Senior Casualty Underwriter

Lawes Insurance Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Casualty Underwriter to join their Northern Region Property & Casualty Underwriting Team in Manchester. The role involves significant responsibility for portfolio growth and the underwriting of new business and renewals, requiring expertise in casualty underwriting and strong leadership abilities. Candidates should possess substantial market experience and excellent communication skills along with a proactive approach to managing relationships with brokers and clients.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in the insurance market and dealing with brokers.
• Ability to underwrite multinational programmes is preferred.
• Leadership experience and mentorship skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite new business or renewals according to underwriting guidelines.
• Assist in formulating underwriting strategy for profitability.
• Manage junior colleagues and maintain quality in underwriting.

Skills

Legal liability knowledge

Casualty underwriting skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Presentation skills

Organizational skills

IT skills

Education

ACII qualification

IOSH/Nebosh qualification

Job description

Location: Manchester
Type: Full-time, Permanent

An expert Senior Casualty Underwriter is required to form a key part of Chubb’s Northern Region Property & Casualty Underwriting Team. The successful candidate will have responsibility for growth of the Portfolio with key Brokers and Clients, whilst maintaining and developing a portfolio of existing accounts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Goals: To underwrite new business or renewals according to defined underwriting guidelines, specified budget and local business plan.
• Portfolio Integrity: To assist in formulating underwriting strategy, forecasts and portfolio management in order to achieve underwriting profitability. To ensure quality control within defined area of responsibility by undertaking quantitative underwriting reviews, running regular management meetings and peer reviews.
• Product Development: To prioritise and develop products within area of specialist expertise in order to improve client retention and new business. This may involve collaborating with peers within and across business divisions in Europe as well as globally.
• Producer Management: To represent and promote Chubb corporately to brokers, internal and external clients. This may involve servicing key producers and clients, monitoring business acquisition and retention as well as maximising cross-selling opportunities.
• Procedures: To meet company standards in respect of policy documentation, timeframe for quoting new and renewal business and compliance issues.
• Operational Management: To manage junior colleagues by using the Chubb PMP and peer review process as well as providing mentoring, training and coaching where appropriate. In so doing, ensuring a high quality underwriting team. To prioritize to meet business objectives.
• Chubb Representative: To represent and promote Chubb and maintain a permanent contact with internal colleagues and clients as well as major clients.

Experience:

• An experienced professional who is recognised externally for their considerable market experience.
• Possesses a comprehensive understanding and working knowledge of legal liability and casualty underwriting and continues to develop technical knowledge & skills.
• Experience of underwriting multinational programmes is preferred.
• Significant experience of the Insurance market and competitors, and of dealing with brokers and clients.
• Possesses broader business skills – communication, organisation, IT, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Results driven with the ability to make own decisions and work on own initiative.
• Experience of leadership, training, mentoring and people development
• ACII & IOSH/Nebosh qualifications are preferred but not essential.

If you have the relevant experience or know someone that does please contact me now on : 07458162859 or email us at [e-mail]