As a strategic partner, the HR Manager will work to align and support the execution of the operating unit strategic initiatives and the talent strategy. This role collaborates closely with operating unit senior leaders, employees, and HR partners to provide advice and guidance, manage programs, and HR operations as it relates to talent-related activities. These activities include but are not limited to recruitment and selection, staff retention, performance management, talent development, compensation, and employee relations. This role will support multiple operating units.  This position reports to the VP of Human Resources.   - Provide consultation for leaders on performance management, talent development, salary administration, recognition, training gaps, employee relations, employee conduct, and policy. - Guides leaders through actions related to formal disciplinary procedures, jointly determines appropriate course of actions; reviews and provides suggestions for performance improvement plans; and ensures legal compliance with aid of VP HR and/or legal counsel, as necessary. - Identify, evaluate, and resolve employee relations issues. - Partner with cross functional teams to improve employee engagement and increase productivity and retention, including coordination of community or company events. - Supports culture building through 30/60/90 day reviews, survey administration and action plans. - Assists in the development and delivery of management and/or employee training sessions related to strategic initiatives, performance management, employee engagement, succession planning, etc. - Works with leaders to identify staffing needs, job specifications, qualifications, skills, and competencies. - Partners with recruiting on internal and external recruitment efforts for all positions. - Manage the onboarding process. Partners with hiring managers to ensure proper department on-boarding tasks. - Ensure required timely completion of I-9’s. Update I-9 verifications in HireRight as required. - Complete exit interviews and reviews data to identify trends. - Assist employees with developing personal strategies and goals including, career development, performance improvement, conflict management or communication. - Manages and updates requisition and compensation data in Workday, including one-time payments, reporting changes and promotions. - Administers the annual performance review process including leadership reporting. - Administers initial and ongoing Visa and Immigration requirements. - Proactively identifies areas for process improvement and opportunities for efficiency and innovation. - Additional duties as assigned.

This Senior Accountant will be responsible for the management of the monthly close processes, preparation of various analytic schedules on the financial results as well as the production of financial statements and supporting exhibits included in the financial reporting package.   - Monitors financial systems, procedures, and controls for accuracy, analyzes sufficiency of expense accruals and prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statement journal entries and management reports. - Prepares monthly and quarterly calculations and monitors significant financial statement items such as reinsurance, expenses (DAC, commission, etc.), and losses. - Prepares limited monthly and quarterly statutory reporting. - Prepares/Reviews internal and external reinsurance reporting requirements. - Collaborate with the FPA function in the preparation of annual financial planning forecasts and other related planning inputs and exhibits. - Prepares financial analyses and assists with special projects supporting operating units or corporate initiatives (accounting, systems, etc.) - Reviews financial accounts and prepares account reconciliations, adheres to and provides assistance with financial control (SOX) documentation, processes and procedures. - Continuous Improvement and enhanced efficiencies leveraging technology and data warehouses. - Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

Our Berkley Mid-Atlantic Executive Sales Underwriter maintains responsibility for underwriting, including growth and profitability, for an individual book of business while also maintaining the sales and territory management functions for that same book of business.  They will oversee new business as well as manage a renewal book, including risk selection, pricing, setting terms and conditions as well as handle endorsements, agency requests, loss control, audits, etc.   Detailed Areas of Focus   Underwriting - Demonstrate broad knowledge of the business, the marketplace and the company’s overall goals, objectives and performance measures through effective deliver of all products and services - Act as a referral source, within assigned authority, on coverage and pricing - Achieve profitable growth through effective use of underwriting and business skills in assigned territory - Gather and analyze information to determine risk acceptability - Recognize and advocate certain expectations to underwriting standards and create viable options - Identify critical exposures, trends, and opportunities and develop strategies to address them - Assess rate adequacy relative to exposure - Recognize and negotiate advanced coverage and pricing issues - Demonstrate advanced selling skills   Territory Management – for Assigned Territory, Participate in: - Development of territory game plan and overall strategy in unison with BMAG vision (current and future) - Agency reviews (at least quarterly) - Organize incentives (monetary or NYC events, super producer events) - Facilitate profit sharing delivery   Agency Management – for Assigned Territory, Complete: - Profit sharing updates throughout the year, with focus on next level achievement (maximize revenue) - Progress reports to plan and other incentives, monitor joint business plan - Find a niche, questioning and developing agents’ books and matching with our UW appetite - Schedule virtual and in person visits with pre-call agenda, inviting pertinent internal (and external) people - Leveraging who we are, what we do to gain elite partnership with agency and perpetuate agency to top 3 of their carrier line up   Marketing - Communication of target appetite - Distribute marketing messages that are developed and tailored to the agency - Facilitate leads and marketing to agents and/or producers   Resolution of - Product, Billing, Pricing, Relationship, Service, Claims and Automation issues by vetting problem and then bringing in the applicable partners to resolve   Internal Partnering with BMAG and other WRB companies - Provide competitor/market intel for product development - Collaborate with Sales Peers across the Berkley family of companies - Offer Solutions with everything Berkley

The Director, Line of Business Manager is responsible for profit and loss of one or more assigned lines of business.  The role will provide strategy and direction to underwriting activities and be accountable for profit and growth within the assigned lines of business.  The role also includes similar duties for one or more assigned industries within the portfolio.   - Accountable for all aspects of profit and loss for assigned line(s) of business, including monthly reports to leadership. - Partners with CUO to develop and monitor the overall plans and objectives of the assigned line(s) of business. - Responsible for portfolio management and development, which includes writing and maintaining underwriting guidelines, rules, and forms. - Implements underwriting strategies, both short-term and long-term. - Monitors results, both top line and bottom line, and takes proactive approach in actions, as needed, to maintain or improve overall results. - Guides and shapes underwriting quality assurance, price, rate and exposure monitoring, price adequacy and risk selection across assigned line(s) of business. - Responsible for training and development of profit center employees within assigned line(s) of business. - Assists in the development and implementation of long-term line(s) of business profit and growth strategies. - Monitors competition regularly with consistent feedback and keeps abreast of industry and line of business developments, particularly those which impact his or her area(s) of responsibility. - Conduct file reviews, as required, with feedback on areas of improvement. - Manage overall line(s) of business by analyzing elements including, but not limited to, loss ratio, mix of business, policy count, claim count, severity of losses, premium growth, and return on equity. - Assists with all aspects of filing, writing, and reviewing rates, rules, and filings within assigned line(s) of business and industry(s). - As required, could be called up to handle complex underwriting referrals that fall inside assigned line(s) of business. - Understands Berkley Mid-Atlantic's business, objectives, and growth strategies, including the factors that affect, contribute to, or impede its potential success. - Communicates regularly, proactively, and effectively with all staff, both as a team and individually. - Responsible for handling data calls and reinsurance and treaty review and report-outs. - Within assigned line(s) of business, will monitor and proactively report to leadership on emerging hazards, regulations and legal issues, filings, forms, rates, and rule changes. - Collaborates actively as a team player across other functional areas of the company including actuary, product, claims, underwriting, and sales as well as other operating units outside Berkley Mid-Atlantic.

The Senior Financial Planning Analyst will be responsible for the management of the annual planning process, including production and executing of monthly forecasts. Preparation of various analytic schedules for variance from plan and/or forecast. Providing financial analyses in support of initiatives. - Monitors financial systems, procedures, and controls for accuracy, analyzes sufficiency of expense accruals and prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statement journal entries and management reports. - Prepares monthly and quarterly calculations and monitors significant financial statement items such as reinsurance, expenses (DAC, commission, etc.), and losses. - Assists in the preparation of annual financial planning forecasts and other related planning inputs and exhibits. Provides modeling assistance to determine the impact of potential scenarios and plans. - Prepares financial analyses and assists with special projects supporting operating units or corporate initiatives (accounting, systems, etc.) - Assists in the preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting on actual vs. plan results, providing variance analysis. - Provide assistance with financial control (SOX) documentation, processes and procedures. - Development of Key Performance Indicators, Dashboards and Scorecards - Continuous Improvement and enhanced efficiencies leveraging technology and data warehouses. - Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

The Berkley Mid-Atlantic Executive Sales Underwriter maintains responsibility for underwriting, including growth and profitability, for an individual book of business while also maintaining the sales and territory management functions for that same book of business.  S/he will oversee new business as well as manage a renewal book, including risk selection, pricing, setting terms and conditions as well as handle endorsements, agency requests, loss control, and audits.  Key functions include but are not limited to: - Demonstrate broad knowledge of the business, the marketplace and the company’s overall goals, objectives and performance measures through effective deliver of all products and services - Act as a referral source, within assigned authority, on coverage and pricing - Development of territory game plan and overall strategy in unison with BMAG vision (current and future) - Leveraging who we are, what we do to gain elite partnership with agency and perpetuate agency to top 3 of their carrier line up - Product, Billing, Pricing, Relationship, Service, Claims and Automation issues by vetting problem and then bringing in the applicable partners to resolve - Internal Partnering with BMAG and other WRB companies providing competitor/market intel for product development and collaborating with Sales Peers across the Berkley family of companies offering solutions with everything Berkley

The Senior Underwriter builds dynamic relationships, maintains a strong distribution channel, drives written premium growth, and maximizes renewal retention while delivering a high degree of customer satisfaction within our footprint of Independent Agencies.    Key functions will include but are not limited to:    - Strengthens relationships and educates agents within agency plan to maximize opportunities and achieve profitable growth. - Achieves new business premium, renewal premium retention and rate change objectives - Within company guidelines and granted underwriting authority, evaluates new and renewal information to determines risk acceptability terms/conditions to be quoted, and priced. - Utilizes various underwriting tools to: determine acceptable risk characteristics; determine accurate exposure classifications; set adequate property limits to accomplish appropriate insurance to value and rate and quote business to agents - Orders and reviews inspections to confirm accounts written are consistent with preliminary underwriting information and take action when the inspection reveals unacceptable risk characteristics. - Determines if facultative reinsurance is needed and if so, factors reinsurance cost in gross pricing, completes cession procedures; documents file and follows established workflow procedure to ensure proper reporting / accounting.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Actuarial Pricing Director to join our team! In this role, you will report to the VP Chief Actuary of Berkley Mid-Atlantic Insurance Group. You will drive rate reviews, participate in the company’s planning processes, and provide analysis and tools that support profitable growth.   - Collaborate effectively within the Actuarial department and with the company’s leaders to deliver insightful and timely analyses. - Recommend rate changes based on portfolio performance and market environment. - Lead state and product rate reviews and filings by interpreting bureau rate changes. - Drive the actuarial component of the company’s planning processes. - Identify, retrieve, and prepare internal and external data in support of actuarial analysis. - Interpret and implement advanced analytics models for pricing and other applications. - Identify segments with profitable growth potential or underperforming segments and propose strategy adjustments.

The Berkley Mid-Atlantic Executive Sales Underwriter maintains responsibility for underwriting, including growth and profitability, for an individual book of business while also maintaining the sales and territory management functions for that same book of business.  They will oversee new business as well as manage a renewal book, including risk selection, pricing, setting terms and conditions as well as handle endorsements, agency requests, loss control, audits, etc.    

As a Senior Underwriter, you will obtain and evaluate information needed to underwrite and price new business, renewals and service endorsements on individual policies within your delegated level of authority.  This role works with an underwriting team and our agency partners and offers the opportunity to learn and grow within commercial underwriting. - Manage a territory of select, independent agents. Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group strives to build strong, deep relationships with a limited number of agencies in each territory.  - Develop and maintain positive agency relationships. - Partner with assigns territory sales managers to support customer needs and drive value. - Examine new business to determine if risk meets established eligibility guidelines - Stay abreast of competitor actions and pricing in assigned territory, make recommendations to ensure BMAG’s Small Commercial product offering continues to be relevant and differentiated in the market. - Evaluate prospective profitability of potential business submissions and make justifiable pre-qualification decisions - Train, and advocate for BMAG agency collaboration tools like our quote systems, agency portal and online endorsement capabilities - Utilize various underwriting tools to determine acceptable risk characteristics, determine accurate exposure classifications, set adequate property limits to accomplish appropriate insurance to value, and rate and quote business agents. - Other duties as required