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My client is seeking a junior candidate to assist the underwriters writing a book of Commercial Property business. Amongst other responsibilities, you will will be trained to use RMS to analyse cat risk and portfolio level aggregate accumulations and help the Underwriters to hit or exceed the business plan underwriting profit. This is a client facing role, dealing with internal and external stakeholders. You will either be a graduate looking for your first insurance role with a scientific degree and solid technical skills in Excel or SQL or Python, or already have some experience in the GI market in a similar role.

Calling all Senior Property Underwriters, we have a truly one of a kind opportunity that we are delighted to bring to market. We are currently working with an ambitious Property investment firm, that are now looking to launch a new Property focused Insurance MGA , and this where you come in!

They are looking for a Senior Property Underwriter to join them to head this up, so this represents a truly outstanding opportunity for someone who wants to make their mark in the market, with them offering an equity stake and strong performance related bonuses.

In this role, you will be responsible for creating and working on a business plan to get this business launched. They also need you to work on and agree Capacity providers and creating the internal infrastructure, and then be responsible for onboarding some of your existing broker relationships, developing new ones, and driving underwriting performance, and spearheading the development of their underwriting strategies.

You will work closely with the investors to get this business off the ground, and once this is done have the opportunity to build a team. They would also consider someone who can bring a small team with them from the beginning, so if you have an underwriter and an assistant underwriter who work with you currently and you would all like to make this exciting jump together, they can facilitate this.

This role will need to be based from their South Woodford office at least 2 or 3 days a week with the rest being able to be based from home should you wish.

To be considered you will need to be a Senior Property Underwriter (they would also consider a senior commercial underwriter who has strong property exposure within a combined role)

Salary on offer is £90-£170,000 depending upon you, the individual and your proposed plan and contacts within the market, with equity stake in the business and performance related bonuses, though if you are looking for a bit more on the salary, please do not rule this out as they are happy to look at tailoring a package to suit.

If you would like to discuss this role in more detail, please reach out to Kieran at CKB Recruitment.

The Role

We have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced underwriter to join our Fortune 500 specialty insurance client. This role is critical to driving forward the renewals across their care, construction and professional indemnity books of business and stimulating further growth through building and developing relations with brokers nationally.

This is a role for someone looking to forward their career within underwriting, who has excellent relationship building skills and will be involved with the underwriting of these areas of business within the renewal team.

What we are looking for in you?

• Have a proven track record in large case Underwriting, with experience in Broker/Commercial Insurance.
• Able to demonstrate effective management of corporate clients and proposition development
• Be self-starting and success-oriented individuals and have a desire to build a market leading business.
• Be a creditable and engaging representative of Markel.
• Have effective communication skills.
• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Collaborative nature, capable of working in sync with the Broker Channel Exec and leadership group.

What you will be doing?

The large client underwiting lead will enhance the experience of large clinets and brokers by focusing on retention and developing strategies to renew high-value accounts with the target accounts being those valued at over 100,000. You will:

• Work closely with the Head of Renewals, Distribution team and Senior Underwriters to agree strategies to effectively renew large clients.
• Ensure that full proposition is utilised and communicated to brokers and clients to maximise our niche expertise and place in the market.
• Work in tandem with the Broker Distribution Senior Leadership Team to ensure alignment and collaboration and agree key brokers to target and visit.
• Oversight of all large cases, agreeing renewal strategy with key stakeholders, and being the face of Markel to the customer.
• Direct ownership of agreed key cases
• Market facing role to demonstrate the breadth of our appetite and offering.
• Ownership of renewal KPIs for large cases
• Identify new opportunities and bring these to life - cross selling where appropriate.
• Develop a business plan outlining your focus areas and identified opportunities

What next?

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