Liberty Mutual Insurance
Senior Underwriting Officer, Excess Casualty
Liberty Mutual Insurance, Plano, Texas, us, 75086
Senior Underwriting Officer, Excess Casualty
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Liberty Mutual Insurance
Pay Range Base pay range: $96,000.00/yr - $292,000.00/yr
Description The Senior Underwriting (UW) Officer, Excess Casualty, reports to the Executive Underwriting Officer of Major Accounts Casualty. Major Accounts handles large and complex commercial risks to deliver Primary and Excess Casualty programs to valued customers. The role focuses on the Majors Excess Casualty portfolio, serving some of the largest companies in the U.S. The Senior Underwriting Officer works with the leadership team, delivers technical expertise, and serves as the point of contact for the frontline underwriting teams for all questions, key decisions, or referrals. The role engages with product sets in Umbrella, Excess, and Alternative Risk Transfer (ART).
Responsibilities
Provide expert technical underwriting assistance and formal referral approval for assigned lines of business (lead umbrella/excess) in Majors Excess Casualty. Interact independently with field underwriters and directly with UW managers on all mandatory referral cases and voluntary consultation items.
Ensure continuity and alignment between Primary and Excess Casualty placements.
Support Executive Underwriting Officer on transactions and serve as trusted advisor in exposure, coverage analysis, and key pricing/financial elements within authority.
Monitor frameworks for underwriting decisions (e.g., referrals, technical reviews) and recommend improvements as needed.
Evaluate portfolio performance regularly in Majors Excess Casualty, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify drivers of performance, risks, and opportunities.
Drive UW technical excellence across Majors Excess Casualty, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify and resolve issues.
Work with Underwriting Leaders to identify product and services enhancements, underwriter capability development opportunities (e.g., skills, tools), and elevate to Executive Underwriting Officer and Majors CUO.
Model effective collaboration within/across teams, stakeholders and partners (e.g., UW Support, Claims, Actuarial, NA Product Teams).
Qualifications
Expert-level knowledge of all aspects of coverage forms, exclusions, and exposure. Experience underwriting Umbrella, Excess, and ART, including pricing, structure, rating plans, loss forecasting, credit risk, market knowledge.
Advanced knowledge of and experience operating within several different industry segments; insurance operations; claims, finance and actuarial concepts; regulatory environment; loss control/risk engineering; reinsurance; account management; product development; and industry trends.
Must be a skilled collaborator who is willing to assess all sides of an issue, bring in others with expertise, and independently execute and advance the collaboration model.
Other professional skills required include superior communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, listening); approachability; tact; coaching/development; analyzing and problem solving; relationship and service driven; clear solutions orientation and commitment to achieving segment operational and financial objectives; negotiation skills; and demonstrated ability to consistently and positively influence others both internally and externally (brokers/customers) as required.
Bachelor's degree, 10 or more years of relevant experience that includes underwriting, claims, reinsurance, coaching/developing others, working with brokers/agents and currency with market trends and developments.
About Us At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive. We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embedded in every aspect of our culture. This comes to life through comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and a host of employee resource group opportunities.
Pay Philosophy The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role.
Equal Opportunity and Fair Chance Notices Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
California
Los Angeles Incorporated
Los Angeles Unincorporated
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Location and Salary Dallas, TX $96,000.00-$292,000.00 (posted 1 day ago)
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Liberty Mutual Insurance
Pay Range Base pay range: $96,000.00/yr - $292,000.00/yr
Description The Senior Underwriting (UW) Officer, Excess Casualty, reports to the Executive Underwriting Officer of Major Accounts Casualty. Major Accounts handles large and complex commercial risks to deliver Primary and Excess Casualty programs to valued customers. The role focuses on the Majors Excess Casualty portfolio, serving some of the largest companies in the U.S. The Senior Underwriting Officer works with the leadership team, delivers technical expertise, and serves as the point of contact for the frontline underwriting teams for all questions, key decisions, or referrals. The role engages with product sets in Umbrella, Excess, and Alternative Risk Transfer (ART).
Responsibilities
Provide expert technical underwriting assistance and formal referral approval for assigned lines of business (lead umbrella/excess) in Majors Excess Casualty. Interact independently with field underwriters and directly with UW managers on all mandatory referral cases and voluntary consultation items.
Ensure continuity and alignment between Primary and Excess Casualty placements.
Support Executive Underwriting Officer on transactions and serve as trusted advisor in exposure, coverage analysis, and key pricing/financial elements within authority.
Monitor frameworks for underwriting decisions (e.g., referrals, technical reviews) and recommend improvements as needed.
Evaluate portfolio performance regularly in Majors Excess Casualty, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify drivers of performance, risks, and opportunities.
Drive UW technical excellence across Majors Excess Casualty, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify and resolve issues.
Work with Underwriting Leaders to identify product and services enhancements, underwriter capability development opportunities (e.g., skills, tools), and elevate to Executive Underwriting Officer and Majors CUO.
Model effective collaboration within/across teams, stakeholders and partners (e.g., UW Support, Claims, Actuarial, NA Product Teams).
Qualifications
Expert-level knowledge of all aspects of coverage forms, exclusions, and exposure. Experience underwriting Umbrella, Excess, and ART, including pricing, structure, rating plans, loss forecasting, credit risk, market knowledge.
Advanced knowledge of and experience operating within several different industry segments; insurance operations; claims, finance and actuarial concepts; regulatory environment; loss control/risk engineering; reinsurance; account management; product development; and industry trends.
Must be a skilled collaborator who is willing to assess all sides of an issue, bring in others with expertise, and independently execute and advance the collaboration model.
Other professional skills required include superior communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, listening); approachability; tact; coaching/development; analyzing and problem solving; relationship and service driven; clear solutions orientation and commitment to achieving segment operational and financial objectives; negotiation skills; and demonstrated ability to consistently and positively influence others both internally and externally (brokers/customers) as required.
Bachelor's degree, 10 or more years of relevant experience that includes underwriting, claims, reinsurance, coaching/developing others, working with brokers/agents and currency with market trends and developments.
About Us At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive. We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embedded in every aspect of our culture. This comes to life through comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and a host of employee resource group opportunities.
Pay Philosophy The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role.
Equal Opportunity and Fair Chance Notices Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
California
Los Angeles Incorporated
Los Angeles Unincorporated
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Location and Salary Dallas, TX $96,000.00-$292,000.00 (posted 1 day ago)
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