Location: Cedar Rapids,IA, USA
UFG is looking for a Property and Inland Marine Manager to join our team who will be held accountable for the organization's inland marine P&L and share in accountability for the property P&L, ensuring results achieve growth and profitability objectives. The individual in this role will work with the Property Leader in efforts within specialty, middle market, small business, inland marine, and other related disciplines to ensure appropriate risks are taken within the portfolio. This role has responsibility over marine technical discipline, which includes providing consultation to staff and business partners, identifying needs for technical training and review of complex risks. The individual in this role will proactively provide technical guidance and educational training opportunities to both property and marine underwriters to ensure disciplined underwriting.
Responsibilities:
* Assume strategic responsibility and P&L accountability for the inland marine line of business. Share in this same responsibility with the Property Leader for property, including equipment breakdown.
* Review property/marine referrals based on technical complexity, market segmentation strategy, market appetite and collaborating with business leaders in analytics, product development, risk management, claims groups and region leadership to ensure alignment.
* Responsible for adhering to property catastrophe aggregation management strategy and execution across all business units and geographies.
* Provide guidance on acceptability on the most complex underwriting risks.
* Provides technical expertise and is a resource to region managers, underwriting managers, supervisors and underwriters. The ability to communicate complex property/inland marine concepts clearly.
* May conduct research for underwriters on specific classes of business, operations, or any other technical subject related to property/marine.
* Maintains current knowledge of regulatory environment and emerging issues within inland marine.
* Collaborates with internal partners to develop guidelines and deliver training to drive property/inland marine expertise across the Underwriting and Risk Control organizations.
* Lead collaborative and effective teams as assigned; analyzing and resolving problems, and executing team strategy.
* Develop key analytic insights, leading indicators, and profitability drivers through internal and external research for the inland marine line of business.
* Monitor the mix of business for the inland marine portfolio, identifying shifts in the mix, evaluate performance and uncover areas of opportunity for growth through expanded appetite and profitability improvement.
* Collaborate with all stakeholders involved in the execution of property/marine related deliverables, upholding the highest standards of transparency and proactive communication.
* Contribute to the evaluation of the competitive landscape to ensure sustainability of the property/inland marine books of business and makes recommendations to improve competitiveness.
* Act as a subject matter expert, maintain a thorough knowledge of company Product features and benefits as well as industry trends.
* Develop and maintain strong agency relationships with key customers to ensure positive and profitable outcomes on complex accounts.
* Other duties include delivering an effective human capital strategy, prioritizing employee development and providing accountability and resources for employees to achieve organizational goals.
Qualifications:
Education:
* Bachelors degree in a related field required.
Certifications/Designations:
* CPCU designation preferred.
* Employees are expected to participate in continuing education throughout their careers.
Experience:
* 8+ years total experience in property/casualty insurance, with a background in property/marine risks.
* 5+ years of management experience preferred.
Working Conditions:
* General office environment
* Up to 20% travel including overnight stays.
* Regular work duties may require work outside of business hours.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
* Exhibits exceptional technical skills as well as above average interpersonal skills & training ability.
* Experience with large, complex and middle market risks.
* A visionary, solutions-oriented leader with the ability to identify, analyze and resolve problems, motivate and develop staff, and execute team strategy.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Strong influencing and decision-making skills.
* Ability to think strategically with supporting analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with ambiguity.
* Expert knowledge of first-party lines of business, including Property and Marine coverages, including associated underwriting technical processes and concepts.
* Demonstrated successful ability to organize and prioritize work to ensure timely deadlines.
* Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to effectively build relationships across all levels of the organization.
* Experience influencing and collaborating at the executive level.
* Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision.