Property and Casualty Underwriter

TN United Kingdom; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 31,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Property and Casualty Underwriter to join their dynamic team in Maidstone. This role focuses on profitable growth and technical excellence, requiring strong underwriting skills and the ability to foster long-term broker relationships. The successful candidate will benefit from a generous study package for actuarial qualifications, access to top training platforms, and flexible working options. Join a company that values continuous learning and offers a range of benefits to support your career development and work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible buy/sell holiday options

Annual performance related bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Discounts on insurance products

Qualifications

• Strong technical underwriting skills in Commercial Property and Casualty.
• Ability to build and maintain positive broker relationships.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Developing broker relationships and collaborating with colleagues.
• Underwriting renewal business and negotiating for customer growth.
• Providing suggestions to continuously improve the business.

Skills

Technical Underwriting Skills

Negotiation Skills

Broker Relationship Management

Commercial Property Knowledge

Casualty Market Awareness

Teamwork

Self-Motivation

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05.05.2025

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Role Description

There is an exciting opportunity to join our successful Property & Casualty team as an Existing Business Underwriter, based in Maidstone. As an integral member of the team your focus will be on profitable growth and technical excellence in building a World class service. With ambitious growth targets for 2025 and beyond you will be a key team player helping us to reach our goals.

You must be able to proactively build long-term, sustainable business relationships in order to engender customer loyalty and achieve profitable growth in line with our ambition. Demonstrating consistently high standards of behaviour across all elements of the role, you will assist in supporting the national strategic objectives within the Region.

You'll participate in the Global P&C Academy accreditation, enhancing your skills in underwriting, risk engineering, pricing, and claims management while exchanging best practices across the Allianz Group. Furthermore, for pricing-based roles, Allianz Insurance offers a generous study package to enable the actuarial qualification to be obtained through the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK.

Our team values continuous learning, you can enjoy free access to top training platforms like DataCamp, Databricks Academy, and LinkedIn Learning. Additionally, we host Lunch and Learn sessions on key business topics hosted by experts across the team and monthly insight sessions, including the Data Science Forum and analyst forum, to refine your technical skills.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £30,500 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

As a Property and Casualty Underwriter your responsibilities will include;

• Developing broker relationships (including regular broker visits) and collaborating with your colleagues in other departments to support our ambitious growth plans.
• Underwriting renewal business
• Negotiating within authority and referring where appropriate to maximise customer growth including persuading, influencing and convincing customers of the benefits of an opposed course of action.
• Provide suggestions to continuously improve the business in an ever-changing environment
• Support the wider teams by being proactive, enthusiastic and by challenging yourself to go out of your comfort zone

To be successful in this role you will need;

• Property, Casualty and speciality lines market/product awareness
• Strong technical underwriting skills in Commercial Property and Casualty.
• The ability to build, develop and maintain positive broker relationships.
• A good team player, supportive to others with an enthusiastic and positive attitude
• Good influencing and negotiation skills.
• Strong capability for team working.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
• Strong trading skills

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact Matthew Mckevitt

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.