Assistant Underwriter

CFC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An insurance company based in London is seeking an Assistant Underwriter to support the Intellectual Property team. This role involves handling broker inquiries, maintaining underwriting reports, and building strong broker relationships to develop business opportunities. Candidates should be analytical, motivated, and possess strong communication skills. Direct underwriting experience isn’t essential, but a background in insurance is important. Join a collaborative team that encourages learning and growth in your underwriting career.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical ability and logical thinking.
• Excellent numeracy skills and clear communication.
• Experience within insurance is important.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and manage enquiries from brokers timely.
• Maintain IP renewal and prospect list.
• Support team in developing new business opportunities.
• Maintain and produce regular underwriting reports.
• Explain features and benefits of IP insurance products.
• Assist with internal and external events on products.

Skills

Analytical ability

Logical thinking

Problem-solving skills

Communication

Numeracy

MS Office proficiency

Job description

Assistant Underwriter

Application Deadline: 10 October 2025

Department: Media & IP

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: GB - London

Reporting To: Maddi Brown

Description

As an Assistant Underwriter, you’ll play a key role in supporting our Intellectual Property team across all aspects of underwriting. This will include handling new business and renewals, responding to broker queries, and gradually building your own broker relationships to support business development.

About the role

You’ll be exposed to a wide range of intellectual property risks, spanning multiple territories and business sectors. The role will require curiosity to understand complex and evolving risks, as well as strong organisational skills to manage and prioritise effectively.

• Respond to and manage enquiries from brokers in a timely and professional manner, producing new and renewals quotations within agreed SLAs and authority parameters;
• Maintain and update the IP renewal and prospect list in a timely manner;
• Support the team to develop and seek out new business opportunities, building strong broker relationships (both face to face and over phone) to create profitable IP business;
• Maintain and producing regular underwriting reports around the portfolio as required;
• Explain the features, advantages and benefits of IP insurance products, coverage enhancements, support product launches and raise awareness of new and existing products;
• Assist with the preparation and delivery of internal and external events/presentations on CFC products, key trends and emerging exposures;

About you

You’re motivated, determined, and eager to succeed. With strong analytical ability, logical thinking and critical problem-solving skills paired excellent numeracy with clear and confident communication.

Confident and self-driven, you enjoy working to deadlines and achieving results. You’re comfortable using MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and above all, you thrive in a team environment where collaboration leads to shared success.

While direct underwriting experience isn’t essential, experience within insurance is important. Most of all, you bring a genuine interest in emerging risks and a desire to learn. In return, you’ll be supported by a collaborative, experienced team who will help you build your underwriting expertise and develop your career.

Core Values

Love what you do: We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.

Challenge everything: We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.

Have fun, be good: Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.