Director of Direct Underwriting & Growth

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group; Gloucester; In loco; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

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Ecclesiastical Insurance Group in Gloucester is seeking a Head of Direct Underwriting to define and deliver the underwriting strategy across four key portfolios within the Direct business. You will lead a team of Technical Underwriters and shape pricing, profitability and customer outcomes.

Reporting to the Director of Church, you will build relationships with major customers and stakeholders and drive sustainable growth while maintaining high underwriting standards and governance across the UK.

Competenze

• Senior leadership position in underwriting requiring strategic oversight.
• Experienced technical underwriting professional with strong commercial acumen.
• Leads a team of Technical Underwriters and oversees underwriting capability.
• Builds relationships with major customers and stakeholders.

Mansioni

• Act as the senior underwriting figure head within the market and Key customers, obtaining key insight across the market to respond to both customer needs and competitor threats.
• Successfully manage portfolio to achieve financial objectives and other Key Performance Indicators, including GWP, New Business, Retention, Rate Movement and Profitability
• Develop and manage pricing strategies at portfolio and key account level, balancing retention, profitability and customer (conduct)
• A lead contributor to business planning process with appropriate and effective challenge
• Set, lead and manage the UW standards within the Business Unit & proactively engage with the UK Underwriting Risk Appetite
• Utilise individual authority framework to the benefit of the business unit and UKGI, ensuring effective cascade of authority with appropriate oversight and governance.
• Influence P&C Underwriting to ensure specific challenges of the Direct account are understood and that UW strategy is aligned to both key customer and business outcomes, with effective challenge on the strategy where this supports customer needs and the

Conoscenze

Leadership

Direct underwriting

Pricing strategy

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Descrizione del lavoro

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group in Gloucester is seeking a Head of Direct Underwriting to define and deliver the underwriting strategy across four key portfolios within the Direct business. You will lead a team of Technical Underwriters and shape pricing, profitability and customer outcomes.

Reporting to the Director of Church, you will build relationships with major customers and stakeholders and drive sustainable growth while maintaining high underwriting standards and governance across the UK.