Senior Underwriter - Commercial Schemes

TN United Kingdom; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking organization is seeking a Senior Underwriter to join its Gloucester office. This role offers a unique opportunity to deliver exceptional customer service while underwriting a diverse range of commercial schemes. As part of a dynamic underwriting team, you will engage with broker partners, manage complex risks, and contribute to the growth of a purpose-led organization. With a commitment to career development and a supportive environment, this position is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the insurance sector.

Benefits

Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private healthcare

Income protection

Life assurance

Annual personal grant to charity

Volunteering day per year

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for professional qualifications

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs including Maths and English at grade C or above.
• Qualified Dip CII or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale.

Responsibilities

• Develop and profitably underwrite new/existing business.
• Act as referral point for complex and unique risks.

Skills

Customer Service

Stakeholder Management

Coaching

Commercial Insurance Knowledge

Education

GCSEs including Maths and English

Dip CII

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28.04.2025

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12.06.2025

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Working hours:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:Permanent

Location: Gloucester

Job ref: 203838

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Senior Underwriter to join our Gloucester office.

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. The Schemes Department at Ecclesiastical underwrites a broad range of commercial schemes, providing delegated authority to our broker partners. With a risk appetite that is wider than Ecclesiastical’s standard niche offering you could be involved with schemes that cater for property owners, nurseries, holiday homes or even farms.

The successful applicant will be part of the underwriting team. Our broker partners already hold a degree of delegated authority so you will act as a referral point for them on the more complex and unique risks. In a varied role the underwriting team are also involved with auditing brokers and building relationships for profitable, strong and long lasting schemes.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing and forward thinking business, giving you a real opportunity to develop your career and be part of a 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

• Minimum of 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at grade C or above or equivalent experience
  
• Qualified Dip CII or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale
  
• Strong Commercial Insurance Market, Industry and Company knowledge
• Familiarity with commercial farm underwriting us a plus, but not mandatory
• 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