Senior Workers' Compensation Underwriting Specialist (SBDS) Kansas City, MO

Kansas City, MO (Unknown)

$107K/yr – $179K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own territory underwriting and agency management to drive profitable growth, pricing, and retention across the field with a focus on underwriting discipline and agency development.

  • Underwrite and price new business, renewals, and endorsements within authority to grow profitable book.
  • Build and manage agency relationships and plans to expand footprint and profitability.
  • Analyze production, losses, and territory data to identify actions that improve performance and pricing accuracy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Calculates, prepares and develops premium quotations using corporate underwriting guidelines within letter of authority.
  • Determines underwriting eligibility for prospective policyholders and develops appropriate pricing for new business, renewals, and endorsements.
  • Analyzes and reviews prospective accounts for insurability and accepts or rejects within letter of authority.
  • Develops and manages agency relationships.
  • Develops agency plans in cooperation with other staff.
  • Addresses agents’ and policyholders’ concerns/needs.
  • Responsible for development of new business, profitability and retention of existing business in a given territory or region.
  • Explains and emphasizes benefit of workers’ compensation insurance products and services to customers.
  • Works with all internal departments to resolve problems and maintain company relations.
  • Participates as necessary on special committees and task forces.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, insurance or related field. Combinations of relevant education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • A minimum of seven to ten years experience in an insurance organization with demonstrated technical knowledge in one or more of the following areas: underwriting, marketing, loss prevention, auditing or similar knowledge that provide the necessary skills and abilities. Workers compensation or P&C insurance experience required .
  • Continuous learning required, as defined by the Company’s learning philosophy.

Preferred

  • Certification, or progress toward, highly preferred and encouraged.
  • MBA or other advanced degree is preferred.
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Emergent Holdings

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Emergent Holdings’ elite team makes lives, companies and communities better!Emergent Holdings is driven by a singular goal — improving the health and safety of our customers and our communities. How do we do that? We create innovative insurance products, technology solutions and services to support our key stakeholders — individuals, employers, providers and strategic partners — improving the health and safety of the people and places we serve.At Emergent Holdings, we’re inspired to create, to challenge the status quo, to think not just about what our customers need now, but what they will need in the future.We are strategic thinkers.We are industry innovators.We are market trendsetters.Together, we are Emergent Holdings.Our team of established industry experts embraces a culture of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.That means we’re focused on innovation, on leading and shaping our markets and improving health and safety for our customers and communities. For our customers, the result is a suite of solutions, services and products delivered ahead of market needs — and in anticipation of member demands.We are tireless in our pursuit of the exceptional, and our companies deliver optimal customer experiences and improve people’s lives every day, by making workplaces safer and delivering affordable, solutions-focused healthcare services.

Founded in 2000
Lansing, Michigan, USA
414 employees (10 in marketing)
55% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$107K/yr – $179K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (2% of company)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.8%
Direct
46.2%
Referral
7.8%
Social
13.3%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~414