Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. is seeking a Commercial Lines Consultant to coordinate and execute underwriting projects that drive profitability and corporate strategy. The role involves leveraging data for research and analysis, developing underwriting directives, and collaborating across various functional areas to optimize underwriting processes.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate strategic underwriting projects to execution and drive optimization of implemented solutions
- Conduct thorough research and analysis, providing informed decisions to support strategic value proposition for internal and external stakeholders
- Utilize data insights for effective governance of new and renewal business initiatives
- Effectively communicate critical project impacts
- Employ strong focus toward continuous improvement and workflow efficiencies within initiatives
- Develop and maintain underwriting protocols and guidelines, applying data-driven decision-making and structured communication strategy
- Collaborate with product, actuarial, and claim in the research, design, development, and enhancement of insurance products and protocols in proactive response to emerging issues
- Manage portfolio-level, multi-phase, multi-system, cross-functional projects with focus on underwriting profitability, expense management, and workflow efficiency
- Ensure accountability within cross-functional project teams
- Communicate project status, including key timeliness, technical issues, dependencies, constraints, and impacts to senior leadership team, impacted units, and stakeholders
- Develop and evaluate existing underwriting applications, surveys, data sources, and implementation of new technologies to support data collection and usage
- Assist with the audit function and support post-audit action
- Solid understanding of the policyholder lifecycle and ability to work cross-functionally to streamline processes and minimize expenses
- Work closely with product and compliance teams in support of underwriting resource development for adherence to regulatorily requirements
Skills
- Eight to ten years in the property and casualty industry, including three to five years in underwriting
- Experience driving execution of projects through stages including research, data-driven decision-making, resource and workflow development and successful initiative implementation
- Department-level project management experience to include the use of formal project management methodology
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills supporting capability to develop, test and implement solutions for complex problems and issues
- Strong listening, written and verbal presentation
- Comprehensive knowledge of the underwriting function and property and casualty industry, including all commercial lines products
- Knowledge and experience surrounding CM Group market focus
- Organized, analytical, and self-motivated
- Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred
- CPCU or evidence of continuing education in the insurance industry is preferred
- Experience navigating IT systems including workflow tools, policy administration and vendor solutions in support of Underwriting functions preferred
- Prior experience designing requirements for systems a significant plus
- Working knowledge of external compliance requirements, insurance department complaints and market conduct examinations is desirable
Company Overview
Our purpose has remained clear — support our customers, keep them safe and help them continue to serve others. It was founded in 1897, and is headquartered in Schuyler Lake, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.churchmutual.com.