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Head of Underwriting

Insure Recruitment
Posted a day ago, valid for 18 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Contract type

Full Time

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  • This position offers an opportunity to advance your career in Commercial Underwriting as the Head of Underwriting for a leading insurance intermediary.
  • The role requires a strong background in commercial underwriting, along with management experience, and is ideal for candidates with a proactive and entrepreneurial mindset.
  • You will oversee account management for commercial products, ensuring adherence to best practices and achieving underwriting performance targets.
  • The position is hybrid, requiring three office-based days in London and Bromley, and offers a competitive salary along with benefits and career development opportunities.
  • Candidates should have relevant experience and a passion for enhancing customer experience, with the potential for significant growth within the company.

Accelerate your insurance career path with this rewarding ‘next step’ opportunity 

If you’re hungry to develop your Commercial Underwriting insurance career path, find out just how far you can go with this incredible opportunity to join one of the world’s largest and most ambitious insurance intermediaries as the Head of Underwriting!

Your chance to shine

As a key member of the leadership team, you’ll be responsible for the account management for the commercial products delivering the underwriting and pricing strategy in the UK, providing oversight and ensuring best practice.

Working within the talented and motivated liability underwriting team, you’ll monitor progress of the company business objectives, ensure underwriting performance meets agreed targets, and advise on technical aspects of underwriting.

What you’ll bring

This role is a perfect fit for you if you are proactive, entrepreneurial, possess an innate growth mindset and will hit the ground running with the initiative to work independently. You’ll share the firm’s driving ethos, to provide outstanding risk management solutions to protect what your customers most value. And you’re passionate about improving the customer experience.

You’ll also be pivotal to team development. Drawing on your experience and management skills, you’ll be developing and training up the team. This will include acquiring and accelerating their knowledge and capabilities across a varied and niche spectrum of policies and schemes, ranging from security and arboriculture to domiciliary care and recruitment consultancy. You’ll also be expanding their appreciation of the various uses and purpose of technology to enhance customer service and fuel growth.

To thrive in this position

You’ll already have a strong background in commercial underwriting and bring expertise/knowhow across a range of products and have management experience.

The firm culture will truly fit you if you are professional, confident and driven to continually grow. In return, you’ll be offered limitless opportunity for growth and success within this firmly established, fast-paced company, a top target for ambitious candidates who are insurance rising stars.

What you’ll receive

The role is ‘hybrid flex’, requiring 3 office-based days spread between dynamic and modern offices in London and Bromley.

As you’d expect, you’ll receive an competitive salary and great benefits and career development.

Find out more. Contact Jack Boakes at Insure Recruitment and apply to the role by submitting your latest CV.

At Insure Recruitment, we work with clients who are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the above description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be exactly what we’re looking for in this or other roles.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.