The Opportunity

We are looking for a driven, results-oriented, team player to join our team. This is a great opportunity to work alongside industry experts, develop client relationships, work as part of a dynamic and successful team and grow a book of business to support our ambitious growth goals.

This role supports our Toronto based Commercial Property and Casualty Team with a strong focus on account retention and underwriting renewal business. We are currently hybrid with the expectation all employees can come into our Downtown Toronto office on a regular basis located at Bay and Adelaide.

Job Responsibilities

This role plays a critical part of our business retention and growth strategy. You will help brokers by being responsive and tactical, working towards finding competitive solutions for their accounts, while refining & expanding your underwriting skills in progressive environment. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Maintaining and Growing a Renewal Book of Business:

• Maintain existing broker relationships to solicit renewals and generate new business opportunities
• Drive client satisfaction and loyalty by ensuring prompt and courteous client service to all brokers
• Develop and maintain knowledge and understanding of company operations and procedures
• Utilize other Burns & Wilcox Canada offices via referrals to place business and provide comprehensive solutions

Analyzing Risk and Placing Business:

• Maintain knowledge of carriers’ underwriting guidelines and/or domestic and international markets
• Obtain adequate underwriting information for quoting, binding, and issuing
• Review coverage requirements, prices, and conditions
• Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions
• Submit quality submissions to markets
• Provide consultation to brokers regarding differences between quotes and coverages
• Promptly review inspections to verify quality of risk
• Ensure all renewal business is reviewed and quoted appropriately
• Ensure all files are documented properly to avoid potential E&O’s
• Maintain carrier relationships
• Stay abreast of underwriting practices and maintain licenses and certifications

Mentorship and Collaboration with Team members:

• Train, develop, and nurture assistant/associate underwriters – skill, process knowledge, and professional competencies
• Help manage priorities and workload of assistant/associate underwriters on your team
• Cultivate trust, lead by example, and maintain an open door for team

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 2 years of full time underwriting experience, MGA experience preferred
• Hold a CIP, CRM, or comparable designations or actively pursuing
• Hold a broker license (Level 1 or 2), or can qualify for a license within 90 day

Ideal Candidate

• You’re a go-getter and results-oriented. You set ambitious goals and track your performance metrics.
• You’repassionate about learning. You have a unique opportunity to work alongside our national experts to gain a wide exposure to insurance trends.
• You’re passionate about growing something that is bigger than yourself. This is an opportunity to be part of creating the largest Managing General Agent in Canada!
• You’re adaptableand a master multi-tasker. Our industry is fast-paced and ever-changing.
• You’re a Our office has a collaborative atmosphere where learning from others and teaching others is important.
• You’re professional and client-oriented.We service clients across the globe and take pride in our corporate work environment and reputation. 

Compensation

• Competitive base compensation & bonus plan
• Competitive group benefit plan and company matched RRSP including Health Care Spending and Lifestyle Spending accounts.
• Employer-paid continuing education, courses, and designations
• Extensive internal training and development opportunities through Kaufman Institute, H.W. Kaufman Group’s world-class learning and development center  
• Many exciting opportunities for career advancement

When someone needs insurance coverage for the unique, the unusual, or the unconventional, they come to Burns & Wilcox Canada. Burns & Wilcox Canada offers comprehensive solutions for retail insurance brokers and agents of all sizes. Burns & Wilcox Canada is a subsidiary of the H.W. Kaufman Group. No other specialty insurance organization can match the unique ability of the H.W. Kaufman Group to broker, write, insure and finance the most highly specialized risks in the world.

Our Commitment

The H.W. Kaufman Group is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence with a view to providing integration and equal opportunities for all. The H.W. Kaufman Group welcomes applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate applicants’ disability-related needs in accordance with the respective provincial human rights codes throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you require a disability-related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please inform the Recruiter or contact our Human Resources department at HRCanada@burns-wilcox.ca or 416.774.2477. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.