Associate Underwriter - 12 month FTC
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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What Is the Opportunity?
We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Underwriter to join our team in Dublin on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You'll be responsible for managing new business and renewals from submission through to bind, while building and maintaining relationships with brokers to deliver the right insurance solutions for customers. We're looking for someone with a background in any insurance underwriting who is detail-oriented, a confident decision-maker, and a strong communicator.
Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion.
What Will You Do?
With support, manage the profitability, growth, and retention of an assigned portfolio comprised of routine accounts across most of our products.
With support, underwrite and negotiate routine risks to minimise risk and maximise profitability, including Mid Term Adjustments (MTAs).
Develop your portfolio management, ensuring key performance indicators are consistently achieved and you actively target new business and retention.
Take corrective action in collaboration with your Manager / Team based on identified risk characteristics.
Identify and capture opportunities to write additional lines of business using knowledge of products, risk characteristics and appetite.
Proactively utilise various technology platforms to quote and bind risk efficiently.
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 brokers by phone, email or other communication channels to market and sell Travelers products to write and retain accounts consistent with our risk appetite. Must be able to travel to meetings.
Execute submission, quotes and renewals with guidance from your manager and working in partnership with the sales team.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
- Leaving Certificate or similar qualification.
- Knowledge: Some knowledge of products, the regulatory environment, and the local insurance market.
- Analytical/Critical thinking: Critical thinking skills with the ability to underwrite, market products, identify financial challenges, and analyse available information to make decisions in alignment with our risk appetite.
- Communication/Influence: Communication skills with the ability to negotiate with agents and brokers.
- Inclusion: Ability to work with people from different backgrounds, experiences, cultures, races, etc. and views those differences as assets to be leveraged to accomplish business goals and objectives.
- Industry / Competitor Analysis: Review competitor press releases, and industry trade press for helpful insights.
- Project Management: Participate in projects that involves the implementation of non-complex, routine business and regulatory changes relating to the enhancement, maintenance or introduction of new products.
What is a Must Have?
- Some prior related insurance experience.
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.
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.
Company at a glance
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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