Senior Construction Underwriter - London

AXA UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in London is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Underwriter to manage broker portfolios and drive profitable growth. In this role, you will develop strong relationships with brokers, underwrite business profitably, and lead presentations to secure new opportunities. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in construction underwriting and strong negotiation skills.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Private health cover

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy or sell extra leave

Up to 21 hours volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experience working with mid-market construction business.
• Demonstrable technical underwriting expertise.
• Keen to learn and challenge the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite new and existing business profitably and accurately.
• Develop strong trading relationships with brokers.
• Lead meetings and presentations to secure new business opportunities.

Skills

Experience as a Construction Underwriter

Excellent trading capability

Strong negotiation skills

Sound knowledge of legislative requirements

Ability to build broker relationships

Education

Cert CII qualification

DIP CII desirable

Job description

At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we've got them covered.Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current broker facing team with experienced, engaging, and forward-thinking Construction Underwriters. This role provides a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Senior Construction Underwriter, you’ll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through proactive, flexible and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you’ll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed. You’ll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth within our key markets, predominantly in the Mid-Market space.

• Underwrite new and existing business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of appetite and tools available.
• Proactively lead the development of strong trading relationships with a panel of brokers, taking full ownership for the generation of profitable business from nominated panel.
• Proactively develop a robust pipeline of appropriate new business opportunities and ensure that long-term pipeline is realised by ensuring broker / client engagement.
• Lead meetings, presentations and tender responses with brokers / end customers to portray AXA capabilities and secure new business opportunities.
• Coach, train and develop underwriters to continually improve their technical and trading capability from a new and existing business perspective.
• Act as the referral point for Underwriters within our teams, providing technical and trading input to improve the quality of decisions within their empowerment.
• Effectively promote and deploy AXA’s strategy, product range, propositions and key differentiators to leverage commercial opportunities.

What’s in it for you:

• We’ll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow:It’s our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That’s why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.
• Build a career that’s as dynamic as the market you work in:We’re on a journey of transformation, so we’re investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.
• Shape your career one decision at a time:We’ll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 60% of your week away from home, either at our office location in London, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you'll bring:

• Keep an open mind:Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.
• Stay curious:You’ll be perceptive of what our customers and the market want and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA’s development opportunities.
• Be a team player:Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.
• Experience working as a Construction Underwriter dealing with mid-market construction business, including both contractors and liability risks.
• Excellent trading capability with a good commercial awareness, negotiation skills and the ability to build strong broker relationships.
• Demonstrable technical underwriting expertise in a composite insurance environment.
• Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance.
• Cert CII qualification with DIP CII desirable.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Up to 21 hours volunteering leave per year
• Private health cover
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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Who are we:

AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We’re currently making our biggest ever investment to develop the expertise and skills we need to be the best. We’re a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.