Senior Underwriter - Bespoke

Benefact Group plc; Bradley Stoke; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial services group in Gloucester is seeking a Senior Underwriter to join their Bespoke Team. The ideal candidate will manage a portfolio across specialist sectors and showcase their negotiation and trading skills. This role emphasizes collaborative relationships and continuous improvement, offering substantial career development within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Generous annual bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Proactive with a desire to continuously improve.
• Competent IT and data skills.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships.
• Act as a coach and empower others.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload.
• Coach and train the team.
• Underwrite new/existing business.
• Plan and prioritize tasks to meet SLAs.
• Develop and maintain underwriting authority.

Skills

Proactive mindset

IT and data skills

Relationship building

Coaching ability

Education

ACII/DIP or relevant qualification

Tools

Microsoft suite

Job description

Working hours:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:Permanent

Location:Gloucester

Job ref: 204396

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part ofBenefact Groupare looking for a Senior Underwriterto join our Bespoke Team in theGloucesteroffice.

It’s an exciting time to join our Corporate Bespoke team at Ecclesiastical Insurance. As a Senior Underwriter, you’ll manage a portfolio of prestigious cases across our specialist sectors, Education, Charity, and Care, where your expertise makes an impact. This role offers the chance to showcase your negotiation and trading skills on both new business and renewals, while building strong, collaborative relationships with key partners. You’ll be part of an inclusive team that values support, knowledge-sharing, and a culture of continuous improvement—where your contribution is recognised and your development is a priority.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Managing a defined caseload.
• Acting as referral point for the team providing coaching, training in an appropriate time frame.
• Developing, negotiating, and profitably underwriting new/existing business within own authority and in line with Brand strategy.
• Planning, prioritising and managing individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLAs to deliver exceptional customer service.
• Maintaining, using, and developing your underwriting authority and taking responsibility for your professionalism and development.

What you'll need to have

• To be pro-active with desire to continuously improve.
• Competent IT and data skills [including Microsoft suite].
• Commitment to deliver exceptional service contributing both as an individual and as an effective part of a team.
• The ability to build collaborative, productive relationships.
• Able to act as a coach, empowering others within a commercial environment.

What makes you stand out

• ACII/DIP/ role relevant qualification or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale.
• In depth insurance technical knowledge
• Experience of the ability to analyse and produce relevant reports.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
• 25days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• £200 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 Insuranceoffer 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 an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone. If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

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