Commercial Underwriter

Commercial Underwriter

£35,000-£50,000 DOE

Monday-Friday 9am-5pm

Bolton

Are you currently working as a Commercial Underwriter?

Are you looking for better progression & development opportunities?

As a Commercial Underwriter you’ll play a critical role in managing the profitability and income of the branch, owning the financial results for designated accounts and brokers. The role demands a high level of influence on the Underwriting team, increasing the ability to collaborate with a range of stakeholders and developing the technical and trading capability of the branch.

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you’ll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed. You’ll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth, across new business within the key markets.

What you’ll bring:

• Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.
• You’ll be perceptive of what our customers and the market want, and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of our development opportunities.
• Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.
• Technical underwriting expertise in a P&C Commercial insurance environment.
• Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across P&C Commercial lines insurance operations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, through written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment.
• Coaching and development skills within in a similar environment and experience of working in teams and successful record of delivering results.
• Strong trading capability - commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.
• Pragmatic decision maker with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.
• Excellent risk assessment and risk management skills.
• Progress towards Dip CII qualification desirable or equivalent experience.
• Ability to champion the change agenda, utilising your resilience skills to identify continuous improvement and drive change through to resolution.

What we offer:

• Competitive annual salary
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Hybrid working
• Excellent pension plan above 10%+
• Life Assurance
• 33 days holiday
• Up to 21 hours volunteering leave per year
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• AXA employee discounts
• Private heath cover
• Wellbeing services & resources
• Qualification funding / training courses

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom. Also, a credit check and DBS check will be required.

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