Job Title: Technical Underwriter
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary Range: £35,200 - £52,800
Location: Eastleigh – visit to office on average once a week
Technical Underwriter: The Technical Underwriting Team at Ageas deliver to promise by providing the technical expertise and oversight to deliver products and product change to market in line with business and regulatory requirements and maintaining their integrity throughout the product lifecycle. Simply put, the Technical Underwriting Team are ‘Product Controllers'.
Your responsibilities as a Technical Underwriter will include:
- Facilitate change and create business requirements on behalf of the Underwriting team.
- Supporting projects, providing technical underwriting knowledge, such as Policy Wording, Rating Impacts and Technical Specification.
- Managing and resolving rating and product issues, root cause analysis, resolution, and process improvements.
- Creation of technical wording to support Pricing and Underwriting changes.
- Work closely with account managers, pricing teams and operational areas.
What you will need to succeed in the Technical Underwriter Role:
- Relevant Qualification e.g. CII, HND, Prince2
- An excellent eye for detail is essential, as well as the ability to recognise and flag business risks.
- Ability to convey complex underwriting information to stakeholders of all levels.
- Excellent grammatical and numerical skills are essential.
- Knowledge of the insurance industry and proposition delivery
- Strong ability to analyse, investigate and solve complex issues.
- Organised and thorough, with strong prioritisation skills.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel to intermediate level, as well as the full outlook suite.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Technical Underwriter role based in Eastleigh:
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 31 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave
About Ageas:
We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.
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