New Business Underwriter

Markel Corporation; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking a New Business Underwriter to join their Care Sales team in the UK. This role involves underwriting a variety of care and charity risks, maintaining broker relationships, and meeting targets. With a focus on accuracy and communication, the ideal candidate will have demonstrable underwriting experience and excellent IT skills. The position offers a competitive salary, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional development in a mostly remote environment.

Benefits

Generous monthly bonus

25 days paid holiday

Fantastic company pension scheme

Private medical and dental cover

Qualifications

• Demonstrable underwriting experience in social welfare or care risks.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge of company guidelines to achieve targets.
• Provide excellent service to brokers to ensure deadlines.
• Underwrite a variety of exposures within authority.

Skills

Underwriting experience

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Broker relationship building

IT skills including MS Office

Job description

to join the Markel team. You will be a member of a successful national underwriting team dealing exclusively with a variety of care and charity risks in accordance with Markel's underwriting appetite. We are open to any location for this role as the team are mostly remote based with occasional office visits required. The role is based within the Care Sales team, dealing with a wide variety of Social Welfare, Care, Not For Profit and Charity policies. Working alongside other departments within the business to develop and maintain relationships both internally and externally and deliver an exceptional service to our brokers. The role of New Business Underwriter is to work as part of the Sales team providing an excellent underwriting service for brokers in the UK. You will work as a member of the Broker Sales Team and be pro‑active and able to develop and maintain good relationships internally and externally. You will monitor and analyse broker activity to identify success and areas for improvement and provide pro‑active feedback to the team manager. You will have responsibility for delivering an individual new business premium target and have a desire to be visible to our brokers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Demonstrate and promote a thorough knowledge of company guidelines and authority levels in order to achieve monthly, quarterly and annual new business team and individual targets
• Provide excellent service to our brokers to ensure deadlines are met
• Underwrite a variety of exposures within the defined underwriting authority
• Attend underwriting meetings as required throughout the year to provide insight into developments, trends and feedback on market conditions
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships within the wider business

Qualifications:

• Demonstrable underwriting experience - ideally in social welfare / care risks, although commercial insurance would be considered
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Track record in building and developing broker relationships
• Demonstrable IT skills including MS Office and our systems including the broker e‑trading platform
• Proven ability to secure business whilst maintaining underwriting discipline

Who we are:

Markel Corporation (NYSE - MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world. We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you:

• A great starting salary plus generous monthly bonus & strong benefits package...
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we can provide the support needed to do just that!