- Strong background in financial underwriting.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Experienced underwriting in all Protection products.
- Underwrite HNW cases in accordance with Vitality's underwriting philosophy and quality standards.
- Meet and support brokers to help manage key large cases through the underwriting process.
- Liaise with our reinsurers to ensure successful placement of business.
- Work with our sales teams to develop bespoke financial underwriting solutions for key clients.
- Educate the sales teams on the large case ‘underwriting journey’ and how to navigate this.
- Help mentor and develop less experienced underwriters.
- Identify how we can improve our HNW underwriting proposition, so that we have the most compelling HNW underwriting proposition in the market.
- Broad experience of underwriting large cases requiring financial & medical underwriting.
- A sound knowledge of the reinsurance and retrocession aspects of this business.
- Existing relationships and credibility with advisors who work in this market.
- A very high level of credibility and influence with the reinsurance market.
- Experience of working closely with and mentoring senior underwriters (ideally including underwriters based at different locations).
- An excellent knowledge of all aspects of financial and medical underwriting.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Good communicator and influencer/manages conflict well.
- Good grasp of Microsoft office product.
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.