New Business Underwriter

Markel International; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous monthly bonus

Pension scheme

Private medical and dental cover

25 days paid holiday

Income protection and travel insurance

Season ticket loan

Job summary

A leading insurance firm is seeking a New Business Underwriter to join their team, offering a hybrid working model across their UK offices including Leeds. This role involves underwriting care and charity risks while delivering excellent service to brokers. Candidates should have relevant underwriting experience, strong communication skills, and a detail-oriented mindset. An attractive salary, generous vacation, and comprehensive benefits await the right candidate in a supportive and diverse working environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable underwriting experience in social welfare/care risks or commercial insurance.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Track record in building and developing broker relationships.
• Demonstrable IT skills including MS Office.
• Proven ability to secure business while maintaining underwriting discipline.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge of company guidelines to achieve team targets.
• Provide excellent service to brokers to meet deadlines.
• Underwrite a variety of exposures within defined authority.
• Attend underwriting meetings to provide market insight.
• Develop relationships within the wider business.

Skills

Underwriting experience

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Broker relationships

IT skills

Underwriting discipline

Tools

MS Office

Broker e-trading platform

Job description

Join to apply for the New Business Underwriter role at Markel International.

Do you have new business underwriting experience and are looking to progress your career with a truly people‑focused business?

Come and work with our New Business Underwriting team here at Markel.

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a New Business Underwriter 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 hybrid working role across our Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester offices.

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

Our must haves

• 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.

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!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at [e-mail] or call us at 0161‑507‑5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.

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