Senior Property & Casualty Trading Underwriter - Birmingham (Hybrid Working)

Cryer Baker Recruitment Ltd.; West Midlands Combined Authority; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global insurance company is seeking a Senior Property & Casualty Trading Underwriter for their Birmingham office. The role involves developing a portfolio of brokers/customers, mentoring junior staff, and engaging in business development. With a competitive salary and excellent benefits, this position is ideal for someone looking to grow within the insurance industry.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity - 8% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme – company contributes up to 14%

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Free share up to £1,200 annually

Qualifications

• Experience in property & casualty underwriting is essential.
• Must possess excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to analyze risks and present effectively to brokers/customers.

Responsibilities

• Mentoring and coaching less experienced colleagues.
• Developing and growing the commercial book of business.
• Maintaining relationships with brokers/customers.

Skills

Expert knowledge of Insurance and Commercial underwriting

Excellent communication skills

Negotiation skills

Risk analysis skills

Business development skills

Job description

Senior Property & Casualty Trading Underwriter - Birmingham (Hybrid Working)

Reference:

AB/328

Basic Salary £50K to £70K Plus Excellent Benefits

This is a new and exciting opportunity to work for leading Global Insurance company with offices throughout the UK.

Our insurer client is seeking an experienced Lead Underwriters to work from their city centre Birmingham operation to join them to be aligned to a portfolio of brokers/customers to proactively develop and profitably grow their commercial book of business within the company.

In this Lead role you will be responsible for mentoring and coaching less experienced colleagues in writing and winning more complex, higher value business, whilst maintaining a multiclass underwriter approach when dealing end to end with brokers/customers.

This role would be dealing with existing business.

Skills and experience they are looking for are:

• Expert knowledge of Insurance and Commercial underwriting, experience of property & liability is essential.
• Excellent communication, listening, time management and negotiating skills.
• Analysis of risks and ability to communicate and present effectively to brokers and/or customers.
• Familiar with applying underwriting knowledge to effectively improve processes/procedures, whilst being responsible for own underwriting caseloads within a regulatory environment.
• Excellent business development/customer engagement skills in order to influence key contacts in the marketplace.

This is a fantastic company to work for who are a real investor in their workforce with a big emphasis on wellbeing for all of their employees.

This opportunity could also suit someone wishing to make the next step up who is currently underwriting P&C business.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Competitive Salary (depending on experience) £50K to £70K.
• Bonus opportunity - 8% of annual salary
• Generous pension scheme – company contribute up to 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Up to £1,200 free share annually

For further information please contact Andy Baker on 07834 696414/0113 4931720 or email [e-mail]