Agricultural Underwriter (Home

Aston Charles; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance recruitment firm is seeking an Agricultural Underwriter for a hybrid role across the UK. You will manage relationships with brokers and clients while evaluating risks and negotiating insurance policies. The ideal candidate has a background in agricultural underwriting or a strong interest in the agricultural sector. This position offers a competitive salary and a market-leading benefits package, including a generous pension plan.

Benefits

Market-leading pension arrangement

Flexible benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in Agricultural underwriting or keen interest in the Agricultural sector.
• Technically-gifted Brokers with delegated authority experience welcome.
• Willingness to contribute to the future direction of the business.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with brokers and clients across the UK.
• Evaluate risks and determine insurance terms.
• Communicate effectively with senior staff for clarity.

Skills

Agricultural underwriting

Strong stakeholder-management

Numerate and IT skills

Job description

Overview

Job Type: Permanent. Sector: General Insurance. Specialism: Underwriting. Location: UK-Wide (Yorkshire & Humberside, London & South, Manchester & North West, North East & Scotland, Midlands & Wales). Salary range: £30,000 - £39,999, £40,000 - £49,999, £50,000 - £59,999. Salary Description: Attractive salary plus market-leading benefits. Posted: 12-Jun-25. Start Date: ASAP. Recruiter: Aston Charles. Job Ref: RJ-2280VF. Job Views: 138.

Pedigree; When it comes to MGAs, this one is a purebred – owned by a global broking giant, with capacity provided by one of the largest composite insurers in the world, it’s little wonder it can offer a ‘best in class’ service to its discerning clientele.

Already commanding a significant portion of the Agricultural / Farm insurance market, this dynamic business is committing considerable resource (financial and otherwise) to increase its market share further.

In this varied role, you will be dealing with both renewal and new business, with clients coming from both its own broking business and third-party brokers UK-wide. You will be dealing with a variety of bespoke products that are geared to the Agricultural market, such as Farm Combined, Property, Liability, and specialist products.

Responsibilities

• Managing and maintaining relationships with regional brokers, colleagues and clients across the UK.
• Identifying opportunities to offer solutions to existing clients/brokers by evaluating applicant situations and circumstances and determining insurance risks.
• Working within your delegated underwriting authority to underwrite profitable business.
• Communicating effectively with senior members of staff to ensure clarity and positive relationships across the business.
• Putting clients and customers first by working within SLAs and ensuring a high level of service is provided at all times.
• Liaising with brokers and colleagues to increase profitable relationships, both virtually and in person.
• Issuing insurance policies by calculating premium rates, as well as negotiating insurance terms and conditions with brokers.

Ideal Background

Ideally, you will come from an Agricultural underwriting background, with experience of writing Farm Combined business. However, we do welcome applications from outstanding Commercial Underwriters, who have a keen interest in the Agricultural sector, and a knowledge of the issues faced by those who live and work in the countryside. We are also keen to hear from technically-gifted Brokers, who have underwritten business via delegated authority / schemes.

You must be highly numerate, with excellent IT skills. You should also have strong stakeholder-management skills, enjoy working to shared goals and objectives, and, as a senior member of the team, be willing to contribute to the future direction of the business by suggesting new ideas.

Working Arrangement & Benefits

This is a hybrid role, and you can work several days per week in a number of office locations. However, we also welcome applications from highly experienced Agricultural Underwriters who wish to be almost exclusively home-based (if they can get to an office location every month or so).

As well as a generous basic salary, you will receive a fantastic flexible benefits package that can be tweaked to your own personal circumstances – of particular note is a market-leading pension arrangement, which effectively trebles your own contributions.

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