Underwriting Specialist, Energy

Underwriting Specialist, Energy

At AIG, we are reimagining the way we help customers to manage risk. Join us as an Underwriting Specialist, Energy to play your part in that transformation. It's an opportunity to grow your skills and experience as a valued member of the team.

Make your mark in underwriting

AIG underwriting teams help to find insurance solutions in areas including Financial Lines, Property, Casualty, Specialty Lines, Cyber, Multinational Clients, and High Net Worth individuals. We are reimagining how we help customers to manage risk, transforming our operating model, and reshaping our role responsibilities and career pathways. The goal is to unlock the full potential in each colleague empowering our people to grow as insurance professionals and add more value to our customers and AIG.

AIG has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Underwriter to join our Energy and Engineered Risk Property Team focusing on property coverage for clients in the power and utility sector.

How you will create an impact

• Underwriting and managing an existing book of traditional power and renewable energy risks and developing and underwriting a pipeline of new business opportunities across the country
• Collaborating with peers in other regions and providing technical underwriting support on existing accounts in those regions, ensuring a consistent approach to market throughout the country.
• Negotiating terms and conditions with brokers and clients
• Communicating our value proposition with our brokers and clients and demonstrating our right to win
• Identifying future industry trends, understand how they will impact ours our client's business and developing new strategies around those trends
• Communicating to internal stakeholders on the profitable of the portfolio
• Providing superior customer service to brokers and clients.
• Attend client/broker meetings, presentations and relevant industry events on behalf of the company.
• Participating in special underwriting projects as needed.

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum of five years of experience in the power and renewable energy property insurance market
• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university.
• Advanced technical knowledge of the power and renewable energy space including Gas and Steam Turbine, Wind, Solar and Battery Storage, understanding key hazards associates with them, industry loss trends and the ability to differentiate risks
• Ability to rapidly evaluate, prioritize and select submissions to be underwritten.
• Ability to analyze policy wordings
• Demonstrated knowledge of current market conditions, trends and the ability to leverage that knowledge to give us right to win
• Relationships with tier 1 and 2 brokers and the ability to develop new relationships
• Demonstrated sales, marketing, and relationship building experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment making quick decisions while adhering to sound underwriting discipline
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time