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AXIS (AXIS Capital) lists this Underwriter - law opportunity in short hills, New Jersey. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.
The role will contribute to Business Unit profit goals, portfolio strategy, client and broker engagement, and disciplined cycle management across General Liability, Workers Compensation, Commercial Auto Liability, Umbrella/Excess Liability, and other casualty classes within the teams appetite.
Originate, analyze, price, structure, negotiate, and underwrite North America general casualty and workers compensation treaty business in accordance with underwriting guidelines, portfolio appetite, allocated authority, and established best practices.
· Manage assigned renewals and new-business opportunities across proportional and non-proportional treaty structures, including quota share, surplus share, working excess, and catastrophe or clash protections, as applicable.
· Assess cedent strategy, management, underwriting controls, distribution, claims practices, reserving, rate adequacy, exposure trends, and historical performance to develop a clear underwriting view.
· Partner with actuarial, claims, contract wording, finance, and legal colleagues to evaluate treaty economics, key assumptions, terms and conditions, and potential volatility.
· Build and maintain strong relationships with reinsurance intermediaries and cedent clients to support profitable business origination, retention, and long-term strategic partnerships.
· Monitor market conditions and casualty loss drivers, including social inflation, litigation trends, legal and regulatory developments, medical inflation, loss-cost trends, and changes in underlying policy terms.
· Participate in cedent underwriting audits, claims reviews, stewardship meetings, and ongoing monitoring of account performance.
· Maintain accurate and timely underwriting documentation, pricing records, exposure data, and internal system entries.
· Travel to service clients, meet brokers, conduct audits, and attend industry conferences and market events.
You are a hands-on casualty treaty underwriting professional with strong technical judgment and a record of building and managing a complex book of reinsurance business. You understand the treaty underwriting lifecycle, from submission review and portfolio analysis through pricing, structuring, negotiation, authorization, documentation, and post-bind monitoring. You bring professional presence, commercial judgment, and the ability to communicate, influence, and build relationships that add value to the AXIS Re portfolio and support longer-term strategic initiatives.
While there are qualifications and experiences we need you to have, we are open to discussing how your individual knowledge may help you succeed in this role and contribute to our goals.
Demonstrated casualty underwriting, reinsurance underwriting, broking, actuarial, or related experience with a strong understanding of North American casualty business.
· Knowledge of General Casualty and Workers Compensation, with familiarity across Commercial Auto Liability, Umbrella/Excess Liability, General Liability and related casualty classes.
· Working knowledge of actuarial and pricing concepts, including experience partnering with actuarial teams to evaluate and price reinsurance treaties.
· Ability to assess exposure and experience data, loss development, rate and exposure change, limits, retentions, attachment points, and treaty economics.
· Strong grasp of underlying policy forms, reinsurance contract wording, exclusions, claims issues, and the roles of claims, actuarial, legal, accounting, and finance in the underwriting process.
· Ability to initiate and independently lead defined projects and portfolio initiatives.
· Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent industry experience.
A minimum of five years of casualty insurance, reinsurance underwriting, actuarial, claims, or broking experience.
· Experience underwriting or analyzing both proportional and non-proportional casualty treaty structures.
· Advanced Excel capability, including lookup functions, PivotTables, and analysis across multiple data sets.
· Experience building dashboards or data models using Power BI.
· Based in the New York City area or another approved AXIS office location.
Travel to visit clients and brokers, conduct underwriting audits, and attend industry conferences.
· Be in the office, or visiting brokers or clients, three days per week.
· Attend broker and client events as required, including evenings and some weekend travel.
In addition, you will be offered competitive target incentive compensation, with awards based on overall corporate performance and your individual performance. You will also be eligible for a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes medical plans for you and your family, health and wellness programs, retirement plans, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, and more.
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