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Job Title: Senior Motor Portfolio UnderwriterContract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option availableSalary Range: £48,000 - £65,000Location: Hybrid -Eastleigh, Bournemouth, Gloucester, London
Senior Motor Portfolio Underwriter:
Our Eastleigh based Underwriting team are looking to bring on board a fresh and dynamic Senior Underwriter to join their busy team.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Motor Underwriter who will be working on our Broker Motor portfolio. The Senior Underwriting will be working closely with the Pricing and Distribution teams and will be supporting the development of new rating concepts as well as alternative trading models. Through this development they will be responsible for the implementation of new factors, managing our rate strength and strengthening our forward looking understanding of risk.
The Senior Motor Underwriting will be specialise in portfolio management, therefore strong numeracy and communication skills are an absolute must for this role to be able to gather, interpret and present segmentation information to numerous stakeholders internally and externally
Main Responsibilities as a Senior Motor Portfolio Underwriter:
- To support the profitable growth of the Broker Private Car Portfolio through ongoing analytical review of our KPIs.
- To review the underwriting acceptance rules and documentation and make underwriting changes/recommendations, as appropriate, to deliver profitable performance and optimise profitable growth.
- To recommend new underwriting concepts, product covers and documentation by utilising market / legal / competitor analysis.
- To support the Pricing team by recommending new enhancements or alterations to pricing or underwriting.
- Take responsibility for our Underwriting Footprint and support our Strategy team in broadening our competitive footprint across the broker portfolio.
- Key Liaison point with brokers, partners, external service providers and internal Sales, Claims and other management teams.
Skills and experience you need as a Senior Motor Portfolio Underwriter:
- A sound understanding of underwriting and pricing principles and experience of a wide range of technical issues affecting the Personal Motor Insurance Market.
- A very high degree of numeracy with a strong ability to analyse and interpret large quantities of data.
- Excellent skills in explaining, both internally and externally to key business partners, the interpretation of policy wordings, underwriting decisions and the outcome of audits.
- Ability to work with people at all levels, internally and externally.
- Confident decision-maker who exhibits a willingness to take responsibility.
- Ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines, managing multiple work streams and stakeholders.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Senior Motor Portfolio Underwriter role based in any UK Office:
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave
About Ageas:We’re one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.
Click on the ‘Apply button’ to be considered for our Senior Motor Portfolio Underwriter opportunity at Ageas in any UK Office.
