12 underwriter jobs found in Cedar Rapids, IA

The Underwriting Center Underwriter will underwrite Middle Market and Construction renewal business, deploying effective account management while fostering strong relationships with agency partners.  This role is responsible for providing technical underwriting expertise through timely and streamlined processes to best serve agents and policyholders. This role underwrites renewals and services accounts to primarily manage UFG’s Middle Market and Construction business. Responsibilities:   Profitably underwrite renewal business through risk selection, pricing, contractual integrity, and account management, in accordance with delegated authority, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Develop, analyze, and evaluate information and exposure to loss.   Document assigned files with underwriting thought process. Properly classify and price risk commensurate with exposures and controls. Proactively identify and execute opportunities to up sell and cross-sell UFG...

UFG is looking for a  Sr. Production Underwriter  to join our Great Lakes Region in a multi-line, multi-industry opportunity.  In this role you will be responsible for attracting and underwriting middle market business, deploying effective account management while fostering strong working relationships with agency partners. This role executes underwriting strategy to achieve profit and premium plans. The Sr. Production Underwriter will handle a renewal book in their territory as assigned. This role assists with the resolution of escalated issues, and mentors and coaches team members. While this is a remote work opportunity, the ideal candidate should reside in one of the following metropolitan areas within the Great Lakes Region: Minnesota, Illinois, or Indiana. Responsibilities:   Profitably underwrite complex new and renewal business through risk selection, pricing, contractual integrity, and account management, in accordance with delegated authority, and ensuring...

UFG is looking for a  Sr. Production Underwriter  to join our Great Lakes Region in a multi-line, multi-industry opportunity.  In this role you will be responsible for attracting and underwriting middle market business, deploying effective account management while fostering strong working relationships with agency partners. This role executes underwriting strategy to achieve profit and premium plans. The Sr. Production Underwriter will handle a renewal book in their territory as assigned. This role assists with the resolution of escalated issues, and mentors and coaches team members. While this is a remote work opportunity, the ideal candidate should reside in one of the following metropolitan areas within the Great Lakes Region: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, or Louisville. Responsibilities:   Profitably underwrite complex new and renewal business through risk selection, pricing, contractual integrity, and account...

UFG is looking for a Reinsurance Underwriting Trainee to join the team.  In this role you will learn the fundamentals of reinsurance underwriting and will be responsible for learning reinsurance structures, buying objectives, pricing, and accounting. Instruction will be provided on the job by senior underwriting team members and cross-departmental professionals. The trainee will gain an understanding of the strategic objectives of the business unit and contribute to the acquisition of a profitable portfolio of domestic & non-U.S. reinsurance contracts. The trainee will participate in the analysis of treaty submissions and determination of their acceptability within framework of UFG underwriting policies and strategy. **Qualified candidates must be open to working 4 days in office each week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.** Responsibilities:   Gain an understanding and develop analytical skills on how to investigate, analyze differences in terms across new or...

UFG Insurance is expanding its responsive, trusted, and knowledgeable middle market / construction underwriting team. If you want to be a part of a collaborative team, thrive on cultivating strong agency partnerships, driving profitable growth, and impacting the success of the organization all while working in a remote opportunity, we want to talk with you!   What To Expect: Profitably underwrite complex new and renewal business Manage a portfolio to achieve profit and premium plans Achieve production goals through marketing and pipelining new business opportunities Represent UFG in the marketplace Collaborate with multiple business units Work with an amazing team in a remote opportunity for an organization that values the impact you make! Competitive compensation and benefits package including 401k, cash balance pension plan, discretionary time off, benefits are effective on your first day of employment.    What It Takes: 5+...

UFG is looking for an Underwriting Associate to join our Great Lakes Region.  In this role you will assist with underwriting insurance risks in accordance with the business plan and delegated authority to meet business objectives, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations and guidelines. This role is responsible for providing technical underwriting and administrative support to the underwriting staff to ensure timely and streamlined processes to best serve agents and insureds. This role works to gather information, prepare file documentation, collaborate with internal partners, and assist underwriters with agent interactions. Responsibilities: Analyze underwriting information to triage, prepare and respond to quotes, renewals and policy endorsements or inquiries as granted within assigned underwriting authority. Apply underwriting guidelines as published and ensure compliance with all company filings, rules, and regulations. Underwrite and process all...

UFG is actively seeking a Sr. Underwriting Business Process Analyst who will support Commercial Underwriting in meeting growth/profitability objectives through underwriting content, communication and process and procedure development. Within this role the analyst will also drive continuous improvement and collaborate with various areas of the organization to develop and implement solutions aligned with UFG’s goals and business strategies. This includes but is not limited to processes and procedures, tools and resources, best practices, and risk appetite guides. The Sr. Underwriting Business Process Analyst will work independently to lead and manage collaborative project teams supported by branch office employees and individuals from various roles and levels within the company to develop and deliver business solutions that support successful implementation and adoption company wide. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:   Responsible for development, maintenance...

As the Commercial Lines Sales & Distribution Director, for our UFG Regional Territory, you will be working at an awarded Top Workplace and will be responsible for cultivating UFG’s presence in the market and creating business opportunities with new agents. It is expected that the successful candidate will bring significant experience and have established relationships in the Property & Casualty Insurance North American markets. This position is responsible for helping UFG build a new distribution channel that leverages our strong foundation of existing independent agents while seeking out and creating new agency partnerships. The CL Sales & Distribution Director helps to develop and execute distribution channel strategies, builds strategic selling techniques, ensures effective processes are in place and identifies tactics to deliver profitable growth and expand market share. This role works closely in a supportive atmosphere with corporate marketing, underwriters,...

UFG's Construction Business Unit is expanding and we are looking for an AVP-Construction Underwriting  to join the team!  In this role you will be responsible for driving the underwriting strategy for the Construction Business Unit through referral support and consultation, training, and development of strategies for applicable Regions. This role operates under the leadership and guidance of the Construction Business Unit Leader and in collaboration with Line of Business Leaders, Middle Market AVPs and Regional underwriting teams. This role may also direct a team of technical experts in support of Construction strategy execution.  Responsibilities: Review referrals based on technical complexity, market segmentation strategy, market appetite and collaborating with business leaders in analytics, product development, risk management, claims groups and region leadership to ensure alignment. Responsible for adhering to the overall BU strategic direction. Provide guidance...

The Actuarial Analyst I supports the pricing of new/renewal business and development of effective premium/rating structure and strategies in support of business objectives while being introduced to basic ratemaking and insurance concepts. Calculates profit on new and renewal business. Coordinates, prepares and performs actuarial analysis. Supports Underwriters on pricing decisions.  Essential Duties & Responsibilities:   Learn and apply fundamental actuarial principles and apply when analyzing company and industry data to prepare for pricing analysis Support rating administration and stat coding on the policy administration system Support the annual profitability review process Support the review of portfolios’ historical financial performance Assist with preparation of rate and actuarial memorandums to support rate filing Support experience and rate indication studies to assess rate adequacy Support improvement efforts in order to...

UFG is looking for an action-oriented actuarial leader with strong technical skills and business acumen to advance our reinsurance pricing framework and drive excellence in our actuarial pricing practices supporting the Alternative Distribution business unit.  Alternative Distribution is a key strategic business for UFG as our third largest business unit providing profitable, diversifying results across a broad spectrum of insurance exposures and treaty structures. The individual in this role will develop and lead a team that is fully engaged with the business. The Head of Reinsurance Pricing focuses on delivering deeply analyzed pricing and underwriting recommendations and insights to better inform decision-making related to individual reinsurance treaties and overall portfolio profitability.  The role will include developing and maintaining strong relationships with the Alternative Distribution business leaders, Finance, and Reserving Actuarial partners. Initial efforts will...

UFG has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Catastrophe Modeling Analyst to work with our growing team where this individual will be analyzing property data to determine UFG’s view of the catastrophe risk. The major responsibilities will include preparing catastrophe modeling data from various data sources, modeling the data by utilizing catastrophe model/(s), communicating the outcomes and providing recommendations to the senior management team to quantify the risk. The candidate will collaborate with internal customers (direct and assumed businesses) to develop adequate pricing, ratemaking, and exposure management strategies that drive towards profitable growth of the company. Responsibilities: Collaborate with data engineers and underwriters in gathering the data needed for catastrophe modeling as well as improving data accuracy and completeness; organize, scrub and prepare the data for model ready import files using valuation tools including SQL/Excel. Analyze the...