Assistant Underwriter, Leeds

Assistant Underwriter

Hybrid/Central Leeds

£Excellent + bonus + Exceptional Benefits

Are you looking to develop your underwriting career?

Help us provide an outstanding underwriting service to clients and brokers across the UK here at Markel

What part will you play? If you're looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you've found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you'll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We're always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special !

The opportunity:

We have a great opportunity for an Assistant Underwriter to join our team based in Leeds. The Assistant Underwriter will work as part of the Professional Management Risks team providing an excellent underwriting service for brokers in the UK. The role will be working within the renewals department as part of a renewals team, dealing with a wide variety of Professional and Management Risks and Cyber policies. Working alongside other departments within the business to develop and maintain relationships both internally and externally and deliver an exceptional service to our brokers.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide and maintain a good level of underwriting, demonstrating a thorough knowledge of company guidelines and authority levels
• Underwriting risks in accordance within your own personal level of underwriting authority
• Provide an excellent service to our brokers, prioritising renewals and mid-term adjustments and referrals whether emanating from the broker e-trading platform, Acturis or by email/phone to ensure deadlines are met
• Ensure incoming calls to the team are answered promptly and professionally
• Diarise and follow up renewals with brokers with the purpose of securing and retaining business
• Review broker generated activities and encourage broker to deal with Markel by highlighting our product benefits and negotiating terms. Analyse broker performance and report findings to the team manager
• Manage renewal cases working as appropriate with the broker to secure renewal and upsell/ cross-sell additional covers
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the Technical teams in Leeds and the wider business
• Assisting the team and wider business with ad hoc projects

Our must haves:

• Proven relevant insurance experience and demonstrable technical skills
• Background and experience in our classes of business is desirable, but not necessary
• Excellent written, spoken communication and numerical skills
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Demonstrable IT skills including MS Office
• Be studying for/or be willing to study for CII qualifications - fully funded and support by the company

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

Avencia Consulting are an RPO who provide a recruitment service to our client Markel International.

What's in it for you?

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave
• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

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Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.