Casualty Underwriting Manager

Ecclesiastical Insurance UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension up to 12% employer contrib.

On-target bonus 7.5–30%

28 days annual leave + holidays

Private healthcare and life assurance

Job summary

Ecclesiastical Insurance UK is recruiting a Casualty Underwriting Manager to lead a high-performing casualty team and shape portfolio performance. You will provide technical leadership, guide underwriting decisions, and manage key relationships with third-party capacity providers and partners across Casualty and Financial Lines.

The role blends technical underwriting with people leadership, offering opportunities to influence underwriting strategy, develop talent, and drive sustainable portfolio

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Translate portfolio strategy, risk appetite and performance priorities into clear underwriting actions across pricing, risk selection, appetite and portfolio mix.
• Maintain high standards of underwriting quality, pricing discipline and coverage intent, ensuring changes do not weaken standards.
• Lead, coach and develop Portfolio Underwriters and technical specialists, setting expectations and building a collaborative team culture.
• Establish priorities for the team and coordinate resources against portfolio and business needs.
• Coordinate development and maintenance of Casualty and Financial Lines policy wordings and underwriting guidance with stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with third-party suppliers, capacity providers and other partners to keep expectations and delivery clear.

Skills

Technical underwriting

Leadership

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Analytical

Education

ACII or equivalent

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester, London, Manchester or Birmingham

Job Ref: 205585

About The Role

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 you'll need to have

• 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.

What makes you stand out

• 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.

What we offer

• 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.”

About Us

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*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

• Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26