Underwriting Specialist

Company: Gallagher
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: October 14, 2021

Job Description:

Risk Placement Services opened for business in May 1997 with four employees based in Chicago and Atlanta. Since then RPS has completed dozens of acquisitions across the United States, acquiring top talent in all aspects of insurance.

At RPS, our focus is on smart and strategic growth, as well as the needs of our retail partners. Today, our more than 1,700+ associates stand ready to be a strategic business partner in marketing new and renewal business through our wholesale brokerage operations, MGAs, program managers and standard lines aggregator. We have the local knowledge, regional presence and national reach to provide the best options to our clients.

Specialties of RPS :
Wholesale Broker and Managing General Agent, Casualty, Property, Analytics, Healthcare, Workers Compensation, Transportation, Executive Lines, Technology & Cyber, Public Entity, Personal Lines.

Position Summary :
Independently and under limited supervision, evaluates companies to ensure that they are qualified in the marketplace.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Identifies and analyzes client exposures to recommend and/or design risk transfer/financing products.
• Markets customer business, typically of moderate to high complexity, to variety of insurance carriers.
• Receives and processes requests for quotations from account personnel that is both internally and externally facing.
• Identifies appropriate carriers, sends requests, negotiates favorable quotes and prepares recommendations.
• Responsible for the servicing and mid-term underwriting of a producer.
• Resolves most questions and problems, and refers only the most complex issues to higher levels.
• May provide guidance to lower level staff, but has no formal supervisory responsibility.
• No assigned production goals.

Required :

• Bachelor's degree and 3 years related experience required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications and Microsoft Office.

Preferred:

• Carrier experience highly preferred.

Behaviors:

• Detail oriented; strong analytical skills and good communication and interpersonal skills

U.S. Eligibility Requirements :

• 18 years of age or older.
• Willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
• Unrestricted work authorization to work in the U.S. For U.S. employment opportunities, Risk Placement Services, Inc. hires U.S. citizens, permanent residents, asylees, refugees, and temporary residents. Temporary residence does not include those with non-immigrant work authorization (F, J, H, or L visas), such as students in practical training status. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. RPS will require proof of work authorization.
• Willing to execute RPS' Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement which requires, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality and non-disclosure.

RPS offers competitive salaries and benefits, including: medical/dental/vision plans, life and accident insurance, 401(K), employee stock purchase plan, educational expense reimbursement, employee assistance program, flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function) training programs, matching gift program, and more.

Risk Placement Services, Inc. is a division of Arthur J. Gallagher and believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against nor favor any applicant because of race, color, religion, sex, age, veteran status, disability, national origin, or any other legally protected status. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, RPS will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Additional Information

Keywords: Gallagher, Charlotte , Underwriting Specialist, Other , Charlotte, North Carolina

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