At AIG, we are reimagining the way we help customers to manage risk. Join us as a Senior Underwriting Specialist, Excess Casualty to play your part in that transformation. It’s an opportunity to grow your skills and experience as a valued member of the team.

Make your mark in Excess Casualty

AIG underwriting teams help to find insurance solutions in areas including Financial Lines, Property, Casualty, Specialty Lines, Cyber, Multinational Clients, and High Net Worth individuals. We are reimagining how we help customers to manage risk, transforming our operating model, and reshaping our role responsibilities and career pathways. The goal is to unlock the full potential in each colleague – empowering our people to grow as insurance professionals and add more value to our customers and AIG.

How you will create an impact

The Senior Underwriting Specialist will work with accounts/clients which are greater in scope and complexity.  The role is expected to be involved in the management, development and training of the staff and increased responsibility for the business results of the unit. This role may be responsible for managing a team of underwriters.

• Ability to exercise judgment, negotiate and make sound business decisions effectively based on increased level of authority. 

• Renders alternative outcomes for more difficult situations and makes real-time decisions in a fast-paced environment characterized by ambiguity and change. 

• Support consistent underwriting best practices, in accordance with underwriting guidelines, to ensure rating, pricing, profitability, and structuring adequacy. 

• Responsible for assigning and managing the work of a team of underwriters. 

• Assist underwriters in executing on strategic initiatives.  Provide support and develop solutions to their issues/concerns (system, guidelines, training, reports, new project request, product amendments).   

• Assist underwriters in collaborating with Distribution, Territory Managers, and other line(s) of business underwriters to target desirable accounts and cross selling opportunities from brokers.  

• Utilize various daily reports and constant monitoring of adherence to underwriting requirements and guidelines to oversee assigned book of business. 

• Keep abreast of developments in assigned territories to determine their effect on current accounts and potential new business opportunities. 

• Work with management, the Insured, its broker and outside counsel on contract terms and conditions, as well as pricing, terms & conditions, and deal structure for complex risks. 

• Develop strong, long-term relationships with brokers and clients to profitably grow a book of business. 

• Identify the need for and manage special underwriting projects as needed. 

• Provide superior customer service to brokers and clients. 

 What you’ll need to succeed

• Minimum 7+ years of Commercial Insurance Company, Agency, or Brokerage experience. 

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university. 
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships.  

• Advanced working knowledge of the NA Casualty lines of business including product features, forms, regulatory environments, and risks etc. (i.e. Environmental, Excess or Primary Casualty, NA Auto, WC, AL, GL, DBA, Foreign Casualty) 

• Demonstrated sales, marketing, and relationship building experience. 

• Highly motivated and results oriented. 

• Ability to work in dynamic, rapidly changing environment, adapting to changing requirements and collaborating with a wide range of colleagues to quickly deliver solutions. 

• Expert with underwriting analytical tools and technology. 

Ready to take your career to the next level? We would love to hear from you.