Senior Commercial Underwriter
Location: Gloucestershire
Salary: Up to £45,000
A Senior Commercial Underwriter is required to join one of the top Insurance Companies within the South west. You will be required to supervise and develop teams of Commercial Underwriters to write profitable commercial insurance business to meet the Commercial strategy and business objectives
Responsibilities:
Manage a team of Commercial Underwriters to achieve the balance of account growth by meeting new business, renewal pricing and account quality objectives set in the corporate objectives
Ensure that underwriting guidelines and procedures are in place
Undertake appraisals, coaching, and recruitment of staff for the Commercial Underwriting teams to ensure capability is managed across the department to meet business needs
Manage the Commercial Underwriting teams to ensure development of profitable relationships with brokers and broking groups
Deal with referrals outside the experience and/or authority of Commercial Underwriters in the underwriting teams
Undertake and support Commercial account management development work to ensure the Commercial strategy is achieved
Work includes operational developments and improvements, technical support and assistance with product development
Skills:
Excellent organisational skills to achieve the level of co-ordination required
Numerical proficiency sufficient to deal with expense evaluation and underwriting
In depth underwriting experience in property, pecuniary, and liability classes of insurance equally, and for all relevant classes across a wide variety of products and trades
The ability to assess technical risk and make decisions at the highest level
The ability to draft new wordings and endorsements
Good understanding of the regulatory environment for the industry and the Commercial insurance environment.
ACII/Diploma or equivalent technical insurance qualification
