Commercial Underwriter

TN United Kingdom; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Underwriter in Gloucester, where you'll play a vital role in managing case underwriting for charity, care, and education sectors. This permanent position offers hybrid working and the chance to develop your career within a purpose-led organization. You'll be responsible for underwriting new and existing business, ensuring exceptional customer service, and expanding your technical knowledge. With a competitive salary, generous bonuses, and a commitment to professional development, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team dedicated to making a difference.

Benefits

Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits including private healthcare

Annual personal grant to charity

Volunteering day per year

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for professional qualifications

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of commercial insurance and customer service.
• Commitment to gain professional qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite new and existing business profitably.
• Manage work to meet objectives and deliver exceptional service.
• Expand personal technical knowledge through training and networking.

Skills

Commercial insurance knowledge

Exceptional customer service

Education

Qualified Cert CII

Minimum of 5 GCSEs including Maths and English

Job description

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Working hours:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:Permanent

Location:Gloucester

Job ref: 203618

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of the Benefact Group, are looking for anUnderwriterto join our Gloucesteroffice, with hybrid working.

This role is within the Bespoke team handling case underwriting on our non-delegated authority schemes which sit within the charity, care and education niches.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing and forward thinking business, giving you a real opportunity to develop your career and be part of a purpose led organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite new/existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
• Plan, prioritise and manage individual own work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLA’s to deliver exceptional customer service.
• Use the appropriate method of communication (telephone, face to face) to support Ecclesiastical’s right first time approach in order to maintain successful Internal and External relationships.
• Act on individual audit results and agreed action plans within agreed deadlines to improve own performance
• Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business.
• Identify complaints and act upon them in line with company policy.
• Actively expand personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD)

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Commercial insurance knowledge
• Qualified Cert CII or commitment to work towards within an agreed timescale
• Minimum of 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at grade C or above or equivalent
• A proven ability to deliver exceptional customer service

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
• 25days 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
  
• Up to £300 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

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