Senior Corporate Underwriter
Location: Manchester/Hybrid
Opportunity to join an Insurer with ambitious plans to grow and at the same time offer an exciting proposition for the Manchester broker market and their customers. Looking for a senior trader to drive profitable growth through Mid-Market and Corporate clients with a turnover of around £250m upwards and develop key relationships.
Duties
- Underwrite new and existing business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices.
- Proactively lead the development of strong trading relationships with panel of brokers, taking full ownership for the generation of profitable business from nominated panel.
- Proactively develop a robust pipeline of appropriate new business opportunities and ensure that long-term pipeline is realised by ensuring broker / client engagement.
- Lead meetings, presentations and tender responses with brokers / end customers to secure new business opportunities.
- Coach, train and develop Senior Underwriters to continually improve their technical and trading capability from a New and Existing business perspective.
- Act as the referral point for Senior Underwriters within the team, providing technical and trading input to improve the quality of decisions.
- Work with Underwriting Manager to actively manage and review underwriting standards and licences within the team ensuring effective management and deployment of empowerment.
- Effectively promote and deploy company strategy, product range, propositions and key differentiators to leverage commercial opportunities.
Experience/Skills
- ACII qualification desirable.
- Excellent negotiation and sales skills.
- Mid-corporate underwriting experience is essential eg slip based business, bespoke wordings, international and captives.
- Experience of large case and portfolio management in the Commercial Property and Casualty sector, including client exposure.
- High level of technical product knowledge for Commercial Property and Casualty classes.
- Time management and prioritisation skills.
- Established networking and relationship building skills.
- Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance.
- High level of communication and negotiation skills with the ability to build positive relationships at all levels both internally and externally.
- Ability to identify and convert business opportunities.