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SalaryJob Title:Home Underwriter / Senior Home Underwriter
Locations: Manchester, Whitstable, Chelmsford, London, (Hybrid working)
Role Overview
To support the Product Head in delivering the agreed business plan. Provide Product and Technical support both internally and externally.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Product Head in the Management of key broker accounts and other agreed key business relationships, to maintain and develop profitable accounts, and to explore any product opportunities and resolve issues that exist.
- To research the market, through broker research, media and personal contacts, so as to remain up to date on all developing issues and opportunities to report to the Product Head.
- Nurture broker relationships to meet the needs of the business plan.
- Understand underwriting performance metrics to enable collation and presentation of key broker information to the Product Head at agreed intervals and dealing with ad-hoc requests relating to products, pricing and MI.
- To investigate and respond to internal and external queries in relation to underwriting referrals and policy issues.
- Encourage internal collaboration with relevant departments.
- Actively promote Group brands.
- Represent the division internally or externally if required with the Product Head and/or Divisional Head.
- To manage, maintain and review the product range to ensure they remain current, competitive, compliant and able to meet business targets in respect of allocated accounts and/or schemes.
- Management of key accounts and other agreed key business relationships, to maintain and develop profitable accounts, and to explore any product opportunities and resolve issues that exist.
About You
- Commercial awareness, process awareness.
- Experience within home insurance market.
- Understand key performance indicators.
- Work well within a team environment as well as able to self-motivate and use initiative.
- Good knowledge of Excel functions.
- Good communication skills.
- Data analysis including presentation of observations and proposed actions.
- Knowledge of SAS software would be beneficial
