Risk Advisor - Surety
Description
The Opportunity:
The Risk Advisor - Surety executes placement and provides technical expertise including account and brokerage services to new and/or existing surety clients. This position requires collaboration with internal sales and service teams as well as clients and vendor partners to produce a positive customer experience that results in client retention and long-term relations with our clients and vendor partners.
In This Role You Will Execute On:
- As a coverage expert, provide technical assistance to internal stakeholders and external clients.
- Collaborate with client executives and surety team to identify the optimal program design and placement for new and/or existing clients.
- Manage new account marketing efforts including gathering of information, marketing to various sureties and presenting terms and conditions to clients.
- Work with bond processors and client executives to manage bond declinations and take appropriate action.
- Foster relationships with insurance carriers, centers of influence and vendors important to our success and marketplace differentials that align with our mission, core values, and support of our processes
- Provide Educational content for internal and external distribution
- Evaluate appropriate markets and bond structures for assigned clients and/or prospects.
- Assist Claims team in the technical assessment and interpretation of policies.
- Market submissions to carriers to obtain the most favorable surety program based on the client's needs
- Place bonds for clients with innovative bond terms.
- Provide technical assessment and interpretation of bonds to assist with claims needs.
- Perform other duties and special projects as requested.
In This Role You Will Need:
- Five (5) or more years of experience with Surety placements
- Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Surety brokering, risk management, underwriting, and consulting experience highly desired
- Advanced level surety technical knowledge
- Active Property & Casualty insurance licensure
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills, including listening, speaking and writing
- Ability and willingness to travel by car or airplane for meetings, conferences, or other business-related functions.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Why Hylant?
A multi-year recipient of Best Places to Work in Insurance, Hylant is a full-service insurance brokerage with over 20 offices in eight states. And since the founding of our family-owned business over 85 years ago, we made a promise to strengthen and protect the businesses, employees and communities of our client family by embracing them as our own. We’re more than an insurance brokerage firm and you’re more than a client, employee or neighbor. You’re family. And that’s just the way we treat you.
Hylant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, Veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Hylant participates in E-Verify.
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