Underwriting Manager

**Underwriting Manager - Personal Lines**:
**WE OFFER **:The Personal Lines Underwriting Manager leads a team of Underwriters and Associates to build an engaged culture and ensure sound decisions. This role manages analysis and efficient workflows to support top-line growth and bottom-line profitability objectives. In addition, the role:

- Coaches associates to ensure data analysis and underwriting judgment are consistently used to make sound, timely decisions.
- Mentors associates in career development and holds one-on-one meetings.
- Leads a team of underwriters and builds a motivated, curious, collaborative, and engaged culture.
- Manages associates and team: performance, service levels, back log, work load, and organization.
- Ensures compliance to policies, rules and regulation through portfolio reporting and policy level quality validation audits.
- Operates in a professional, customer friendly manner even with adverse decisions.
- Conducts data analysis on portfolios of risk to identify issues and trends.
- Identifies workflow, process improvements and documents business requirements for change.
- Collaborates with other departments to resolve issues through a team approach.
- Hires, trains, and develops associates while managing resource capacity.
- Other duties as assigned.

**WE EXPECT**:
**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- Bachelor’s Degree, Supervisor’s certification, CPCU or other industry coursework/designation.
- 3+ years of underwriting experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, leadership, time management, and process improvement skills.

**Preferred**:

- Advanced Degree in applicable field.
- Insurance background and/or data analytics experience.
- 2+ years supervising exempt associates, teams or process, preferably in underwriting.
- Advanced skill in Excel, Cognos, or Access.
- Ability to embrace and promote change.

At American Modern, a subsidiary of Munich Re, we see Diversity and Inclusion as a solution to the challenges and opportunities all around us. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture and build a workforce that reflects the customers we serve and the communities in which we live and work. We strive to provide a workplace where all of our colleagues feel respected, valued and empowered to achieve their very best every day. We recruit and develop talent with a focus on providing our customers the most innovative products and services.
- We are an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.American Modern is a widely recognized, national leader in the specialty insurance business. With close to 50 years of experience in the manufactured housing insurance sector, the company delivers specialized products and services for residential property and the recreational market. One of our newest lines is pet health insurance. The company is headquartered in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio.

American Modern is licensed in all 50 states and offers insurance products through a number of property and casualty companies which serve more than 1.7 million policyholders. As part of its parent company, American Modern’s companies are rated A+ (Superior) by the A.M. Best Company an independent analyst of the insurance industry, and is also a Ward’s 50® Top Performer another well-regarded industry standard of stability and excellence.

American Modern joined Munich Re as a key part of the world reinsurance leader’s North American insurance operations in April 2008. Munich Re has approximately 47,000 employees in over 50 locations throughout the world and operates in all lines of insurance. It is among the top 100 companies on the Forbes Global 500 list.