Product Analyst II

Responsibilities

• Evaluate annually, or as needed, coverages for product improvement, competitive advantages, or as necessitated by court cases, legislative actions or State Insurance Departments to ensure UFG remains competitive and profitable.
• Collaborate with Product Supervisor and other departments within UFG to develop evolving roadmaps outlining strategic product goals.
• Maintain current systems and coverages and assist in developing new products.
• Review and analyze competitor market intelligence and bureau programs, ISO, AAIS and/or NCCI circulars.
• Build and strengthen relationships with peers, internal and external partners to support completion of projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for other departments with coverage questions including but not limited to underwriting, training, claims, pricing, and compliance.
• Draft new coverage forms and changes to existing coverage forms.
• Contributes to a pro-active product review process with recommendations for product improvement.
• Prepare filing documents and provide guidance to filing analysts.
• Mentor and train new Product Analysts as needed on systems, procedures, processes, and department culture; as well as creating/updating training documentation.
• Provide clear and accurate communication on product decisions and recommendations.
• Articulate requirements for system application related product changes.

Education

Experience

Knowledge, skills & abilities

• Familiarity and comfort with ISO, AAIS, NCCI and other bureaus.
• Familiarity and comfort with market and competitive research tools.
• Ability to self-manage workload, stay organized, and create priorities to achieve goals set with supervisor.
• Approaches targeted business problems with critical thinking, collaboration, and a solution focused mindset.
• Clear understanding of departmental and enterprise processes.
• Collaborate with internal and external resources to meet customer's needs.
• Motivated and curious, comfortable asking questions and performing research of issues.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment that inspires a positive culture of constant learning and teamwork
• Ability to be creative with solutions.
• Self-confident with the ability to hear and understand others to come up with collaborative decisions.
• Comfortable articulating desired product changes to supporting departments.
• Familiar with software commonly used at UFG such as Microsoft Office products, SERFF, AM Best, ACL, Guidewire, Smart Communications, Tableau, JIRA, Confluence, and Miro.

Working Conditions

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