Senior Commercial Insurance Broker

Job title: Senior Commercial Broker

Salary: £40,000

Location: Edinburgh

Purpose of role:

This truly independent insurance broker with a long history of providing commercial and personal insurance risk solutions is expanding in Edinburgh.

With a focus on property owners, manufacturing, engineering, charity & care, construction, haulage, motor trade, professions and many more areas within commercial insurance, they have built a strong brand and are regarded by many as a highly reputable insurance broking company.  Due to continued success, they are looking for a Senior Commercial Broker to join their team to work alongside the company director.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with company director, handling key commercial insurance accounts.
• Deal with new and existing business quotations, renewals, MTA’s, policy issue, market submissions, etc.
• Accompany director on client visits to enable you to build client rapport.
• Provide a professional and cost-effective service to all clients.
• Ensure insurer relationships are nurtured.
• Act as technical reference point for less experienced broking staff.

Experience:

• Track record of broking commercial insurance risks from SME to large size risks.
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise work efficiently to Service Level Agreements whilst ensuring high attention to detail.
• Broad Experience of broking property, motor, BI, EL, PL, commercial combined, etc essential.
• Confident handling new and existing business, renewals, MTAs, market submission etc.
• Cert CII/ACII (or is prepared to work towards this qualification).
• Proficient in Microsoft products (namely Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Proficient in Acturis.
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and relationship-building skills.
• Customer care.

Benefits:

• Holiday entitlement of 26 days plus bank holidays.
• Realistic opportunity to move into a management role.
• Support with CII or ACII qualifications to boost your knowledge and career prospects.
• Pension scheme.
• Hybrid working.

For more information on this role, please contact elaine.mccrink@lawesgroup.co.uk