Broker Risk Selection Manager

Allianz UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Annual performance bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Discounts on insurance products

Development days

Volunteering days

Job summary

Allianz UK is seeking a Risk Selection Manager to lead the Personal Lines Motor pricing and underwriting team. You will oversee underwriters and pricing analysts to ensure sustainable profitable growth, proactive broker performance management, and excellent customer outcomes.

Based in London or Chelmsford, this hybrid role requires attendance 50% of the time. You will collaborate with pricing, distribution, product delivery, and other teams to maintain competitive broker propositions and strong

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing broker performance to targets in personal lines.
• Strong pricing and underwriting principles, broker book management, data enrichment and risk selection.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams, including underwriters, analysts and pricing professionals.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex performance, risk and market data.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience influencing decisions across multiple business functions.
• Ability to lead cross‑function teams to deliver on broker specific projects, including new products and data enrichment.
• Commercial awareness balancing growth, profitability and customer outcomes with proactive account management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of underwriters and pricing analysts, creating a high‑performing environment.
• Deliver broker KPIs through underwriting governance, pricing action and risk management.
• Monitor motor portfolio performance, identify trends, opportunities and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Pricing, Technical Pricing & Underwriting, Claims, Commercial Trading, Distribution and Product Delivery.
• Use internal and external data to support underwriting and pricing strategy, product development and portfolio optimisation.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and technical leadership for underwriting and pricing capability.

Skills

Broker performance

Pricing & underwriting

Team leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Cross‑functional collaboration

Communication skills

Portfolio risk management

Tools

Pricing tools

Machine learning concepts

Job description

Role Description

Allianz Personal are looking for a Risk Selection Manager to join our Personal Lines Broker Standard Motor Pricing & Underwriting team. In this leadership role, you willlead a team of Underwriters and Pricing Analysts to deliver sustainable profitable growth, pro‑active broker account performance management and excellent customer outcomes.

You will play a key role in the day to day management of Standard Motor broker account performance, identifying emerging risks and opportunities, and working closely withPortfolio Pricing, Commercial Trading, Distribution, Product Delivery teams, as well as our brokers, to ensure our broker propositions remain competitive and sustainable.

Location: This role is based in either our London or Chelmsford offices, please note that this is a hybrid working role with the expectation that attend the office 50% of your time.

Salary Information

Pay is based on experience, skills and location, and forms part of our total rewards package.

About You

• You will lead a team of Underwriters and Pricing Analysts, creating a high‑performing and collaborative environment.
• You will deliver broker KPIs through effective underwriting governance, pricing action and risk management.
• You will monitor motor portfolio performance, identifying trends, opportunities and areas requiring corrective action.
• You will work closely with the Portfolio Pricing, Technical Pricing & Underwriting, Claims, Commercial Trading, Distribution and Product Delivery teams to drive profitable growth and strong customer outcomes.
• You will use internal and external data (including unique broker data) and market insight to support underwriting and pricing strategy, product development and portfolio optimisation.
• You will provide coaching, mentoring and technical leadership, supporting the ongoing development of underwriting and pricing capability.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience managing broker performance to deliver against targets within a personal lines insurance environment.
• Strong understanding of pricing and underwriting principles, broker book management, data enrichment and risk selection.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams, including underwriters, analysts and pricing professionals.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex performance, risk and market data.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience influencing decisions across multiple business functions.
• Ability to lead cross‑function teams to deliver on broker specific projects, ranging from delivery of new products, to assessment and incorporation of unique data enrichment.
• Commercial awareness with the ability to balance growth, profitability and customer outcomes.This to include pro‑active account management and identification of divergence from targets and formulation of corrective action for stakeholder approval.
• Confident presentation and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical insight into business actions.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working closely with pricing models, segmentation strategies and portfolio optimisation techniques.
• Knowledge of insurance pricing tools, machine learning models or related analytical technologies.
• Relevant pricing and underwriting qualifications or equivalent industry experience.
• Ability to utilise Artificial Intelligence tools, understanding their appropriateness and limitations.

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Inclusive Support & Accessibility

At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.

If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for any assistance with during the recruitment process including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications. [e-mail]

Closing date 11/11/26

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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