Personal Lines Underwriter
Position type: Contract
Location: West GTA
Category: Insurance
Years of experience: 3-5
Date posted: August 30, 2012
Reference number: WAT030803
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Required Experience
The successful candidate will underwrite and price new business applications; endorsements and renewals of personal lines products within set binding authority to grow and maintain a profitable book.
Responsibilities includes:
- Maintain policies and ensure all policies are issued within service standards with the appropriate wordings, schedules, and certificates attached.
- Provide exceptional customer service by answering telephone inquiries, making outgoing calls, respond to emails and/or faxes as may be required.
- Manage and achieve excellent working relationships with brokers and agents.
- Works collaboratively with internal clients and team members to resolve agent, broker, claims, pricing and accounting issues.
- Track and produce daily, weekly and monthly production activity reports.
Required experience:
- Three to five (3 - 5) years experience in underwriting personal lines auto.
- Strong understanding of insurance policy wordings and the ability to make sound business decisions based on those wordings.
- Ability to effectively set priorities to meet deadlines.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems.
- A team player with a positive attitude to achieve excellent service delivery.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
- Solid knowledge of computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point.
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Educational Requirements
The successful candidate will possess excellent organizational, customer service, communication, keyboarding, and data entry skills as well as computer proficiency including but not limited to Microsoft Office and/or XP software. A High School Diploma or equivalent is required. Completion or working towards completion of CIP designation is preferable.
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