Portfolio Underwriting Manager - Liability

pib Group; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Portfolio Underwriting Manager to enhance underwriting performance. You'll build and analyse underwriting plans, monitor targets, and drive best practices. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Construction lines and advanced analytical skills. This role offers real career progression, professional development, and a collaborative culture where your contributions matter.

Benefits

Real career progression

Professional development

Collaborative culture

Qualifications

• Proven experience operating within delegated authority/binder environments.
• Track record of pricing insight and performance management.
• Ability to model, interpret, and present data.

Responsibilities

• Build, analyse, and review underwriting plans for internal and insurer approval.
• Monitor loss ratio targets and recommend corrective actions.
• Design and embed consistent underwriting best practices.

Skills

Strong underwriting expertise within Construction lines

Advanced analytical skills

Experience in portfolio analysis

Confidence working with insurers

Ability to guide underwriters

Job description

Q Underwriting are looking to further shape and strengthen its underwriting performance by appointing a proven Portfolio Underwriting Manager You'll be a trusted expert to the CUO and wider underwriting teams-building plans, analysing performance, and driving best-practice underwriting standards with our capacity partners. What you'll be doing

• Build, analyse, and review underwriting plans, present for approval internally and with insurers.
• Attend and contribute to formal and ad hoc insurer meetings; implement agreed underwriting and pricing strategy with business underwriters.
• Take referrals where local authority is exceeded, providing clear, commercial decisions.
• Monitor loss ratio targets by binder; identify trends and recommend corrective actions.
• Analyse data and provide insights, findings, and actionable recommendations.
• Deliver impact analysis for proposed portfolio changes and model ad hoc data for capacity partners.
• Support selection and onboarding of new capacity partners.
• Partner with technical managers and business teams to diagnose performance issues and drive improvements.
• Design and embed consistent underwriting best practice (e.g., technical peer review, licence frameworks, training and development frameworks).
• Monitor adherence to underwriting standards and support proposition development for new and existing binders.
  
  Strong underwriting expertise within Construction lines, with a deep Liability focus.
• Proven experience operating within delegated authority/binder environments.
• Track record of portfolio analysis, pricing insight, and performance management (loss ratios, corrective actions).
• Confidence working directly with insurers/capacity partners; effective at influencing and following through.
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to model, interpret, and present data to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Pragmatic, collaborative style; able to guide underwriters through change and best practice adoption.
• High standards of governance and control in line with market and internal frameworks., Impactful, visible role supporting the CUO and shaping underwriting strategy.
• Collaborative culture with strong technical leadership and development.
• Opportunity to influence capacity relationships and portfolio outcomes.
  
  PIB Group is one of the UK's fastest-growing insurance businesses, offering real career progression, professional development, and a collaborative culture where your work truly matters.
We encourage our people to be collaborative, with entrepreneurship at our core. We are a fast-paced, growing organisation and an exciting place to be.We also value ambition and creative thinking. You don't have to tick every box to apply, if you bring fresh ideas and a drive to grow.