularly when related to cross-sell opportunities and providing assistance to underwriters requiring referrals due to the authority levels.
- Collaborating with management on risks exceeding authority level or requiring special handling. Evaluating underwriting performance based on financial analysis including rate, reserve adequacy, operational execution, planning and product reviews.
- Collaborating with Regional Companies in developing regional inland marine and property business plans.
- Assisting with product development in creation of innovative products and service to introduce to the market.
- Collaborating with business partners in Risk Control, Actuarial, Finance and Claims to driver profitable results and developing program opportunities.
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This position will be providing overall requirements gathering, design, development and support of build, test, and automated deployments jobs for application teams within BTS. Moving towards true continual integration with DevOps framework.
Key Accountabilities
- Demonstrates a robust understanding of all functional and technical aspects of a system
- Can produce significant new system functionality or defect resolution with minimal direction
- Creates design specifications that demonstrate an understanding of most interfacing systems and supported business processes. (can understanding business processes go to the developer/analyst)
- Routinely proposes improvements to a system to improve supportability or usability
- Can perform adequate peer review on any changes in the system
- Can be consulted to provide recommendations to solve business issues based on experience and knowledge of current technology
- Demonstrates solid development processes including code review, documentation, and unit testing
- May provide rotating on-call support of production systems
- Ensure high-performing and scalable solutions by proactively monitoring and assessing various performance metrics both pre and post-implementation
- Provide end user mentoring and training in 1-1 and small group settings
- Partner with the various subsidiaries to create a vision for future advancement of our applications
- Enforce current Change Management and SOX Policies
- Travel for this position is approximately 5-10%
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Join us as a Territory Underwriting Manager who will develop regional and local Business Strategic, Tactical and Operational plans. Execute Action Plans, develop deep agency relationships, and represents the Company locally, regionally and on a national basis. Partner with Sr. Management of the Company and Regional Companies to drive both growth and profitability. Place your mark in the development of Marine and Property strategic and tactical plans based on company plans, technological advances, and corporate plans and work within limits of authority requiring the highest degree of technical complexity and coordination. Our focus will be on complex property, marine risks and programs that will drive profitable growth.
Making an impact includes:
- Building superior distribution partnerships with agents and brokers. Developing and implements sales plans to leverage profitable business growth.
- Analyzing applications, determining acceptability of risk in accordance with Company guidelines and practices in order to make the appropriate underwriting decisions. Applying underwriting guidelines and appetite to risk selection and pricing.
- Keeping current on state/territory issues and regulations, industry activity and trends and freely shares information with others. Negotiating with agents to reach positive and profitable outcomes.
- Developing a diverse book of business consisting of varied inland marine and property classes of business, risk size and complexity. Analyzing quality, quantity, and profitability of risks underwritten and preparing reports for management review.
- Assisting in the management of the Inland Marine and Property business to achieve the goals and objectives established. Ensuring continued profitable growth.
- You may provide guidance and assistance to other underwriters and to other functional areas, particularly when related to cross-sell opportunities and providing assistance to underwriters requiring referrals due to the authority levels.
- Collaborating with management on risks exceeding authority level or requiring special handling. Evaluating underwriting performance based on financial analysis including rate, reserve adequacy, operational execution, planning and product reviews.
- Collaborating with Regional Companies in developing regional inland marine and property business plans.
- Assisting with product development in creation of innovative products and service to introduce to the market.
- Collaborating with business partners in Risk Control, Actuarial, Finance and Claims to driver profitable results and developing program opportunities.
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Our ideal candidate is someone who has a passion for pushing the limits of their actuary knowledge. This role offers more variety and exposure to the business than a typical actuarial role. An individual with the drive to lead projects, which provide meaningful insights into the business impact of changes in actuarial analyses, processes, and/or analytical methods, will thrive at MEC.
What you will do:
Project Management
- Lead actuarial project teams to provide accurate and timely analysis and communication to MEC business partners.
- Provide recommendations on actuarial projects that are well-thought-out and based on data that has been verified.
- Determine the project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule.
- Measure, monitor, and communicate progress of project(s) at clearly defined points in the process to ensure that the project(s) is delivered on time, and it meets or exceeds expectations.
- Maintain focus on key objectives and manages unit work flow to accomplish completion of complex actuarial projects, removing obstacles as necessary.
- Deliver several projects concurrently and adjust to changing priorities.
Innovation
- Champion innovative ideas in line with the corporate wide initiatives.
- Perform with innovation development groups to conduct insights as well as design outputs to their work.
- Lead and direct cross-functional programs to drive the innovative process.
- Influence strategic direction for senior leadership.
- Manage stakeholder expectations of deliverables and outcomes.
- Exercise decision-making and independent judgment while being aligned with stakeholders and management.
Teamwork
- Employ delegation skills to ensure all team members are making meaningful contributions and advancing in assuming responsibilities.
- Direct and/or assist team to provide and interpret ongoing as well as ad-hoc requests that are pertinent to evaluating the quality of our business.
- Establish clear expectations for team members and keep them accountable to those expectations.
- Promote optimal performance and desired behaviors for team through direct observation and immediate feedback.
Business Acumen
- Utilize advanced knowledge in actuarial ratemaking and reserving methodologies.
- Develop appreciation of the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Gain knowledge of MEC’s insurance products, services, and terminology.
- Master core software applications, including actuarial systems, and Microsoft Office Suite.
Company Perks:
- Tuition/training reimbursement.
- Flextime with core hours.
- Bonus structure.
- 401(k) savings plan with profit sharing.
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This position will play a key role in success of business critical projects by defining overall solution architecture focusing on all domains of architecture including non-functional domains of the solution. This role may have responsibilities for multiple programs or projects at the same time. Most project resources are responsible for a single system with regard to things like re-usability, risk reduction, and simplicity. This role is responsible for representing these same types of interests with the overall solution in mind while balancing against the delivery timelines and budget. This role may also be pulled in to take on the responsibility of new technology research and implementations. This role will also maintain and socialize the long term roadmap and provide long term strategy for different technology platforms at different times.
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Position Summary/Overview
This position will serve as a technology underwriting specialist in an assigned region delivering profitable growth and excellent community, employee, and customer relations. Our ideal candidate will have commercial technology or commercial middle market experience.
Main Responsibilities Include:
Underwriting Management
- Responsible for generating profit, growth and retention results within assigned territory
- Lead business initiatives for territory which include generating business opportunities, pricing, premium retention, coverage analysis, loss control needs, claim service needs and account stewardship
- Manage underwriting staff within territory
- Mentor underwriting support staff and operations staff
- Establish business plans on an annual basis for assigned territory
- Product training for underwriting staff
- Follow established pricing, underwriting and documentation protocol as set forth by underwriting management
Agency Management
- Agency management including planning and driving results
- Target new producer partner agencies within assigned territory
- Lead sales and marketing efforts within assigned territory
- Product training for producers
- Occasional overnight travel
- May perform other functions as assigned.