Senior Social Welfare Underwriter

Job title: Senior Underwriter – Social Welfare

Employee status: Permanent / Full-Time

Salary: £47,000

Department: UK National Markets Leeds

Location: Leeds

Department Overview

The role is based within the renewals department dealing with a wide variety of Social Welfare, Care, Not For Profit and Charity policies.  Working alongside other departments within the business to develop and maintain relationships both internally and externally and deliver an exceptional service to our brokers.

The role of the Senior underwriter is to work as part of the Social Welfare team providing an excellent underwriting service for brokers in the UK. You will work as a member of a team and be pro-active and willing to help brokers across all classes of business. You will be required to develop and maintain good relationships internally and externally, monitor and analyse broker activity to identify success and areas for improvement and provide pro-active feedback to the team manager. You will have responsibility for renewals with a desire to be visible to our brokers.

Duties and accountabilities

• Demonstrate and promote a thorough knowledge of company guidelines and authority levels in order to achieve profitability and underwriting objectives
• Provide excellent service to our brokers, prioritising renewals and mid-term adjustments and referrals whether emanating from our broker e-trading platform or by email/phone to ensure deadlines are met.
• Underwrite renewals including large and complex cases within the defined underwriting authority.
• Attend underwriting meetings as required throughout the year required to provide insight into developments, trends and feedback on market conditions
• Manage renewal cases working as appropriate with the broker to secure renewal and upsell/ cross-sell additional covers.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the Technical department in Leeds and the wider business.
• Develop team members’ technical knowledge through mentoring, day to day underwriting referrals and exposure to underwriting risks.
• Assisting the team and wider business with ad hoc projects.

Skills, knowledge and experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Have a demonstrable underwriting experience – ideally in social welfare/care risks, although commercial insurance would be considered.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Track record in building and developing broker relationships.
• Demonstrable IT skills including MS Office and our systems including the broker e-trading platform
• Proven ability to renew business whilst maintaining underwriting discipline
• ACII and/or similar qualification preferred.

For extra information please contact:- 

London: 0203 411 8430

Email: admin@lawesgroup.co.uk