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At AXA XL we provide dedicated expertise to solve risk management challenges for large contractors & deliver unique solutions, significant capacity and diverse construction experience. Our Construction Primary Casualty team offers Workers Compensation, General Liability, and Automobile coverage on a primary basis and project specific primary basis to General Contractors, Construction Managers, Trade Contractors and Project Owners.
Arising out of growth, AXA XL North America Construction underwriting team is looking to add a Texas or Illinois based Primary Casualty underwriter to their Primary Casualty team.
Using your in-depth underwriting expertise, you will tailor high touch effective solutions for our current and prospective clients partnering with dedicated industry experts who have an average of 15+ years of construction industry risk management experience.
DISCOVER your opportunity
What will your essential responsibilities include?
• Reviewing submissions including applications, policy wording, inspection reports, loss runs, and financial reports while conducting appropriate research to determine degree of risk for each account.
• Working with agents and brokers on targeting accounts which are best in class contractors
• Calculating appropriate risk premiums using various guaranteed cost and loss sensitive options.
• Proactively advising, assisting, servicing and following up with clients on insurance and risk management matters.
• Effective relationship management with customers and brokers.
• Controlling timely implementation of new and renewed accounts according to quality standards.
• Working closely with claims and risk engineering team to provide value added services to prospects and clients.
• Negotiating and working on facultative reinsurance transactions as needed
• Working with the other underwriters in team on cross marketing goals and objectives.
In this role you will report to the Underwriting Manager - Construction.
SHARE your talent
SHARE your talent
We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
• At least 3 to 4 years of Commercial Underwriting Experience.
• In-depth underwriting expertise as it relates to solutions for construction managers, general contractors, trade contractors, to contribute to the underwriting of the full range of Construction accounts.
• Work independently with the ability to be an open-minded team player with a willingness to actively listen to comprehend unique circumstances that require practical and unique solutions to complex issues.
• Strong insured and broker interaction with the ability to effectively target current and prospective contacts in order to effectively promote offered products.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to work with both internal teams and external brokers as you will work in a team environment, assisting underwriters and / or deal administrators as part of their overall responsibility.
• Strong organizational, time-management and multi-tasking skills.
• Strong comprehension and work experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Bachelor's degree required with advanced education and / or professional designations including but not limited to CPCU, IIA, CRIS preferred but not required.
• Willingness to travel (approximately 25% travel as necessary).
FIND your future
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business - property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
Learn more at axaxl.com
Inclusion & Diversity
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It's about helping one another - and our business - to move forward and succeed.
Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity . AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Corporate Responsibility
At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group's purpose to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters.".
• Climate: We're reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We're developing water resilience where it is - and will be - needed most.
• Financial resilience: We're helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action:We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our "Hearts in Action" programs.
For more information, please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.
At AXA XL we provide dedicated expertise to solve risk management challenges for large contractors & deliver unique solutions, significant capacity and diverse construction experience. Our Construction Primary Casualty team offers Workers Compensation, General Liability, and Automobile coverage on a primary basis and project specific primary basis to General Contractors, Construction Managers, Trade Contractors and Project Owners.
Arising out of growth, AXA XL North America Construction underwriting team is looking to add a Texas or Illinois based Primary Casualty underwriter to their Primary Casualty team.
Using your in-depth underwriting expertise, you will tailor high touch effective solutions for our current and prospective clients partnering with dedicated industry experts who have an average of 15+ years of construction industry risk management experience.
DISCOVER your opportunity
What will your essential responsibilities include?
• Reviewing submissions including applications, policy wording, inspection reports, loss runs, and financial reports while conducting appropriate research to determine degree of risk for each account.
• Working with agents and brokers on targeting accounts which are best in class contractors
• Calculating appropriate risk premiums using various guaranteed cost and loss sensitive options.
• Proactively advising, assisting, servicing and following up with clients on insurance and risk management matters.
• Effective relationship management with customers and brokers.
• Controlling timely implementation of new and renewed accounts according to quality standards.
• Working closely with claims and risk engineering team to provide value added services to prospects and clients.
• Negotiating and working on facultative reinsurance transactions as needed
• Working with the other underwriters in team on cross marketing goals and objectives.
In this role you will report to the Underwriting Manager - Construction.
SHARE your talent
SHARE your talent
We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
• At least 3 to 4 years of Commercial Underwriting Experience.
• In-depth underwriting expertise as it relates to solutions for construction managers, general contractors, trade contractors, to contribute to the underwriting of the full range of Construction accounts.
• Work independently with the ability to be an open-minded team player with a willingness to actively listen to comprehend unique circumstances that require practical and unique solutions to complex issues.
• Strong insured and broker interaction with the ability to effectively target current and prospective contacts in order to effectively promote offered products.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to work with both internal teams and external brokers as you will work in a team environment, assisting underwriters and / or deal administrators as part of their overall responsibility.
• Strong organizational, time-management and multi-tasking skills.
• Strong comprehension and work experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Bachelor's degree required with advanced education and / or professional designations including but not limited to CPCU, IIA, CRIS preferred but not required.
• Willingness to travel (approximately 25% travel as necessary).
FIND your future
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business - property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
Learn more at axaxl.com
Inclusion & Diversity
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It's about helping one another - and our business - to move forward and succeed.
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity . AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Corporate Responsibility
At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group's purpose to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters.".
• Climate: We're reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We're developing water resilience where it is - and will be - needed most.
• Financial resilience: We're helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action:We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our "Hearts in Action" programs.
For more information, please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.
