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If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Surplus Lines Specialist.SageSure is seeking an experienced insurance professional to ensure that excess and surplus lines processes are working as expected and that state tax filings are accurate and timely. An excellent candidate will have insurance experience, preferably with excess and surplus lines, detailed oriented, process management focused, and thrive working in a fast-paced environment.
If you are an effective communicator, organized, self-directed, reliable and results-oriented, we’d like to meet you!
This position will be onsite-flexible out of our Houston, TX or Tallahassee, FL office.
What you’d be doing:
- Ensuring surplus lines tax transactions and filings are accurate for all states and processed within the deadlines set by those states.
- Researching, monitoring, and implementing any changes required to ensure compliance with each state’s surplus lines requirements.
- Auditing surplus lines transactions, documents, and filings.
- Track and communicate key deliverable dates and provide weekly management reports.
- Ensure adherence to company policies, established procedures, etc.
- Consistently meeting established productivity, schedule adherence, and quality standards.
- Performing other related duties and projects as assigned.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- 3+ years’ experience in Surplus Lines filing insurance or equivalent experience.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional problem solving and process design skills, with emphasis on customer experience.
- Ability to remain focused with multiple, competing deadlines.
- Strong MS Excel skills/experience.
- May require quarterly travel to one of SageSure’s offices for team collaboration.
Highly preferred candidates also have:
- A bachelor’s degree
- Surplus lines tax filing experience
About the Policy Services Team at SageSure:
Helping customers and a service mindset are at the core of SageSure’s Policy Services team approach. Policy Services roles are directly responsible for building the brand, and we take that very seriously at SageSure. Our Policy Services team is the voice of SageSure—having frequent connections with our customers. Serving the customer is fulfilling and a great way to learn about the insurance industry. Policy Services roles have career progression paths built-in, and with all the industry knowledge you’ve gained, you’ll be primed for advancement within the department or across the company. The nature of the work requires constant interfacing with other teams, including underwriting, sales and marketing. As a part of this growing team, you’ll experience a fast-paced environment that requires dynamic involvement and provides accelerated learning.
About SageSure:
Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure is one of the largest managing general underwriters (MGU) focused on catastrophe-exposed markets in the US. Since its founding in 2009, SageSure has experienced exceptional growth while generating underwriting profits for carrier partners through hurricanes, wildfires, and hail. Available in 16 states, SageSure offers more than 50 competitively priced home, flood, earthquake, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $1.9 billion of inforce premium and helps protect 640,000 policyholders.
SageSure has more than 1000 employees working remotely or in-office across nine offices: Cheshire, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Jersey City, New Jersey; Mountain View, California; Marlton, New Jersey; Tallahassee, Florida; and Seattle, Washington.
SageSure offers generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement, wellness allowance, paid volunteer time off, a matching 401K plan, and more.
SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.
Our nimble, highly responsive culture nurtures critical thinkers who run toward problems and engineer solutions. We relentlessly pursue better outcomes by investing in the technology, talent, and tools that position us to succeed in demanding markets. Come join our team! Visit sagesure.com/careers to find a position for you.
