As the Director of Religious Organizations, you will develop and manage the execution of business plans through leadership of diverse underwriting team in a defined regional territory. You will provide foundational knowledge of the Religious Organizations niche, and field insight for establishing/maintaining relationships with key agency partners to achieve corporate goals and objectives. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively engaged in the development of territory/state business plans for the Religious Organizations niche within assigned geographic territory.

• Manages portfolio to ensure book of business is tracking with established goals and/or key performance metrics and initiate corrective action, as needed.

• Develops and maintains key agency relationships within territory to facilitate production of new business opportunities and strong retention of desirable in-force portfolio, including to help facilitate negotiating coverage, pricing and other issues that arise.

• Expertly handles escalated underwriting decisions from a portfolio team leader or underwriter.

• Collaborates with multiple internal functional units and a diverse and multi-faceted national distribution force.

• Oversees ongoing analysis of departmental workflows, considering and implementing improvements that will enhance service and reduce expenses.

• Leads a diverse team of portfolio management leaders and professional underwriters towards achieving individual, department, division, and enterprise goals.

• Recruits, hires, and trains new portfolio leaders and underwriters and provide continuous feedback to foster employee development to strengthen the team.

• Oversees the quality and quantity of work produced in responsible underwriting unit, including the setting of SMART goals.

• Monitors Service Level Agreements and takes corrective actions as needed.

• Coaches and develops staff by taking ownership, being accountable and setting an example for the department and team by:

• Communicating honestly and acting with integrity.

• Completing and submitting timely performance reviews.

• Promoting corporate rewards and recognition programs.

• Mentoring and developing The Mutual Group’s future leaders.

• Key stakeholder and collaborator in the development or modification of LOAs, products and underwriting guidelines with Product Management and Corporate Underwriting and pricing needs with Actuarial.

• Operationalize strategic initiatives within the Religious Organizations niche and audits to ensure moving in the direction towards desired outcome.

• Act as SME for the Religious Organizations niche to advise business segment leadership on profitability trends, growth opportunities, market conditions and competitor intelligence.

• Consults with distribution, claims, underwriting, compliance and legal departments to resolve complex issues.

• Develop and effectively manage assigned budget.

• Identify product management and insurance industry trends.

• Participate on a variety of committee and task force assignments as needed.

• Performs other related work as assigned.

  Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, or related field or equivalent combination of training and/or experience.

• CPCU or similar insurance related designation preferred.

• Ten (10) years of underwriting experience within the P&C Commercial Lines industry. Product development and management experience desirable.

• Five (5) years of increasing supervisory responsibility.

• Demonstrated background in handling complex underwriting and implementation of underwriting standards for risk, selection and pricing.

• Advanced knowledge of underwriting and strong ability to develop underwriting standards for risk, selection and pricing.

• Familiar with a variety of moderate to complex commercial underwriting and management concepts, practices, and procedures.

• Ability to expertly troubleshoot and resolve customer concerns.

• Demonstrated ability to work, collaborate and communicate effectively on cross-functional, internal and external teams.

• Ability to develop and enhance business relationships with senior leadership and internal and external customers that lead to a profitable portfolio of business.

• Strong presentation skills; ability to tailor to variety of audiences.

  Compensation:

• $127,800 - $213,000 commensurate with experience, plus bonus eligibility

• $140,700 - $234,500 commensurate with experience in CA, CT, MA, NJ, NY, and PA, plus bonus eligibility

*The successful candidate will initially be hired as an employee of GuideOne Insurance Company and automatically become an employee of TMG on the company's official transition date.

Benefits:

We are proud to offer a robust benefits suite that includes:

• Competitive base salary plus incentive plans for eligible team members

• 401(K) retirement plan that includes a company match of up to 6% of your eligible salary

• Free basic life and AD&D, long-term disability and short-term disability insurance

• Medical, dental and vision plans to meet your unique healthcare needs

• Wellness incentives

• Generous time off program that includes personal, holiday and volunteer paid time off

• Flexible work schedules and hybrid/remote options for eligible positions

• Educational assistance