Underwriter Ii Property

**Job Description**:
Working as part of the Americas’ Property Underwriting team, the role will be focused on securing and maintaining profitable business opportunities through leading edge solutions for client needs. Therefore, the role requires a significant amount of interaction with Clients, Brokers and internal stakeholders.

**What**you’ll be doing**:
What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Develop and structure tailor-made solutions through our risk transfer and service-related products, in accordance with the Property Underwriting guidelines and relevant best practices, to enhance our customer and broker experience.
- Procure new business opportunities through effective marketing strategies designed around supporting our key brokers, fostering new broker relationships, and meeting with prospective clients.
- Evaluate appropriate risk premium by considering the risk costs inherent to the Property sector, reinsurance cessions as well as the underwriting and general administration costs to ensure profitability.
- Utilize effective sales and negotiating skills to bring new business and renewal transactions to a successful close.
- Initiate and collaborate internally with other business units to uncover and pursue cross-sell opportunities.
- Manage timely implementation of new and renewal accounts, including but not limited to, referrals, quotes, binders, facultative reinsurance, policies, engineering services, in accordance with company standards.
- Advise, assist, and service clients on insurance and risk management matters to ensure clients satisfaction and respond to client and AXA XL queries in a timely manner.
- Coach and mentor for the development of skills, knowledge and competencies of less experienced colleagues.
- Develop best practices and the sharing of underwriting knowledge within the team.
- Proactively foster positive relationships with renewal clients including pre-renewal and stewardship engagements to get a mutual understanding of their needs.
- Ability to lead and/or assist in continuous improvement project to benefit Property and in some cases, the broader organization.

You will report to the Underwriting Manager, Property
- Large Commercial, Canada.

**What**you’ll bring**:
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
**Required Skills and Abilities**:

- Moderate underwriting experience with thorough technical knowledge of underwriting, rating methodologies, forms and business processes.
- Some understanding of global and domestic property underwriting.
- Large account experience and HPR background is a plus.
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships with customers, producers and trading partners.

**Desired Skills and Abilities**:

- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent marketing, presentation and negotiation skills.
- Excellent decision-making skills.

**Who**we**are**:
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

**What**we**offer**:
**Inclusion**

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. _It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed._
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at Inclusion & Diversity at AXA XL | AXA XL. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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