Walnut Creek, CA

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The Underwriting Manager position will encompass responsibility for product line underwriting excellence, producer management, and underwriting talent development. This person should have broad technical expertise with superior leadership skills across Property lines of business.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Execute USA strategy and achieve budgeted metrics (GWP, Rate Adequacy, Commission, and other Portfolio Metrics) as set forth by product line management.
• Work closely with the Property CUO of Americas to develop business strategies for future success.
• Maintain extensive contacts with wholesale brokers as well as maintaining visibility in the insurance community thereby reinforcing AXA XL’s brand.
• Manage insured and producer relationships throughout the assigned territory.
• Maintain visibility in the marketplace by aggressively marketing to wholesale brokers.
• Underwrite difficult, complex accounts and resolve issues beyond the ability of underwriting staff and within prescribed authority level.
• Provide technical training to underwriting staff to increase skill levels and authority.
• Lead and mentor a group of underwriters to engage, inspire and motivate them in the work they do and in developing their careers.
• Review, monitor, and act as a referral underwriter to ensure accounts are underwritten according to company policies and procedures for Property.
• Assist in developing, promoting, and communicating Company goals and values to staff including key behaviors, profitability, production and service issues.
• Collaborate closely with Actuarial, Claims, Regulatory, and other departments to achieve underwriting excellence.
• Support and drive AXA XL’s cross-sell objectives by understanding AXA XL’s capabilities across other lines of business and maintain open communication with colleagues in other departments.
• Work with our Enterprise Operations team to ensure timelines of work processing including policy issuance, documentation, and implementation of the Target Operating Model (TOM).

In this position, you will report directly to the Head of Property North West region.

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years US Underwriting experience – with at least 3 years in a management role
• Demonstrated strong Underwriting discipline and regulatory compliance
• Strong focus on operational execution (meeting SLAs for both timeliness and quality)
• Proven record in Change Management with strong logical skills and the courage to challenge and question processes and content
• Great sense of collaboration and working in a cross-cultural environment including Europe and India

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

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.

Our enterprise I&D mission is to become the most inspiring company to work for. We’re achieving this through our three areas of focus:

• Drive an Inclusive Culture—create a global workplace that works for everyone, with a culture that values all individuals, backgrounds and ideas, and where every colleague feels safe, valued and respected.
• Diversify Our Workforce—increase the representation of women in leadership, achieving 50% by 2023, and focus on underrepresented populations by region, positioning AXA XL as an employer of choice for all talent.
• Support Our Marketplace & Communities—support our communities and visibly and thoughtfully champion equity around the globe.

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.

The pay range for this position is ($ 118,500 – $ 233,000). Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues’ pay.