Underwriter

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Summary: This Underwriter role involves working with agents and carriers to secure specialized insurance coverage, managing new and renewal accounts, and cultivating business relationships. Highlights: 1. Collaborative and entrepreneurial team environment 2. Opportunity to design innovative solutions and push boundaries 3. Culture celebrating ownership, curiosity, and high performance Apply Now Introduction At RPS, we don’t just embrace bold ideas, we make them happen. We’re a team of entrepreneurs, big-picture thinkers, and passione experts who thrive on possibility. Every day, we collabore across teams, challenge convention, and push boundaries to design innovive solutions for our clients. With access to top-red carriers and a dynamic marketplace, we bring stregy and creivity together to deliver wh others might call impossible. Here, every voice counts, every perspective mters, and every challenge is an opportunity to grow. You’ll be supported by a culture th celebres ownership, curiosity, and high performance, where you’re trusted to do your best work and encouraged to keep learning along the way. Overview Breckenridge Insurance,now a part of Gallagher, offers ready-access to a team of collaborive experts th solve problems for independent agents and brokers nionally. We are equally committed to our global carrier partners and sound underwriting practices to deliver competitive, smart coverage solutions. Our team is extremely specialized, passione and highly invested in each one of our partnerships with insurance agents, brokers and carriers. If you’re interested in a refreshing, bureaucracy-free environment where we celebre and recognize diverse employees, look no further.  For more informion on Breckenridge, visit our website www.breckis.com.   As part of Gallagher, a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting, you’ll be joining a team th’s passione about helping individuals and organizion.   Breckenridge Insurance has an exciting career opportunity for an Underwriter. The Underwriter is responsible for working with wholesale and/or retail agents and carriers to obtain specialized insurance coverage for insureds.  The Underwriter will meet growth, profit and production initiives by developing positive and productive business relionships with retail agents, producers, carriers, co-workers and others. How you'll make an impact Manage a book of new and renewal accounts within assigned territory by evaluing the viability of accounts through opportunity assessment and requesting informion from retail agents as needed to ensure a thorough and accure review of accounts. Underwrite accounts based on designed contract authorities and/or submit risks to carriers to consider risks outside of authority Review requests to bind coverage to ensure accuracy before processing. Set and tain goals for book management including but not limited to, production, agency visits, product updes, collection issues, hit rios, legal environment, market changes. Manage and cultive existing relionships with business partners (retailer and carrier based) to secure and expand recurring revenue streams. Use underwriting discipline to manage loss rios based on carrier expections. Provide timely and accure monthly and quarterly forecasting to management. Participe in and support an interdependent cross sell environment. Provide effective communicion, supervision, and development of support staff, including performance reviews and salary recommendions. Participe in recruiting efforts of personnel such as new underwriters and support staff. Manage the day-to-day efforts of support staff and ensure smooth functioning, cohesive production units, including reviewing and approving expenses for direct reports. Implement and enforce policies and procedures of the organizion. Effectively offer solutions to business challenges inside area of focus. Maintain increasing knowledge of insurance industry markets, products, and legal environments, via continuing educion, seminars, and self-study, to provide a value-added service to producers. Participe in industry trade associion events such as Target Markets, NAPSLO, AAMGO, PLUS, etc. Other duties or projects as assigned.     Compension:   The target salary range for this position is $65,000 to $75,000 (US Dollar) annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s educion, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market da. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic locion. Remote work environment flexibility.    About You Minimum of 5 years of reled experience required. Bachelor's degree in reled field preferred. Highly developed problem solving and solution-design skills; strong written and verbal communicion skills. Demonstred leadership through client support and advocacy skills, as well as the mentoring and guidance of more junior employees. Highly proficient in use of Microsoft Office or similar software, including spreadsheet and presention software. Skilled in use of agency management software with the ability to quickly learn new systems and processes.     #LI-CS4 Compension and benefits We offer a competitive and comprehensive compension package. The base salary range represents the anticiped low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compension will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, educion, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, gre teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.  Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve: Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one! Life and accident insurance 401(K) and Roth options Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA) Educional expense reimbursement Paid parental leave Other benefits include: Digital mental health services (Talkspace) Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function) Training programs Gallagher Thrive program – eleving your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing Charitable mching gift program And more... **The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.   We value inclusion and diversity Click Here to review our U.S. Eligibility Requirements Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organizion. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest. Gallagher believes th all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discriminion by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy stus), sexual oriention, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital stus, parental stus, age, nional origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic informion, veteran or military stus, citizenship stus, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, ste, or local laws. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relionship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compension, benefits, layoff, and terminion. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodions to known physical or mental limitions of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodion would impose an undue hardship on the operion of our business. Apply Now