Now Hiring - Insurance Underwriting Consulting Director (National Accounts, Primary Casualty) in Chicago, IL

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JOB DESCRIPTION:

CNA’s US Insurance Operations (USIO) provides standard lines commercial property and casualty insurance products such as General and Product Liability, Property and Commercial Auto, Workers' Compensation, Umbrella Liability and Excess Liability Coverages to businesses of all sizes. Our Commercial Standard lines team underwrites a diverse mix of business and industry classes including Manufacturing, Distributors, Education, Real Estate, Technology, Wholesale, Retail, Service classes and also includes a Construction unit that serves the special insurance needs of construction businesses.

Our Large Account Primary Casualty Underwriting Consulting Directors are high level individual contributors responsible for overall management, business development, growth and profitability of a book of Large Account Casualty business spanning a wide range of industry segments and revenue bands.

CNA distributes its products through partnerships with independent agents and brokers and manages the production of those relationships by developing deep relationships though high visibility, superior customer service, and demonstrating excellence in technical underwriting disciplines. The Standard Lines operating model focuses on underwriting performance, exposure-based pricing, and building strong producer and customer relationships. This is accomplished by executing to CNA’s core principles and maintaining a strong working relationship with internal business units including Claim and Risk Control.

Position Summary

The Underwriter is responsible for using technical, sales and analytical skills to provide insurance solutions that help CNA’s customers manage risk. The Underwriter will have a thorough understanding of CNA’s strategies and appetites and will use internal and external data to make appropriate individual and portfolio risk decisions.

The Underwriter is responsible for the profitable growth of an assigned book of business, utilizing underwriting policies and guidelines, rating rules and insurance laws and regulations. The open position is located in the Chicago, IL office reporting to the AVP of Underwriting for National Accounts.

Ideal candidate will have 5-10+ years of large account casualty underwriting experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Underwriting Expertise

In all responsibilities and interactions, all employees are expected to adopt and align with CNA’s Winning Behaviors – to be externally focused, accountable, collaborative, innovative, and continuously learning.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

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