Mortgage Underwriter jobs in Rock Island, IL

Are you passionate about a career in insurance?

Do you enjoy working with a team to achieve a common goal?

Are you ready to feel valued by your employer and rewarded for your success?

Illinois Casualty Company is growing, and we have an opportunity for an Underwriter to join us as we work to become the leading provider of insurance protection for the food and beverage industry.

Underwriters are responsible for ensuring new business growth, renewal retention, and overall profitability of an assigned underwriting territory. They oversee all aspects of the territory, ensuring that our agency partners’ needs and ICC’s objectives are met.

Essential Functions 

• Evaluating new business and renewal submissions; accepting or rejecting through exposure verification and loss control
• Considering profitability and loss ratio within underwriting territory through effective pricing
• Quoting and/or issuing endorsements beyond authority of team members
• Developing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with agents and their staff, and responding timely to inquiries, requests, and issues

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in insurance or related field of study, or comparable experience
• Knowledge of and ability to apply appropriate mathematical functions to make projections and identify and analyze problems
• Intermediate level proficiency in Microsoft Word and Outlook
• Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, and schedule form

Rewards

• The ability to have a direct impact on the success of a small, but growing organization
• Opportunities to grow and advance through our Personal Professional Development Program
• Participation in a comprehensive health plan, flexible work schedule, remote work opportunities, Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and Profit Sharing Bonus program!