Risk Control Senior Professional (AZ Territory)

Job Summary

The Risk Control Senior Professional is responsible for providing a full range of risk consulting services to assist writing and retaining profitable business. The role conducts consultation with the customers identified gaps to improve awareness and manage key risk issues. The role performs field and virtual interactions with customers to complete risk surveys and gather feedback that enables underwriting to make effective business decisions. The role is responsible for a defined set of assignments (e.g., assigned customers, workload management, resource support, underwriter meetings or other responsibilities) and independently performing a variety of duties, including potentially complex duties within established policy guidelines.

Job Responsibilities

• Plans, prioritizes, conducts, and provides a full range of risk evaluation and consulting services for business meeting department service level agreements with limited supervision.
• Utilizes experience and knowledge to create strong agency/customer relationships and markets, communicates and consults with agents and customers typically by phone to create trust, collect feedback and generate a valued experience in each engagement with customer, underwriter, and others.
• Conducts extensive research, collects, evaluates, and analyzes data to quantify and qualify level of risk, understand operation, and prioritize recommendations for risk improvement.
• Utilizes various types of technology platforms, programs, and information sources to identify and respond to underwriting and customer needs.
• Collaborates with underwriting to effectively use department resources that provide operational and risk insight to enable sound business decisions and prepares comprehensive reports, estimates of value, recommendations, and opinions to appropriate business partners.
• Conducts consultation with the customer to understand operations, complete risk assessment, and prioritize opportunities to manage risks.
• Maintains advanced knowledge to industry best practices, codes/standards, technology, and legislative issues and shares knowledge on areas of expertise through consultation, development of technical information, championing initiatives and other actions that progress department capabilities.
• Informs leader of activities and problems within the assigned area of responsibility; refers matters beyond area of authority to leader or appropriate channel for direction.
• Controls claims cost by creating recommendations that align with industry and Westfield best practices on identified risk issues and upholds a team ownership and approach in achieving timely resolution for identified opportunities with all stakeholders.
• Participates in agency visits and other marketing interactions to achieve business unit and department objectives with focus on profitable growth, retention, and market perception.
• For field roles only: Travels as often as needed including regular utilization of assigned fleet vehicle in order to cover assigned territory.
• This may involve traveling on short notice or other daily driving duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Risk Management or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, or a related field and/or commensurate work experience.
• For field roles only: Valid driver's license and a driving record that conforms to company standards.

Location

Remote-AZ Territory

Behavioral Competencies

• Collaborates
• Customer focus
• Communicates effectively
• Decision quality
• Nimble learning
• Associate in Risk Management (ARM)
• Certified Risk Manager (CRM)
• Drivers License

Technical Skills

• Operational Risk Management
• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Catastrophe Modeling
• Statistical Analysis
• Risk Control
• Risk Management
• Knowledge of Reporting Tools
• Business Analysis

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Lloyd's of London Syndicate 1200. As a mutual insurance company with more than 3,000 employees, Westfield has revenues in excess of $4 billion and more than $10 billion in assets.