About this role
Who Are We?
Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
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Compensation Overview
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Salary Range
$70,400.00 - $116,200.00Target Openings
What Is the Opportunity?
As an underwriter, you will have a dynamic role that blends evaluating and analyzing financial and business risk, building relationships, and selling and negotiating with clients, agents, and brokers.
This role is part of the Professional Liability team which protects against liability claims for negligence and errors and omissions in the performance of professional services for design professionals, accounting firms, law firms, real estate professionals, and miscellaneous professional firms. Team members work in a fast-paced environment that analyzes complex data related to the professional firm's expertise and experience, financial performance, risk management, and claim history. The coverage provided is Professional Liability/Errors and Omissions Liability.
As an Account Underwriter, Professional Liability, you will build relationships with agents and brokers to provide insurance or surety solutions to customers through various communication and collaboration platforms such as email, phone, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and limited in-person engagements. You will work closely with assigned Account Executive(s) and enterprise partners to analyze and evaluate risk to achieve business goals within an assigned book of business.
As an Account Underwriter, you are decisive, detail-oriented, and are learning to build relationships internally and externally to drive results. As you develop the ability to assess risk and sell our products, you will contribute to the profitability and success of Travelers.
What Will You Do?
- Manage the profitability, growth, and retention of a typically smaller assigned book of business largely composed of existing accounts.
- Underwrite and negotiate routine customer accounts to minimize risk and maximize profitability.
- Partner with leadership to execute business unit underwriting strategies across your book of business to achieve profit and growth objectives.
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with internal partners within the business unit and across the enterprise to identify cross-selling opportunities.
- Foster and maintain relationships with external partners through regular touchpoints and engagement. Travel to such touchpoints may be requested on a limited basis.
- Learn to identify and capture new business opportunities using consultative marketing and sales skills.
- Collaborate with assigned Account Executive(s) to execute agency, region, and group sales plans with guidance from management.
- Complete underwriting support activities for assigned agents on a limited basis.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
- Bachelor’s degree.
- One to three years of applicable underwriting experience.
- Working knowledge of products, the regulatory environment, and local market conditions.
- Critical thinking skills with the ability to underwrite, market products, identify financial challenges, and analyze available information to make decisions in alignment with our risk appetite.
- Communication skills with the ability to negotiate with agents and brokers.
What is a Must Have?
- One year of related professional experience.
What Is in It for You?
- Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
- Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
- Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
- Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
- Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
Employment Practices
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.
Other facts
About Travelers
Travelers provides insurance coverage to protect the things that are important to you – your home, your car, your valuables and your business. We have been around for more than 170 years and have earned a reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry because we take care of our customers, agents, brokers, communities and each other.
Every day, our approximately 30,000 employees and 13,500 independent agents and brokers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland help provide peace of mind to our customers.
Our expertise and focus on innovation have made us an industry leader and the only property casualty company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Our history of advancements has propelled our company, and our industry, to deliver higher standards – from writing the first auto and space travel policies to founding the Travelers Institute for public policy and launching a hybrid car discount.
By minimizing risk, preventing loss and helping our customers prepare for the unknown, Travelers’ comprehensive products and services enable individuals and businesses to feel confident and secure about the future.
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What you'll do
- As an Account Underwriter, you will manage the profitability, growth, and retention of an assigned book of business while underwriting and negotiating customer accounts. You will build relationships with agents and brokers to provide insurance solutions and collaborate with internal partners to achieve business goals.
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