Commercial Lines Consulting Underwriter (hybrid/remote)

It’s ok if you don’t meet every requirement. At Grange, we prioritize creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. If you're enthusiastic about this role but your previous experience only partially matches qualifications in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. We believe in fostering growth and providing opportunities for continuous learning and development of skills as you progress in your career with us.

Summary: This position is responsible for providing guidance to the assigned organization in the underwriting and technical execution of its business to achieve planned profit and growth objectives.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Responsible for providing guidance to CL management and underwriters for risk selection, pricing and underwriting complex risks, portfolios and/or products within their specialty or expertise.
• Responsible for translating CL underwriting goals into action plans subsequently collaboratively ensuring implementation and execution across the underwriting teams.
• Responsible for the continued refinement of Property/Casualty growth, policies, guidelines, processes, and pricing. This position is responsible for the top-line growth and loss ratio performance for their product area(s).
• Assess areas of opportunity for profitable growth. In conjunction with Chief Underwriter and underwriting leadership, develop underwriting and product plans to capitalize on growth, opportunities, and profit.
• Proactively monitor lines of business results, and act quickly and effectively to growth and profit challenges.
• Serve as the technical expert and referral underwriter for respective Casualty and Property products including providing guidance to product group on identification of underwriting requirements for systems that affect underwriting process and outcomes.
• Develop and deliver technical training that assures skill gaps are identified and improved upon. Assure underwriter and underwriting leadership expertise level matches our business needs.
• Refine and implement a multi-year growth, underwriting and product agenda for all responsible product lines. Assure underwriting practices match the same.
• In conjunction with Actuarial, implement pricing modeling and monitor performance to model. Assure underwriting actions align with the model by measuring and monitoring pricing by individual, territory, state and countrywide. Share findings and observations with Underwriting leadership on an ongoing basis. Recommend changes as appropriate.
• Assumes primary role in underwriting technical audits and quality assurance reviews to evaluate the quality of risk selection, pricing and compliance with Company policy.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Company:

Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience. Ten or more years of commercial lines underwriting or product experience, including experience with larger brokers and agents. Strong communication, negotiation, training and analytical skills needed. Management experience a plus.

About Us:

Grange Insurance Company, with $3.2 billion in assets and more than $1.5 billion in annual revenue, is an insurance provider founded in 1935 and based in Columbus, Ohio. Through its network of independent agents, Grange offers auto, home and business insurance protection. Grange Insurance Company and its affiliates serve policyholders in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin and holds an A.M. Best rating of "A" (Excellent).

Grange understands that life requires flexibility. We promote geographical diversity, allowing hybrid and remote options and flexibility in work hours (role dependent). In addition to competitive traditional benefits, Grange has also created unique benefits based on employee feedback, including a cultural appreciation holiday, family formation benefits, compassionate care leave, and expanded categories of bereavement leave.

Who We Are:

We are committed to an inclusive work environment that welcomes and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We hire great talent from various backgrounds, and our associates are our biggest strength. We seek individuals that represent the diversity of our communities, including those of all abilities. A diverse workforce's collective ideas, opinions and creativity are necessary to deliver the innovative solutions and service our agency partners and customers need. Our core values: Be One Team, Deliver Excellence, Communicate Openly, Do the Right Thing, and Solve Creatively for Tomorrow.

Our Associate Resource Groups help us create a more diverse and inclusive mindset and workplace. They also offer professional and personal growth opportunities. These voluntary groups are open to all associates and have formed to celebrate similarities of ethnicity/race, nationality, generation, gender identity, and sexual orientation and include Multicultural Professional Network, Pride Partnership & Allies, Women's Group, and Young Professionals.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, created in 2016, is focused on professional development, networking, business value and community outreach, all of which encourage and facilitate an environment that fosters learning, innovation, and growth. Together, we use our individual experiences to learn from one another and grow as professionals and as people. 

We are committed to maintaining a discrimination-free workplace in all aspects, terms and conditions of employment and welcome the unique contributions that you bring from education, opinions, culture, beliefs, race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, pregnancy, veteran status, and citizenship.

Grange Enterprise is proud to be part of the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion™, a national initiative of more than 1400 CEOs working for the advancement of diversity and inclusion within the workplace.