Senior Underwriter – P&C

Job title: Senior Underwriter

Salary: £55,000

Location: London – hybrid working

Purpose of role:

Due to an exciting time of growth, our client has new opportunities available within their commercial underwriting team. Excellent opportunity for a proven property and casualty underwriter to further develop their technical underwriting expertise through underwriting unique Commercial Combined risks as part of a fast growing and successful team in the London market.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite new/existing business within own authority and in line with our clients’ strategy.
• Provide embedded underwriting support at partner and customer sites if required.
• Plan, prioritise and manage individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLA’s to deliver exceptional customer service.
• Act as referral point for the team providing coaching, training in an appropriate time frame
• Use the appropriate method of communication (telephone, face to face) to support our client’s right first time approach in order to maintain successful Internal and External relationships.
• Working with some of the most high profile brokers in the UK to build your personal profile and maintain and develop our clients’ excellent broker relationships
• Act on individual audit results and agreed action plans within agreed deadlines to improve own performance
• Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business.
• Identify complaints, act upon them and resolve in line with company policy.
• Conduct audits and provide feedback, coaching and training as appropriate
• Provide team manager support as and when required.
• Manage a defined caseload
• Actively expand personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD)

Package:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working
• Group Personal Pension – up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• Up to £300 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Knowledge, skills and experience
• Qualified Dip CII or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale
• Market, Industry and Company knowledge
• A proven track record of delivering exceptional customer service
• Appropriate IT skills
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Experience of acting as a coach within a commercial environment
• Experience of effective stakeholder management within a commercial environment

If you have the relevant experience or know someone that does please contact us now on 0203 411 8430 or email us at admin@lawesgroup.co.uk