[Hiring] Senior Consultant, Brokerage Property Underwriting @Nationwide

Role Description

If you’re passionate about helping people protect what matters most to them at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, as well as innovating and simplifying processes and operations to provide the best customer value, then Nationwide’s Property and Casualty team could be the place for you! This position is for E&S Brokerage Property.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Shared/Layered Property technical expertise / industry knowledge
• Minimum of 8 years of underwriting experience
• Relationship management experience with large wholesale brokers
• Experience managing individual property portfolio to maximize top and bottom-line growth
• Strong attention to detail and strong desk management and prioritization skills
• Data analytics and business insights skillset as related to market/competitive research
• Experience with broad range of occupancies and account sizes
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

To best support our broker partners across the territory, we are seeking candidates located in the Western U.S. This role includes travel throughout the region for in-person broker meetings and relationship-building activities. This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree preferred. Equivalent work experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Completion of general insurance courses such as CPCU, CIC, AU, ARM, CPIW, CWIS, or ASLI is preferred.
• Eight years CL underwriting experience handling large or complex accounts, excess & surplus lines experience preferred.

Requirements

• Knowledge of complex CL underwriting policies, practices and procedures, insurance law and underwriting/marketing principles and techniques.
• Knowledge of Standard Bureau Rating plans and concepts such as catastrophe management.
• Knowledge of Alternative rating methods and plans and pricing theory.
• Knowledge of Treaty & Facultative reinsurance.
• Knowledge of regulatory issues, the wholesale broker system, market conditions and company operations.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally, and in writing, inter personally with individuals and groups via telephone, tele/video conference, fax, e-mail and in person.
• Demonstrates advanced negotiation skills and ability to work as a project lead.
• Ability to analyze highly complex insurance risks to determine acceptability including policy language, various commercial and alternative rating plans and methodologies, reinsurance.
• Ability to devise business solutions to complex problems, implement the most appropriate, and monitor the effectiveness.
• Ability to train and mentor all levels of underwriters, underwriting assistants and interns.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision
• Life insurance, short and long term disability coverage
• Paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
• Nine paid holidays
• 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
• 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• Company-paid pension plan
• Business casual attire