Mid-Market Underwriter - Property & Casualty

Mid-Market Underwriter - Property & Casualty

Monday-Friday (hybrid)

This is an exciting time to be joining our National Trading Centre (NTC), which is led by a leadership team each with over 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry. We’re looking for Commercial Underwriters who are looking for a new challenge, it’s a great opportunity as we have a strong team and are really proud of our technical capability and the profitable contribution that NTC has made to our business. With new brokers moving in, there is lots to get involved in: complex and interesting risks, brokers who want to partner with us and a great team who enjoy what they do and support one another.

Working in the NTC, we’re looking for Mid-Market Commercial Underwriters to join our Property and Casualty team, where you’ll drive profitable growth through effective underwriting, understanding risk management and delivery of our superior service.

What you’ll be doing:

• Underwrite new or existing Mid-Market business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of appetite and tools available.
• Build trading relationships with brokers, through visits and large case liaison, to maximise financial results and to generate pipeline new business opportunities.
• Build a reputation as a trading expert with a panel of intermediaries and build confidence in the branch ability through interaction with our Underwriting Technical Centre.
• Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers to portray our capabilities and secure new business opportunities.
• Demonstrate contribution to loss ratio control by effectively implementing branch UW controls.
• Identify poorly performing accounts and investigate reasons for lack of retention.
• Agree and implement actions with senior underwriter, TTM & AM to increase retention.
• Contribute to the development of colleagues by coaching and acting as a reference point to assist in decision making within empowerment.
• Support SME Hub colleagues in building trading relationships with intermediaries to enable a consistent service to be delivered.

The ideal candidate:

• Strong trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.
• Pragmatic decision making with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.
• Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment.
• Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across commercial lines insurance operations.
• Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance, including treating customers fairly.
• Experience of working in teams and a successful record of delivering results.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience within Property and Casualty discipline capability.
• Cert CII qualification with DIP CII desirable

Benefits:

• Competitive annual salary
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave
• Company employee discounts
• Gym benefits

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