Commercial Lines Underwriter

Who are we?

Western National Insurance Group is a private mutual insurance company with over 120 years of experience serving customers' property-and-casualty insurance needs in the Midwestern, Northwestern, and Southwestern United States. Known as “The Relationship Company®,” we define success as a measure of the relationships we’ve built over time. In everything that we do, we know that delivering a friendly and helpful interaction makes for a better experience for everyone involved. That’s the power of “nice”. At Western National, nice is something we work to bring to every person and organization with whom we partner and serve.

Does this opportunity interest you?

Western National is seeking a Commercial Lines Underwriter to join our team!

The individual in this role will have the opportunity to develop a book of business by writing and retaining commercial lines accounts through assigned agencies.

What are the responsibilities and opportunities of this role?

• Builds and maintains strong agency relationships.
• Effectively manages an agency territory to achieve established growth and profit goals.
• Uses established practices, processes, procedures, and underwriting authority level to analyze the operations and exposures of different types of risks.
• Assesses risks and exposures on new and existing business to identify opportunities to maximize assigned territory loss ratio and growth objectives.
• Executes policies within established authority level and established eligible risks.
• Applies basic knowledge of coverage / forms / symbols / endorsements per line of business.
• Applies basic knowledge of rating.
• Writes new business as defined by annual goals determined by the department.
• Applies knowledge to help solve problems of relatively limited scope and complexity.
• Consistently acts according to our customer experience standards, including responding quickly, maintaining a positive attitude, building rapport, demonstrating empathy, managing the customer’s expectations, using the proper communication channel for the situation, and taking ownership to ensure the customer’s issue is resolved.