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About the Role
As a Senior Underwriter within the Design Professional West Region, you will play a key role in driving profitable growth and underwriting excellence across the portfolio. Working closely with the Underwriting Manager, Functional Line Underwriters, brokers, and regional business partners, you will underwrite and manage complex professional liability risks, identify growth opportunities, and support business objectives related to profitability, retention, and service delivery. Success in this role requires robust technical underwriting expertise, sound judgment, relationship management skills, and a commitment to delivering exceptional client and broker experiences.
Responsibilities
- Underwrite new and renewal business within assigned territory, assisting in achieving profitable premium and rate goals.
- Develop, maintain, and service broker relationships within the distribution model.
- Coordinate with brokers to determine their marketing and education needs supported by AXAXL Design Professional Platform.
- Work with the Underwriting Manager in furthering the AXAXL Design Professional Platform and achieving business’ financial plan.
- Interact directly with insureds, brokers, and producers to service accounts.
- Work collaboratively in a team environment, assisting underwriters, underwriting assistants, and management team.
- Train newer staff members and act as a mentor.
- Develop technical knowledge of design professional risk management to act as a resource on our product.
- Ensure high-quality service standards and compliance with all internal audit guidelines.
- Act as a representative of the company and our agents by attending internal/external company functions, agent-sponsored, and industry events.
- Meet with brokers and set annual targets, issue monthly status reports, and monitor P&L against plan.
- Proactively support brokers and market interactions which support growth, including coordinating insured events, inclusion of claims, LPED, marketing, conducting regional broker meetings, and targeting interaction(s) with ACEC, AIA.
- Meet with customers and prospects to develop relationships, deliver risk management education, and support business targets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required.
- Moderate commercial insurance experience (e.g., underwriting, claims, or insurance risk management or insurance related business development experience).
- Robust analytical, risk assessment, and relationship management skills, with the ability to evaluate complex exposures and make sound underwriting decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain outstanding insured and broker contacts.
- Ability to travel up to 20%.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Risk assessment skills
- Relationship management skills
- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent oral communication skills
- Customer service focus
- Collaborative team player
- Creative solutions and ideas for resolution
Location
- West Region
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Professional insurance designations, advanced degrees, or industry-related credentials are preferred, including but not limited to: RPLU, CPCU, CRIS, IIA, LLB, JD, BSc, or BEng.
Salary/Compensations
- USD $107,600 - $209,100
Benefits
- Enterprising retirement savings plan
- Health and wellness programs
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
About the Company
- AXA XL offers risk transfer and risk management solutions to businesses around the world.
- We combine global underwriting expertise, broad risk capacity, dedicated loss prevention services, and a collaborative approach to help our clients navigate complex risks and achieve their business objectives.
- For more than 50 years, AXA XL Design Professional has been a leading insurance provider to the architectural and engineering design industry.
- Through specialized underwriting expertise, industry-leading claims support, and innovative risk management programs, we help our clients address evolving professional liability exposures and build resilience for the 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.
- With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
Equal Opportunity
- AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
- At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success.
- That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.
- It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.
- AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.