Property & Casualty Underwriter

RSA; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

RSA is hiring a Commercial Underwriter to work with brokers, optimizing growth through effective underwriting decisions. The ideal candidate will have a background in Commercial Property or Casualty Underwriting, ready to build strong relationships and drive business success. We offer a hybrid working environment, a supportive culture, and numerous development opportunities.

Benefits

Pension contributions up to 11%

Flexible working options

Continuous development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in Commercial Property or Casualty Underwriting.
• Ability to build relationships with insurance brokers.
• Capable of writing profitable business to ensure account growth.

Responsibilities

• Work with brokers to optimize profitable growth by underwriting Commercial Property & Casualty policies.
• Identifying, discussing, negotiating, and converting/renewing business opportunities.

Skills

Underwriting

Relationship Management

Business Development

Job description

Introduction

At RSA, we believe insurance is about people, not things. We provide our inspiring colleagues the support and opportunity to grow together, shape the future, and win as a team. We are going through a transformation journey, providing our people with opportunity to be integral to improving our service and delivering better products to brokers and customers. We are a proud member of the Intact family, we feel part of something bigger, with a presence in North America, the UK and Europe.

We have a bold ambition to become the best Commercial Lines business in the UK, demonstrated by our recent acquisition of NIG and Farmweb, allowing us to scale by leveraging our combined financial strength and importantly ensure our people feel the benefits of our joint capabilities.

We are currently recruiting for a Commercial Underwriter to join our established and experienced Outer London team here at RSA on a hybrid basis.

Your Role

This role involves working with selected brokers to optimise profitable growth. You will apply a range of underwriting, relationship management and business development techniques to help achieve this growth. This applies to a range of new and/or existing cases within our agreed process and defined underwriting appetite.

You will spend most of your time working with your selected brokers, identifying, discussing, negotiating and converting/renewing new/existing business opportunities and making effective underwriting decisions. Within this role you will underwrite Commercial Property & Casualty policies.

About You

To be successful in your role of Commercial P&C Underwriter you will require experience within Commercial Property or Casualty Underwriting from either a New Business or Existing Business perspective.

You will be able to build working relationships with insurance brokers and write profitable business to ensure growth of the account.

What we offer you

At RSA we put our people first. We have adopted hybrid working as standard, to give you a better work/life balance and an excellent flexible working mindset. That is on top of a comprehensive range of benefits, including pension contributions of up to 11% looking after you now, and in the future.

We will give you countless opportunities to continuously develop, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts, the best the industry has to offer. You will be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Our employee promise allows you to shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.

About Us

We celebrate individuality and it is important to us that we have a culture where our people feel respected and valued for who they are. We pride ourselves on being accessible and encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves.

We understand that home life is a priority and are happy to consider reduced hours or job shares.

If you think you would be a great fit for us, but do not meet all the requirements of the role, please contact us as we would love to discuss how RSA could be the next step in your career journey.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.

If you wish to be considered under the scheme then please answer yes to the question Do you wish to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme? in RSAs application form.

Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact our recruitment team so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.