Casualty Underwriting Manager

The Benefact Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension - up to 12%

Bonus 7.5% to 30%

28 days annual leave + holidays

Private healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme

Study support for professional quals

Volunteer day per year

Job summary

The Benefact Group seeks a Casualty Underwriting Manager to lead a high performing commercial Casualty team in London. You will provide technical leadership, mentor portfolio underwriters and shape portfolio strategy in collaboration with senior leadership.

This role blends underwriting expertise with people leadership and stakeholder management, including third-party capacity relationships, with hybrid working and a generous benefits package.

Qualifications

• Strong technical underwriting experience in casualty and/or financial lines.
• ACII qualification or progress towards a professional credential.
• Proven leadership and coaching capability for underwriting teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Casualty and Financial Lines portfolio.
• Translate strategy and risk appetite into underwriting actions.
• Maintain high underwriting quality, pricing discipline and coverage intent.
• Lead, coach and develop Portfolio Underwriters and specialists.
• Set priorities and coordinate resources to portfolio needs.
• Develop and maintain policy wordings and underwriting guidance.
• Manage third-party capacity relationships and governance.

Skills

Technical underwriting

Leadership

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Pricing

Education

ACII qualification

Tools

Underwriting software

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Casualty Underwriting Manager to join our well-established, high performing commercial Casualty team As Casualty Underwriting Manager, you will provide technical leadership and support the sustainable development and performance of our casualty portfolio. Working with senior casualty leadership, you will lead and develop a team of portfolio underwriters and technical specialists, act as a senior referral point and translate portfolio priorities into practical underwriting action. You will also manage key relationships with third-party capacity providers and partners. This is an opportunity to play an influential role within a specialist casualty head office underwriting function, combining technical underwriting and people leadership with the chance to shape portfolio.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that's committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group - where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Underwriting Leadership - Provide visible technical leadership across Casualty and Financial Lines portfolio, acting as a senior referral and escalation point and promoting consistent, high-quality underwriting decisions
• Portfolio Strategy & Performance - Translate portfolio strategy, risk appetite and performance priorities into clear underwriting actions across pricing, risk selection, appetite and portfolio mix. Use performance insight to identify emerging risks and opportunities and ensure appropriate action is taken.
• Underwriting Quality & Discipline - Maintain high standards of underwriting quality, pricing discipline and coverage intent, ensuring that business or operational change does not inadvertently weaken agreed underwriting standards.
• People Leadership & Capability - Lead, coach and develop Portfolio Underwriters and technical specialists, setting clear expectations and building a positive, accountable and collaborative team culture. Support technical development, authority progression and talent development.
• Priorities & Delivery - Establish clear priorities for the team and coordinate resources and activity against portfolio and business needs. Lead or support strategic underwriting initiatives and identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve the underwriting journey.
• Products, Coverage & Wordings - Coordinate the development and maintenance of Casualty and Financial Lines policy wordings and underwriting guidance. Work with Product, Claims, Legal, Compliance and underwriting stakeholders to ensure coverage changes are appropriately understood, governed and implemented.
• Third-Party & Capacity Relationships - Manage key relationships with third-party suppliers, capacity providers and other strategic partners, ensuring underwriting expectations, responsibilities and delivery requirements remain clear and appropriately governed.

What makes you stand out

• Strong technical underwriting experience in casualty, financial lines or both, including experience of case underwriting and pricing
• Experience of complex referrals and underwriting decisions.
• Experience of leading, coaching and developing underwriting professionals.
• A sound understanding of portfolio management, underwriting performance and governance frameworks.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and contribute to projects or change initiatives.
• Strong communication, analytical and stakeholder management skills.

Required Experience

• Experience across Employers' Liability, Public Liability, Professional Indemnity, Management Liability, Cyber or associated classes.
• Knowledge of policy wording development, coverage governance and product governance.
• Experience of schemes, MGAs or third-party delegated authority arrangements.
• Experience of underwriting technology, data or workflow improvement.
• ACII qualification, or progress towards an appropriate professional qualification.

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK. As a business, we've been trusted to protect some of the UK's best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we're not standing still. We're a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more. Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade

We welcome applications from everyone. If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

Benefits

• Directory of Social Change's UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26
• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 7.5% and 30%
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Hear from the hiring manager "This is an important technical leadership role within our casualty underwriting function. We are looking for someone who can bring strong underwriting judgement, develop our people and turn portfolio priorities into practical underwriting action. You will have the opportunity to influence our underwriting approach, strengthen capability across the team and help shape the sustainable development of the portfolio."