Senior Production Underwriting Specialist - Excess/Umbrella

Senior Production Underwriting Specialist

Be here. Be great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

The Excess Liability Division specializes in offering large limits of liability to protect its clients' corporate assets from catastrophic loss. The Division offers significant capacity of up to $20 million dollars for both Lead Umbrella and Excess Liability placements. This protection is made available to companies varying in size from single location light hazard risks to a wide variety of more difficult to place manufacturers and processors.

Our Excess Liability Division is looking for a Senior Production Underwriting Specialist to join their team. Great American's culture is built on connection, shared learning, and strong relationships. To support this, employees in this role are expected to be on-site four days a week, with the flexibility to work one day remotely. Core in-office days are TuesdayThursday, with the fourth day determined by business needs. If not location near an office, this individual may work fully remote from the Eastern United States, with a preference for candidates located in Virginia or North Carolina.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

• Has responsibility for risk selection/rejection, pricing, retention, growth, and profitability per divisional objectives.
• Uses independent judgment and initiative to support business goals.
• Maintains a high level of customer service.
• Analyzes coverage and limit requests and decides what terms to offer.
• Prices business in accordance with company guidelines.
• Assesses risk quality and compliance within company guidelines and initiates appropriate loss prevention actions.
• Orders and screens miscellaneous reports needed in the rating and underwriting processes, such as Motor Vehicle reports, loss history reports, credit checks, outside inspections, loss control, etc.
• Develops and maintains effective business relationships with internal and external customers/coworkers in order to attract and retain profitable business.
• Visits agents, brokers, and producers in order to retain existing accounts, build, and maintain business relationships and develop new opportunities in support of divisional objectives.
• Interprets, explains, and markets products and services.
• Administers, applies, and may update underwriting rules and guidelines, rating manual rules and insurance laws and regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Generally, 10+ years of Casualty underwriting experience; a minimum of 3 years of Umbrella and Excess Casualty underwriting experience is highly desired.
• Effective communication and negotiation skills to build and leverage excellent customer relationships and to successfully market products and services.
• Position requires frequent day and overnight travel, more than 10% but less than 50% of time to visits agents and brokers.

Business Unit: Excess Liability

Salary Range: $126,000.00 -$150,000.00

Benefits: We offer competitive benefits packages for full-time and part-time employees*. Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness plans, parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. Full-time and eligible part-time employees also enjoy Paid Time Off and paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, and commuter benefits.

Compensation varies by role, level, and location and is influenced by skills, experience, and business needs. Your recruiter will provide details about benefits and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process. Learn more at

*Excludes seasonal employees and interns.