Schemes Underwriter (Property & Casualty) | Multiple Opportunities

Hiscox; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Manchester is seeking an experienced underwriter to manage schemes and broker relationships. You will be responsible for delivering exceptional service, driving profitable growth, and implementing innovative underwriting strategies. The ideal candidate must have strong decision-making and interpersonal skills, along with significant underwriting experience and a progression towards ACII qualification. This position promotes flexible working within a diverse and inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in underwriting with a collaborative mindset.
• Comfortable making underwriting recommendations on complex cases.
• Ability to influence and negotiate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional service to brokers, tackling complex referrals.
• Accountable for the profitable growth of schemes.
• Challenge conventions and implement innovative underwriting strategies.
• Maintain the company's market-leading position by staying informed about industry risks.
• Manage relationships with key strategic broker partners.

Skills

Decision-making

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Education

ACII qualification or progression towards

Job description

Job Type : Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

About Hiscox UK

Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognised as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technology companies. Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.

The role

We have a market leading reputation for producing bespoke solutions for niche customer groups managed by our broker partners. Within the wider Schemes team we deliver Schemes solutions across the UK retail business.

You’ll work across the existing portfolio of schemes business ensuring that we deliver market leading service across your scheme panel. You’ll work with the wider Schemes Team across underwriting, operations, sales and the wider senior leadership team to drive improvement and profitable growth of our schemes portfolio, playing an integral part in realising our ambitions of growing the book in line with our strategic ambitions.

You’ll have responsibility for dealing with the schemes business, dealing not only with underwriting business and servicing our schemes partner brokers, but also the opportunity to help drive and shape our wider underwriting strategy and growth.

What you’ll be doing :

Delivering exceptional service to our brokers, dealing with referrals and writing more complex business

In conjunction with the Sector lead and schemes underwriting team, be responsible and accountable for the profitable growth of schemes.

Challenge convention on a regular basis, able to suggest and execute effective growth and portfolio underwriting strategies to ensure sustained profitable growth

Keep abreast of new risks and exposures within our chosen sectors to ensure Hiscox market leading position is maintained.

Working with the Sector lead around shaping and driving the underlying underwriting strategy and portfolio of business to deliver our ambitions

Taking underwriting ownership, relationship management and accountability for some of our key strategic broker partners

Operating within the Property & Casualty Sector

Our must-haves :

Ability to make a confident decision in difficult and complex situations

Strong interperson skills and ability to work independently in a collaborative environment

Demonstrated experience in underwriting

ACII qualification or progression towards

Comfortable analysing, making and executing underwriting recommendations on complex cases outside of your authority or willing to learn these skills

Interest in developing as a potential sector expert in a specialist area

Able to demonstrate influencing and negotiation skills

Open to new ideas, innovation and educated risk taking

Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We also understand that working life doesn’t always have to be ‘nine to five’ and we support flexible working wherever we can. No promises, but please chat to our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.

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