Job Title: Construction Liability Underwriter
Location: North West
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Salary: £65,000 per annum + OTE
Insurance Industry Sectors: Insurance, Insurer, Construction, Construction Liability.
On behalf of our client, we are excited to offer an opportunity to become part of a top-tier Global Construction Underwriting team in the North West. We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Construction Liability Underwriter to join a dynamic and well respected insurer within the market.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance relationships with brokers, industry associations, business partners, reinsurers, and colleagues to amplify influence and attain business goals.
- Continuously advance expertise and technical acumen through suitable development programs.
- Underwrite insurance risks in alignment with the business plan and personal authority, aiming to meet business objectives, which includes negotiating rates, terms, and conditions for both existing and new business.
- Ensuring compliance with contract certainty requirements for the production and issuance of documentation.
- Stay abreast of all advised Construction claims, offering input on settlements to inform future Underwriting strategies.
- Assist in coordinating Risk Engineering activities for the existing portfolio, reviewing Risk Survey reports and seeking additional information when necessary.
- Contribute to and influence the review and analysis of the portfolio, identifying progress toward business objectives.
- Adhere to underwriting standards, instructions, and best practices to mitigate risk.
Skills and Experience:
- Strong experience within the construction sector of the insurance industry, ideally with a sway more towards the industrial lines.
- Effective and compelling communication skills, coupled with the capacity to challenge and persuade others.
- Proficiency in analysing and utilising data to make informed decisions.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Familiarity with pertinent market conditions pertaining to specific classes/portfolios.
- Thorough understanding of legal and regulatory frameworks.
- Comprehension of class-specific underwriting principles and reinsurance practices.
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