Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, a business unit of Liberty Mutual Group, consists of property/casualty and specialty insurance carriers that distribute their products and services primarily through independent agents and brokers. The companies of Liberty Mutual Agency Markets provide a broad array of core property and casualty products, including a comprehensive set of personal and commercial coverage, which are available in most states. As of December 31, 2007, Liberty Mutual Group had $94.7 billion in consolidated assets, $82.3 billion in consolidated liabilities and $25.9 billion in annual consolidated revenue. Liberty Mutual ranks 94th on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. corporations based on 2007 revenue, and is the sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2006 direct written premium. Liberty Mutual Group today employs over 41,000 people in more than 900 offices throughout the world. Advance your career at Liberty Mutual - A Fortune 100 Company! Commercial Lines Underwriting Support is a vital operation to the Regional Company Group division of Agency Markets. Through this division, we provide support to facilitate a high volume of underwriting decisions across our commercial book of business. This is a team-based organization placing a very high emphasis on the quality of our internal and external relationships and our mutual successes. Put your high energy, collaborative work style and relationship building skills to work as an Underwriting Support Supervisor and realize the possibilities with Liberty Mutual. Responsibilities: * Manage a team of 12 to 15 associate underwriters in delivering timely, high quality and profitable products and services to customers. Hires and develops staff to meet changing business needs. * Delegates authority to associate underwriters in accordance with AM AU authority guidelines. Assigns underwriting territories in accordance with the individual's experience and the complexity and sophistication of the book of business Assures team works within delegated authority levels and company guidelines while modifying new and renewal business, to ensure a profitable book of business. * Identifies and participates in initiatives to improve team or regional performance. * Develops on-going relationships with agents and keeps agents and team members up-to-date with underwriting and/or product changes. * Monitors the book of business assigned to the team to maximize profitability and growth and to ensure that pricing guidelines and standards for timeliness are being met. Reviews loss activity (frequency and severity) for agents, and for each underwriter in team's territory. Considers mix of business, loss ratios by line of business, fit of business with company guidelines. Through the use of company programs, identifies problems, follows up with agents and underwriters. * Prepares and manages the annual team budget to ensure that financial targets and expense goals are met. * Defends bad faith claims by testifying in court on procedural and regulatory processing of policies. Prepares correspondence in response to Department of Insurance complaints. * Trains, coaches and serves as technical resource to other underwriters and associate underwriters. Develops programs to train new associate underwriters and manages new associate underwriter development regarding expertise on our products, processes, underwriting policies and standards, etc. Assists associate underwriters in the handling of high hazard or more complex accounts. * Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree or equivalent plus 5+ years of progressively more responsible related work experience is required * Excellent oral and written communication skills * Strong interpersonal and leadership skills in order to work with diverse groups of internal and external contacts * Proven organizational and problem solving skills and the ability to balance multiple tasks simultaneously * Project management skills * In-depth knowledge of complex rating plans and detailed knowledge of underwriting, rating and production support operations * CPCU/AU/AIPU designation a plus Relocation assistance is being offered for this position

Benefits: We recognize that talented people are attracted to companies that provide competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages and outstanding advancement opportunities. For this reason we offer a Comprehensive Benefits Plan that includes the following: * 401K and Company paid pension plan * Medical coverage * Dental coverage * Paid time-off * Pay-for-Performance * Discounts on automobile and homeowner's insurance * Discount fitness memberships * Flexible spending accounts * Tuition reimbursement * Vision care coverage * Work/Life resources * Credit Union membership * Employee and Dependent life insurance * Disability insurance * Long-term care insurance

Overview: We believe strongly that commercial success can be achieved in a manner consistent with principles and ideals that bind us together as one company, that set us apart from our competitors, and that in the end will allow us to say we have succeeded commercially by doing the right thing the right way. We believe that the Company's success is inextricably linked to our employees' satisfaction and success: satisfaction that they work for an industry leader committed to improving safety, satisfaction that they work for a company that does the right thing, and satisfaction that the company will reward them for their contributions and provide opportunities for personal growth and success. We believe our employees take pride in knowing that they help people live safer more secure lives everyday. Responsibility. What's your policy?