Senior Underwriter, Excess – Team Lead, West

Senior Underwriter, Excess – Team Lead, West

Los Angeles, CA | San Francisco, CA | USA

Our ambition is to unlock a more sustainable and prosperous tomorrow by helping businesses navigate the world’s risks. In the Americas, we’ll live up to that ambition by delivering value far beyond the insurance policies we provide. We’re confronting our clients’ risk management challenges by finding solutions that further their strategic goals and help them build more sustainable, thriving businesses.

AXA XL’ s Middle Market Excess Casualty business unit offers Umbrella and Excess Liability coverage to North American based Insureds.

DISCOVER your opportunity

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Market and solicit new business opportunities from retail broker partners.
• Analyze submission data including applications, policy wording, inspection reports, loss runs, and financial reports while conducting appropriate research to determine degree of risk for each account.
• Utilize underwriting tools including exposure, experience and industry ratings to analyze complex casualty exposure.
• Adhere to underwriting guidelines, underwriting authorities and referral requirements as needed to regional management, product management and chief underwriting officers.
• Collaborate with internal colleagues in the assessment of current and prospective risks, including actuarial, claims, legal and risk engineering.
• Pro-active service of business in conjunction with our Middle Office to ensure timely and accurate delivery of quotations, binders, policies and endorsements.
• Cross-sell with other business units to maximize deployment of AXA XL’s capital.
• Monitor trends within the Marketplace to ensure we stay aware and ahead of emerging issues.
• Contribute to regional planning through the development and execution of your own annual desk-level underwriting plan.
• Maintain compliance with all internal and external underwriting guidelines and legal requirements.
• Mentoring and motivating team underwriters, while working with underwriting assistants and other integral members of your team.
• Support training of new hires
• Assist in portfolio management regarding limit deployment, attachment point aggregation, pricing adequacy and policy terms and conditions.
• Leadership and involvement in special projects as assigned by senior management.

You will report to the Underwriting Manager.

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• In-depth underwriting expertise as it relates to solutions for umbrella/excess casualty to contribute to the underwriting of the full range of renewal and new business accounts.
• Robust insured and broker interaction in assigned geographic territory with the ability to effectively target current and prospective contacts in order to effectively promote offered products.
• The ability to travel a minimum of 15% of the time is anticipated.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to perform accurate mathematical calculations.
• Work self-directed with the ability to be an open-minded team player with a willingness to actively listen to comprehend unique circumstances that require practical and unique solutions to complex issues.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to work with both internal teams and external brokers as you will work in a team environment, assisting underwriters and / or deal administrators as part of their overall responsibility.
• Excellent collaborative skills in a fast-paced team-centric environment.
• The ability to demonstrate critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills.

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

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