Since 2008, Great American's Environmental Division has offered an exclusive focus on environmental insurance solutions to a wide variety of commercial customers. The Division offers a complete portfolio of environmental insurance products, including contractor's and fixed premises pollution liability insurance products.
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities
- Has responsibility for risk selection/rejection, pricing, retention, growth, and profitability per divisional objectives for renewal and new business opportunities.
- Uses independent judgment and initiative to support business goals.
- Maintains a high level of customer service.
- Analyzes coverage and limit requests and decides what terms to offer.
- Prices business in accordance with company guidelines.
- Assesses risk quality and compliance within company guidelines and initiates appropriate loss prevention actions.
- Reviews submission documents including Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and other environmental reports, consults online resources and liaises with in-house risk control and other colleagues to support underwriting decisions.
- Works with legal department to manuscript policy language.
- Negotiates with brokers on pricing and coverage.
- Develops and maintains effective business relationships with internal and external customers/coworkers in order to attract and retain profitable business.
- Visits agents, brokers, and producers nationwide in order to retain existing accounts, build and maintain business relationships, and develop new relationships in support of divisional objectives.
- Interprets, explains, and markets products and services.
- Develops creative solutions for new opportunities.
- Attends and participates in Division events, broker appreciation events, industry conferences.
- Applies underwriting rules and guidelines, rating manual rules, and insurance laws and regulations.
- Actively participates in daily collaboration meetings, shares knowledge and experience with others and provides guidance and assistance to lower level associates.
- May have responsibility for performance and coaching of staff and may have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development, and performance management for direct reports.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- Field of Study: Environmental, Business or other related discipline.
- Experience: Generally, 5-7 years of related environmental underwriting experience.