Commercial Underwriter

Ecclesiastical Insurance UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Ecclesiastical Insurance UK is seeking a Commercial Underwriter to join their London office. This role involves managing existing business cases across multiple specialisms, fostering client relationships, and maintaining high standards in service delivery. Join a firm dedicated to embedding sustainability in its business practices and providing professional development opportunities, with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare

Full study support to gain professional qualifications

Qualifications

• Commercial combined / Property underwriting experience required.
• Willingness to achieve qualifications within an agreed timescale.
• Positive and pro-active with a can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Underwriting a renewal book across various specialisms.
• Handling client queries and mid-term adjustments.
• Collaborating with brokers to deliver high service levels.

Skills

Attention to detail

Resilience

Communication

Education

Cert CII

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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: London

Job ref: 203933

About The Role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Commercial Underwriter to join our London office.

As a commercial combined underwriter, you'll be handling existing business cases across all of our specialisms.

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 top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, 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 a renewal book across a wide array of specialisms, including charity, care, heritage, education, office and leisure
• You’ll have your own monthly renewal allocation and also deal with a select few of our large cases
• Day to day work including mid-term adjustments, client queries, reviewing surveys – all to a high standard, with clear and effective communication
• Communicating with our brokers to deliver consistently high service levels and retention of policies
• Collaborating with other members of the team, including technical referral points, and wider networking across the Benefact Group to incorporate Risk Management, Claims, Sales etc.
  
  

What you'll need to have

• Commercial combined / Property underwriting experience
• Cert CII qualified or a willingness to achieve qualifications within an agreed timescale
• Attention to detail
• Resilient, positive and pro-active with a can-do attitude
• Ability to challenge and identify opportunities for improvement
  
  

What We Offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
• 25 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
• Up to £400 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

"We're a growing, profitable team looking to hit ambitious targets - it's a really exciting time to join Ecclesiastical as we expand our appetite and name in the market."

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

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