Senior Property Underwriter - Leeds City Centre (Hybrid Working)

Cryer Baker Recruitment Ltd.; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Property Underwriter for a hybrid role in Leeds City Centre. This position offers a competitive salary of £40K to £50K plus benefits, with responsibilities including underwriting complex risks, managing relationships with brokers, and training underwriting teams.

Benefits

Flexible working

Comprehensive benefits package

Performance bonus

Life insurance

Pension plan

Private Medical Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in underwriting complex property risks.
• Capable of training and supporting teams.
• Strong knowledge of market feedback processes.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite and select complex risks to ensure profitability.
• Manage new business and renewal cases.
• Provide training and support to trading underwriting teams.

Skills

Underwriting

Risk Assessment

Relationship Management

Training

Job description

Senior Property Underwriter - Leeds City Centre (Hybrid Working)

Reference:

AB/331

Base Salary £40K to £50K Plus Excellent Benefits

We are pleased to be working with an ambitious MGA who have grown impressively over the last few years and as a result have created a number of brand-new roles to be based from their Leeds City Centre offices.

There a currently seeking a Senior Property Underwriter who will be responsible for the underwriting and selection of complex risks, in a cost-effective manner and in accordance with statutory and company requirements/guidelines to ensure profitability and business targets are met.

You would also be responsible for supporting the Real Estate trading team, cascading knowledge by way of training or coaching. Acting as a referral point where risks fall outside individuals underwriting authority level. Building new and maintaining existing relationships with our Brokers and partners to maximize conversion and retention whilst maintaining profitability.

The Senior Underwriter will also provide the conduit for information to flow between the underwriting operations team and the Technical Underwriting Department to ensure we continually adapt our underwriting footprint and stance in accordance with our brokers needs’ whilst protecting underwriting profitability.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Manage complex and large new business and renewal cases.
• Receive and respond to underwriting referrals from trading underwriting teams.
• Assist in the development of underwriting capability within trading underwriting teams.
• Provide market feedback, process improvement suggestions and other relevant information to Technical Underwriting team.
• Understand loss ratio targets and ensure underwriting respects these targets.
• Trade with Brokers to maximize conversion and retention.
• Provide training where required.
• Renewal/Existing and New Business Control
• Underwriting file reviews and feedback
• Understand/support and drive income, conversion, and retention objectives.
• Support the development of new products.
• Carry out macro underwriting tasks as required.

This role comes with and excellent basic salary ranging from £40K to £50K per annum + a comprehensive benefits package which includes a performance, pension, life insurance, PMI etc.

This role is Monday to Friday, no weekends, flexible working, part home / part office.

For further details, please contact Andy Baker on 07834 596414/0113 4931720 or email your CV to [e-mail]