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AIG Senior Underwriting Specialist, Ocean Marine in Toronto, Canada

Join us in Ocean Marine to take your Underwriting career to the next level with a global market leader.

At AIG, we are reimagining the way we help customers to manage risk. Join us as a Senior Underwriting Specialist, Ocean Marine to play your part in that transformation. It’s an opportunity to grow your skills and experience as a valued member of the team.

Make your mark in Ocean Marine

AIG underwriting teams help to find insurance solutions in areas including Financial Lines, Property, Casualty, Specialty Lines, Cyber, Multinational Clients, and High Net Worth individuals. We are reimagining how we help customers to manage risk, transforming our operating model, and reshaping our role responsibilities and career pathways. The goal is to unlock the full potential in each colleague – empowering our people to grow as insurance professionals and add more value to our customers and AIG.

How you will create an impact

  • Providing technical direction to management, less senior specialists, producers, and claims adjusting colleagues

  • Accepting, declining or modifying new and renewal submissions: identifying exposures and analysis required to underwrite an account, as well as the coverage policies; determining the exposures to loss assumed and restricted by the insuring agreements and the exclusions

  • Managing a book of business and input to the budget relative to regional budget/goals

  • Establishing new business production goals and submission flow relative to the book of business

  • Collaborating with Distribution, Territory Managers, and other line(s) of business underwriters to target desirable accounts and cross selling opportunities from brokers

  • Developing and implementing pricing and negotiation strategy, terms & conditions, and deal structures with brokers and clients while maintaining the quality of the risk and underwriting strategy

  • Providing superior customer service to brokers and clients

  • Driving a culture that promotes collaboration, innovation, diversity and inclusion; attracting and developing talent

  • Maintain and develop a national broker network

What you’ll need to succeed

  • Minimum of 5 years of Commercial Insurance Company, Agency or Brokerage experience

  • Advanced working knowledge of marine coverages but principally ocean cargo lines of business including product features, forms, regulatory environments and risks, etc.

  • Advanced knowledge of ocean cargo coverages

  • Detail-oriented, critical thinking skills, decision making based on level of authority, problem solving, competent using analytical tools and technology

  • Effective in dynamic environment, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity, working at pace and prioritizing multiple tasks

  • Communication skills (written and verbal), collaboration, building trust with wide range of colleagues and clients

  • Financial understanding, appetite for learning about the industry, negotiating and focused on profitable

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred

  • Market knowledge of cargo insurance landscape, including brokers and insurers.

Ready to maximize your impact? We would love to hear from you.

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Reimagining insurance to make a bigger difference to the world

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most far-reaching property casualty networks. It is an exciting time to join us — across our operations, we are thinking in new and innovative ways to deliver ever-better solutions to our customers. At AIG, you can go further to support individuals, businesses, and communities, helping them to manage risk, respond to times of uncertainty and discover new potential. We invest in our largest asset, our people, through continuous learning and development, in a culture that celebrates everyone for who they are and what they want to become.

Welcome to a culture of belonging

We’re committed to creating a culture that truly respects and celebrates each other’s talents, backgrounds, cultures, opinions and goals. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging through our flexible work arrangements, diversity and inclusion learning, cultural awareness activities and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). With global chapters, ERGs are a cornerstone for our culture of inclusion. The diversity of our people is one of AIG’s greatest assets, and we are honored that our drive for positive change has been recognized by numerous recent awards and accreditations.

AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories.

AIG is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please send an email to candidatecare@aig.com .

Functional Area:

UW - Underwriting

Estimated Travel Percentage (%): Up to 25%

Relocation Provided: No

AIG Insurance Company of Canada

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