Senior Fleet Mid Market Underwriter - Southampton / Reading

AXA UK; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking a Senior Fleet Underwriter in Southampton. You will underwrite mid-market business and foster relationships with brokers to drive profitable growth. The role offers a supportive environment for professional development and emphasizes flexible working arrangements. Ideal candidates will have strong commercial awareness and decision-making skills. Competitive salary and benefits included.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

25 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Private health cover

AXA employee discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience in decision-making on underwriting scenarios within a commercial environment.
• Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across commercial lines.
• Knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite existing Mid-Market business profitably and accurately.
• Build trading relationships with brokers.
• Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers.

Skills

Strong trading capability

Commercial awareness

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Ability to build strong broker relationships

Education

FIT / Cert / Dip CII qualifications

Job description

Overview

Join AXA Commercial and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to making insurance simple and accessible for our diverse business customers. Whether they choose to work with us through brokers, directly over the phone, or online via comparison sites, we're committed to delivering tailored solutions that meet their needs.

We are excited to announce an opportunity for an experienced, forward-thinking Senior Fleet Underwriter to join our growing team. This role offers an exceptional chance to shape the future of AXA Commercial, establish key foundations, and drive our growth story forward. If you're passionate about underwriting and ready to make a real impact, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

As Senior Fleet Underwriter you'll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, 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, through our existing book of business, as well as contributing to the acquisition of new business.

• Underwrite existing Mid-Market business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of tools available.
• Build trading relationships with brokers, through visits and large case liaison, to maximise financial results and to generate pipeline new business opportunities.
• Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers to portray AXA capabilities and secure new business 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. AXA is happy to support you in obtaining the FIT / Cert / Dip CII qualifications.

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, at our office locations in Reading or Southampton, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.

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 wants 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.
• Strong trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships, within a Commercial Fleet environment.
• Pragmatic decision making with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.
• Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment.
• Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across commercial lines insurance operations.
• Knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance, including treating customers fairly.

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
• 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
• Up to 21 hours volunteering leave per year
• Private health cover
• Wellbeing services & resources
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• AXA employee discounts

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Who we are:

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.