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    Senior Underwriter - Los Angeles, United States - AXA

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    Senior Underwriter - Property

    Los Angeles, California/ USA


    Working as part of the Southwestern Property Underwriting team, the role will be focused on securing and maintaining profitable business opportunities through leading edge solutions for client needs.

    Therefore, the role requires a significant amount of interaction with Clients, Brokers and internal stakeholders.

    DISCOVER your opportunity

    What will your essential responsibilities include?


    Develop and structure tailor-made solutions through our risk transfer and service related products, in accordance with the Property Underwriting guidelines and relevant best practices, to enhance our customer and broker experience.


    Procure new business opportunities through effective marketing strategies designed around supporting our key brokers, fostering new broker relationships, and meeting with prospective clients.


    Evaluate appropriate risk premium by considering the risk costs inherent to the Property sector, reinsurance cessions as well as the underwriting and general administration costs to ensure profitability.

    Utilize effective sales and negotiating skills to bring new business and renewal transactions to a successful close.

    Initiate and collaborate internally with other business units to uncover and pursue cross-sell opportunities.


    Manage timely implementation of new and renewal accounts, including but not limited to, referrals, quotes, binders, facultative reinsurance, policies, engineering services, in accordance with company standards.


    Advise, assist, and service clients on insurance and risk management matters to ensure clients satisfaction and respond to client and AXA XL queries in a timely manner.

    Coach and mentor for the development of skills, knowledge and competencies of less experienced colleagues.

    Develop best practices and the sharing of underwriting knowledge within the team.

    Proactively foster positive relationships with renewal clients including pre-renewal and stewardship engagements to get a mutual understanding of their needs

    Ability to lead and/or assist in continuous improvement project to benefit Property and in some cases, the broader organization

    You will report to a senior member of the South West Region, NA Property Underwriting team.

    SHARE your talent

    We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:


    Required Skills and Abilities:
    Minimum 5-10 years underwriting experience with thorough technical knowledge of underwriting, rating methodologies, forms and business processes

    Candidate needs to have basic understanding of global and domestic property underwriting. Large

    account experience and HPR background is a plus.

    Ability to develop and maintain relationships with customers, producers and trading partners.


    Desired Skills and Abilities:
    Bachelor's Degree preferred; professional designations CPCU, ARM a plus

    Excellent analytical skills.

    Excellent communication skills.

    Excellent marketing, presentation and negotiation skills.

    Solid leadership and management skills.

    Excellent decision-making skills.

    FIND your future

    AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.


    How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

    With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

    Learn more at

    Inclusion & Diversity


    AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.


    At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success.

    That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential.

    It's about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

    Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe

    Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements

    Enhanced family friendly leave benefits

    Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index

    Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

    Learn more at AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

    Corporate Responsibility


    At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems.

    From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy – Our Impact.

    Our Future.

    – aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business – climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group's purpose to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters.".


    Climate:
    We're reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.

    Water:
    We're developing water resilience where it is — and will be — needed most.

    Financial resilience:
    We're helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.

    Hearts in Action:

    We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our "Hearts in Action" programs.

    For more information, please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.

    The pay range for this position is ($95,000 – $186,500 ). Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual's skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues' pay.

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