Development Underwriter

Description

• Attend broker / strategic partner meetings as the technical underwriting lead and deliver presentations and training workshops as required.
• Effectively utilise internal business data sources and industry market intelligence to provide insightful data to inform strategic revenue and customer growth planning activity and support future underwriting activity
• Support and enable nationwide collaboration to maximise cross selling, increase retention and rates to ensure achievement of segment and business wide targets.
• Undertake and lead on any team or business wide projects as required
• Ensure all issues are resolved promptly ensuring ‘Customer First’ approach
• Adopt a collaborative mindset/approach with Strategic Account Managers to enable increased lead generation
• Influence, negotiate and build relationships with key internal and external influencers, ensuring engagement and ‘buy in’ to enable delivery of strategic growth plans and maximise potential underwriting opportunities.
• Attend relevant industry and market specific events, conferences and networking activities, raising HSB’s profile and increase market presence.
• Develop and maintain constructive and profitable relationships with customers through regular contact, visits and in line with specific customer strategies
• Attend training to ensure development of required knowledge and skills to enable effective undertaking of the role.
• Continuously explore new revenue channels and potential markets, being innovative in approach to identify diverse and exciting new opportunities.
• Contribute to effective loss ratio control by ensuring adherence to business strategies.
• Maintain and implement all necessary procedures and processes to ensure internal service standards and FCA Compliance.
• Work collaboratively with the Leadership Team to create a culture of high performance within the team, leading by example in adhering to the HSB behavioral standards.
• Continuously monitor and review client activity to enable strategic focus on profitable accounts
• Increase the technical and trading capability of the underwriting team, act as a technical mentor and referral point for all policy classes within the team.
• Work collaboratively with Product Leads and Underwriting Managers to ensure business acquisition is efficient and meets the customer requirements.
• Maintain accurate records within CRM systems (Dynamics 365), populating with all client interactions and activities to enable and support future opportunities and pro-active cross-segment working.

Requirements

• ACII Desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Demonstrable experience of ensuring excellent customer relationship management
• Commercially astute with business planning experience
• Pragmatic decision maker with analytical and reasoning skills
• Thorough understanding of UK Insurance market
• Self-motivated & proactive
• Demonstrable knowledge/experience of Machinery Inherent Defects Insurance (MIDI)
• Ability to convert data insights into revenue and growth plans
• Strong level of technical underwriting expertise gained in relevant insurance environment
• Strong trading capability – commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation and problem solving skills
• Demonstrable knowledge/experience of Machinery Breakdown & Business Interruption

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance