Construction Underwriter: New Business & Broker Growth

Geo Underwriting; Rayleigh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday + bank holidays

Progression across Everywhen family

CII/ACII qualifications supported

Pension scheme

Wellbeing support 24/7

Volunteering day

Spotlight Awards

Job summary

Geo Underwriting is seeking an experienced New Business Construction Underwriter with liability and CAR expertise to join our growing team. The hybrid role offers market-facing duties, broker visits, and opportunities to develop new business opportunities.

You’ll assess Liability and CAR risks, trade new business within authority, and build strong, long-term broker relationships while maintaining rigorous underwriting standards and ongoing technical development.

Qualifications

• Construction underwriting experience with Liability and CAR.
• Experience trading new business.
• Strong technical knowledge of the Construction market.
• Commercial mindset with broker negotiation.
• Ability to build long-term broker relationships.

Responsibilities

• Underwriting and trading Construction new business within agreed authority.
• Assessing Liability and CAR risks and making technically sound, commercially focused decisions.
• Proactively following up quotations and driving new business conversion.
• Developing strong broker relationships through regular contact and broker visits.
• Identifying opportunities to grow profitable business with existing and new broker partners.
• Negotiating confidently and finding solutions that work for Geo and our brokers.
• Maintaining high standards of documentation, compliance and underwriting quality.
• Continuing to develop your technical expertise and underwriting authority.
• Contributing ideas and energy to the continued development of our Construction proposition.

Skills

Construction underwriting

Broker relationships

Negotiation

Trading new business

Technical underwriting

Education

Cert CII or equivalent

Job description

Geo Underwriting is seeking an experienced New Business Construction Underwriter with liability and CAR expertise to join our growing team. The hybrid role offers market-facing duties, broker visits, and opportunities to develop new business opportunities.

You’ll assess Liability and CAR risks, trade new business within authority, and build strong, long-term broker relationships while maintaining rigorous underwriting standards and ongoing technical development.