Managing Director - Construction Surety

Bond & Specialty Insurance provides management and professional liability insurance, as well as surety bonds to businesses and non-profit organizations of all sizes. As an underwriter, you will have a dynamic role that blends evaluating and analyzing financial and business risk, building relationships, and selling and negotiating with clients, agents, and brokers.

• Manage the profitability, growth, and retention of business within a location or region while managing a team of underwriters.
• Partner with RVP and Home Office to execute business unit underwriting strategies to effectively achieve profit and growth objectives
• Collaborate in the underwriting process.
• Support relationships with internal partners within the business unit and across the enterprise.
• Lead and support team while providing strategic direction, coaching, training, and performance management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree
• Eight to ten years of applicable underwriting experience.
• Prior experience leading or managing others.
• Expert level knowledge of products, ability to effectively communicate the regulatory environment, and understanding of the local insurance and surety markets.
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to underwrite, market products, identify financial challenges, and analyze available information to make decisions in alignment with our risk appetite.
• Ability to create and execute strategic direction across assigned region.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to successfully negotiate in difficult situations with agents and brokers.

• Health Insurance
• 401k matching
• Pension Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program
• Volunteer Encouragement

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.