Overview In this role you will drive new business development, pricing, and renewal underwriting for a focused life sciences portfolio. You'll work closely with brokers and producers to meet growth and profitability targets while ensuring compliance and effective service. The position offers path to lead underwriters and contribute to innovative product initiatives within a respected specialty insurer. You'll operate in a collaborative, fast-evolving environment that values expertise in life sciences product liability and excess lines. This is an opportunity to shape profitable growth for Berkley Life Sciences while leveraging deep industry knowledge.
Compensation / Benefits- base salary 120k-180k
- annual discretionary bonus
- health, dental, vision, life, disability
- wellness programs
- paid time off
- 401(k) and profit-sharing plans
Responsibilities- Develop new business, underwrite and service accounts for assigned producers
- Grow to manage other underwriters and their results
- Build relationships with brokers to meet financial goals (growth, profit, retention, new business)
- Solicit accounts, perform risk selection and analysis, and document, price, and market Berkley Life Sciences products
- Drive business development for assigned territories
- Identify opportunities for account rounding
- Provide technical support to producers and insureds
- Stay current with compliance, procedural, and workflow changes
- Collaborate with underwriting associate, operations, legal, home office underwriting, and claims
- Contribute to innovation initiatives, product launches, marketing campaigns, and short-term projects
Key requirements- Minimum 8 years of underwriting experience with progressive responsibility
- Life Science Products Liability experience
- Claims-made experience a plus
- Excellent oral and written communication; adaptable communication style
- Calm under pressure with strong organizational skills and integrity
- Ability to challenge norms while collaborating across levels
- Strong sense of accountability and proactive follow-through
- Ability to maintain relationships while saying no when needed
- Natural curiosity and willingness to learn and innovate
- Analytical mindset for pricing and coverage alignment with profitability models
- exceptional communication
- calm under pressure
- collaborative
- underwriting
- pricing analysis
- risk assessment
