Executive Underwriter - Specialty

Grow with Confidence

Are you a dynamic negotiator with a passion for driving business growth? ProAg is seeking an Executive Underwriter – Specialty to lead the charge in building relationships and expanding our market presence. In this role, you’ll be the go-to resource for agents, helping them grow their book of business while serving as a trusted partner to our sales team and supporting our underwriting teams forward. You’ll play a critical role in facilitating the underwriting process, driving profitable growth, and shaping the future of our underwriting discipline.

In This Exciting Opportunity You Will: 

• Develop business plans with agencies that improve book performance for profitability, retention, premium growth, and new business production.
• Evaluate new and renewal policy applications and related documents to classify and assess each risk, determine acceptability, assign rating, indicate endorsements and limits, and determine appropriate pricing.
• Cultivate relationships with internal and external contacts to facilitate the underwriting process, promote business development, and to remain abreast of industry trends. Serve as a resource to other departmental staff.
• Serve as a resource to other departmental staff with regards to underwriting procedures and other departmental guidelines.
• Utilize knowledge of automated underwriting and/or processing systems to develop information for new or renewal policies.
• Adhere to all company underwriting authority directives, underwriting guidelines, and other applicable company policies and procedures.

What You Will Bring:

• Approximately six years of relevant and progressive professional experience.
• At least two years of leadership experience, guiding teams to meet their goals.
• Previous agriculture or crop insurance industry experience but is not required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Administration, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field, or the equivalent education and/or experience.
• Ability to negotiate to enable business outcomes that support ProAg's strategic goals
• Utilize with a data-centered approach when making business and tactical decisions.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills with an emphasis on confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Knowledgeable of industry changes, legal updates, and technical developments related to applicable area of the Company's business to proactively respond to changing business environment.

What We Believe In:

• Ensures Accountability. Takes personal responsibility and ownership of successes and challenges.
• Communicates Effectively. Actively seeks out and communicates with key stakeholders in all situations.
• Resourcefulness. Determines how to meet customer and employee needs and finds the resources to get it done.
• Customer Focus. Every interaction is a customer and is handled with empathy and seriousness.
• Instills Trust. Makes intentions clear and meets shared challenges together, showing respect for the relationship and the team.

Pay Transparency

The pay range for this position is $120,000 - $170,000, which includes geographic adjustments, where applicable. The pay range is the range THMCC, in good faith, believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The hired applicant will be offered pay within the entire range based on the candidate’s geographic location, qualifications, work experience, education, and/or skill level. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of color, race, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local pay equity laws.

Disclaimer

You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if the Company is concerned about a conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction or challenge the accuracy of the background report. The Company will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state and local laws, such as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (18 USC § 1033(e))(the “VCCLEA”), which restricts financial institutions and insurers such as TMHCC from employing individuals with certain types of criminal convictions. Where the hiring and employment of individuals is not restricted by the foregoing, the Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history in compliance with applicable law such as the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance, and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.]

Equal Opportunity Employer

TMHCC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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