[Hiring] Director of Transportation Underwriting @Superior Insurance Partners LLC

Role Description

The Director of Transportation Underwriter will be guiding risk selection and driving profitable growth. This individual will serve as a trusted partner to agencies and internal stakeholders while helping shape underwriting strategy, appetite, and best practices.

• Own the full underwriting lifecycle for transportation risks, including submission review, risk analysis, pricing, quote issuance, binding, endorsements, renewals, and compliance with state and federal filings.
• Exercise independent underwriting judgment and authority on complex transportation and trucking accounts.
• Manage and grow a profitable transportation portfolio, balancing rate adequacy, retention, and loss performance.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for agency partners, providing consultative underwriting guidance and market insight.
• Collaborate with leadership to refine underwriting guidelines, appetite, and pricing strategies for transportation programs.
• Partner cross-functionally with claims, risk management, compliance, and operations to ensure best-in-class policyholder outcomes.
• Support business development efforts by evaluating new opportunities, agency relationships, and program enhancements.
• Mentor junior underwriting staff as needed and contribute to process improvements and underwriting best practices.

Client & Partner Engagement

• Maintain proactive, high-touch communication with agency partners and internal leadership.
• Act as a strategic underwriting resource, helping agencies structure risks for long-term success.
• Represent SEREN at industry events, carrier meetings, and key partner engagements as appropriate.

Qualifications

• 7–12+ years of progressive Trucking / Transportation underwriting experience.
• Demonstrated success underwriting complex transportation risks within an MGA, program, or carrier environment.
• Strong working knowledge of state and federal trucking regulations (FMCSA, DOT, compliance requirements).
• Proven ability to manage portfolio performance and make sound underwriting decisions independently.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills.
• Comfortable operating in a remote, high-accountability environment.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for industry and partner events.