Starr Insurance Companies is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world.
Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world's fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 128 countries on 6 continents.
GENERAL SUMMARY
The Casualty Underwriter/ Senior Underwriter will underwrite and grow a profitable regional Casualty book within delegated authority, applying strong pricing and portfolio discipline, delivering excellent service to brokers/clients, and maintaining audit-ready files and data quality.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assess, quote, negotiate, and bind new/renewal business structure terms, limits/attachments, and wordings per guidelines.
- Use pricing tools/models perform rate adequacy and exposure/trend analysis recommend rate/selection actions.
- Manage pipeline/activity maintain accurate records and underwriting system data
- Adhere to referral thresholds and accumulation controls (incl. USexposure) prepare quality referral submissions when needed.
- Build broker relationships support client meetings, presentations, and account plans.
- Ensure contract certainty and meet governance and compliance requirements maintain audit-ready files.
- Collaborate with Claims and Risk Engineering embed loss lessons into selection and wordings.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree with ACII/FCII, CPCU, or ANZIIFCIP (obtained/ in progress) preferred.
- Minimum 3-5 years Casualty underwriting experience in 1 or more APAC market.
- Knowledge of GL/Products familiarity with Excess exposure to construction liability and Employers Liability a plus.
- Competent with manuscript wordings claims-made vs. occurrence and jurisdictional nuances.
- Proficient with pricing tools, Excel BI (Power BI/Tableau) is a plus.
- Strong negotiation, communication, organization, and commercial judgment
