Senior Real Estate Underwriter

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm is seeking a Senior Real Estate Underwriter to join their London office, providing exceptional customer service and underwriting support. This permanent role includes the opportunity to impact the team's success with competitive pay, bonuses, and extensive benefits, fostering personal and career development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

Generous bonus scheme up to 24%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits

Annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

Volunteering day

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for professional qualifications

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• Qualified Dip CII or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale.
• Proven track record of delivering exceptional customer service.
• Experience of acting as a coach within a commercial environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite new/existing business.
• Manage individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLA’s.
• Provide coaching, training, and act as a referral point for the team.

Skills

Customer Service

Stakeholder Management

Coaching

Market Knowledge

Education

Dip CII

Job description

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Working hours:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:Permanent

Location: London

Job ref:203487

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of the Benefact Group, are looking for a Senior Real Estate Underwriter to join our London office, with hybrid working.

The role holder will deliver exceptional customer service acting as part of the underwriting team, supporting Ecclesiastical’s “right first time” approach to customer service.

Joining our rapidly expanding and innovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and become an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite new/existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
• Provide embedded underwriting support at partner and customer sites if required.
• Plan, prioritise and manage individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLA’s to deliver exceptional customer service.
• Act as referral point for the team providing coaching, training in an appropriate time frame
• Use the appropriate method of communication (telephone, face to face) to support Ecclesiastical’s right first time approach in order to maintain successful Internal and External relationships.
• Act on individual audit results and agreed action plans within agreed deadlines to improve own performance
• Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business.
• Identify complaints, act upon them and resolve in line with company policy.
• Conduct audits and provide feedback, coaching and training as appropriate
• Provide team manager support as and when required.
• Manage a defined caseload
• Actively expand personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD)

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Qualified Dip CII or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale
• Market, Industry and Company knowledge
• A proven track record of delivering exceptional customer service
• Experience of acting as a coach within a commercial environment
• Experience of effective stakeholder management within a commercial environment

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
  
• 25days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating aninclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of usfeels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with arange of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interestsand we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applicationsfrom everyone.

If you need any additional support during therecruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26