The Company
Our client is a market leader in insurance and risk management, recognised for their commitment to innovation, customer focus, and delivering high standards across a range of insurance products. With regional hubs throughout the UK, they’re expanding their Service Delivery Underwriting team to support a growing client base. Known for fostering a supportive culture and offering extensive development opportunities, this company provides the best of both worlds: structured teamwork and the flexibility of a hybrid working model.
The Role
As a Service Delivery Underwriter, you’ll join an experienced team managing volume underwriting for Art and Private Client products. This role involves underwriting policies across direct and broker channels, including household, motor, and travel insurance, with a focus on delivering high standards aligned with sales objectives. You’ll play an essential part in achieving monthly targets for profitability, GWP, conversion, and retention, while closely collaborating with regional teams to influence and meet portfolio underwriting targets. This role offers a chance to develop underwriting strategy expertise, product knowledge, and experience with the latest state-of-the-art underwriting platforms.
Key Skills and Experience
- Underwriting Expertise: Personal lines underwriting experience is essential, ideally within a collaborative, high-performance team setting.
- Analytical Skills: A logical and methodical thinker capable of managing complex underwriting cases and making data-driven decisions.
- Relationship Building: Strong interpersonal skills to develop trusted relationships with brokers and other stakeholders.
- Team Player: A collaborative individual who contributes to team success and understands the impact of shared goals.
- Proactive Mindset: Someone who takes initiative, motivated to meet ambitious targets, and committed to ‘going the extra mile’ for clients and the team.
- Qualifications: Diploma CII or relevant underwriting qualifications preferred.
- Experience Handling Higher TSI: Experience underwriting property TSI of £2-5m+ is required, with competency in policies up to £20m TSI, including perils such as motor, contents, and residential contract works is preferred.
Location
Roles are available in Colchester, York, and Manchester.
