[Hiring] Underwriter Supervisor @ProAg

Role Description

Grow your career with ProAg as an Underwriting Supervisor, where you'll lead a high-performing underwriting team across our Eastern region while helping shape the future of crop insurance. In this role, you'll combine leadership, operational excellence, and industry expertise to support agents, customers, and business partners while ensuring compliance and underwriting quality standards. You'll mentor and develop underwriters, drive process improvements, and collaborate across the organization to implement strategic initiatives that enhance customer experience. As a trusted subject matter expert, you'll tackle complex underwriting challenges, support key business decisions, and champion best practices throughout the region. If you're a relationship-focused leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about helping agriculture succeed, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

• Lead, develop, and manage underwriting staff through training, coaching, performance management, staffing decisions, workload allocation, and ongoing direction.
• Oversee underwriting operations, maintain workflow expertise, assist with business processing as needed, and support departmental staffing during absences or peak workloads.
• Evaluate underwriting information, make final underwriting determinations, and prepare and process policies and endorsements.
• Support business unit initiatives by gathering and evaluating information, planning and implementing processes and systems, and promoting strategic projects, including ProAgWorks implementation and training.
• Develop, maintain, and interpret underwriting guidelines, FCIC documentation, and Underwriting Manual (TOPE) standards to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Analyze policy data, support FCIC error resolution efforts, monitor underwriting quality metrics, and manage reporting activities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert by responding to complex inquiries and providing underwriting support to agents, policyholders, applicants, account representatives, clients, and underwriters.
• Collaborate with Sales, Claims, Compliance, Accounting, and other business partners to resolve issues, communicate underwriting policies, and support customer service excellence.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• A minimum of six years of relevant and progressive professional experience within underwriting.
• Previous agriculture or crop insurance industry experience.
• A bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Business Administration, or a related field, or the equivalent education and/or experience.
• Possess the ability to apply knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of underwriting in day-to-day and strategic work.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills with an emphasis on confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Knowledgeable of industry changes, legal updates, and technical developments related to applicable area of the Company's business to proactively respond to changing business environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package.
• Strong learning culture with ongoing development opportunities.
• Opportunities for growth and career advancement.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, with eligibility beginning on your first day of employment.
• Basic life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) plan with 6% company match.
• 20 days of PTO, three floating holidays, approximately 10 paid holidays, and volunteer time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• Access to our award-winning wellness program, including mental health services, fitness network membership, and a complimentary Headspace subscription.
• Student loan matching program.
• Employee discount program.
• An opportunity to do meaningful work and love what you do.