Technical Underwriter

Avencia Consulting Services; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance organization in Leeds seeks a Technical Underwriter to join their Social Welfare team. Responsibilities include maintaining underwriting integrity, overseeing compliance, and managing performance. Candidates should have proven experience in property liability underwriting, strong communication skills, and ideally be pursuing CII qualifications. This role offers competitive salary, bonus, and comprehensive benefits including health and career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive base salary + annual bonus

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension, private medical & dental, life assurance

Opportunity for career growth

Qualifications

• Proven experience in property liability underwriting.
• Strong understanding of commercial combined products.
• Background in the Care/Social Welfare sector is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure pricing and underwriting integrity is maintained across delegated business.
• Oversee binder strategy compliance and coverholder audits.
• Monitor account performance and maintain quality of new and existing business.
• Support the growth and development of schemes and open market opportunities.

Skills

Property liability underwriting

Commercial combined products

Delegated authority accounts management

Communication and report-writing skills

Relationship-building skills

Education

CII qualifications

Tools

Excel

e-trading platforms

Job description

The opportunity

Avencia are partnered with a leading insurance organisation to recruit a Technical Underwriter to join their Social Welfare team.

This role sits within the Care/Social Welfare Underwriting team, this position will support the development and oversight of a profitable and growing portfolio. The role works closely with the Head of Care and collaborates cross-functionally with Sales, Actuarial, Claims, and external partners.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure pricing and underwriting integrity is maintained across delegated business
• Oversee binder strategy compliance and coverholder audits
• Monitor account performance and maintain quality of new and existing business
• Support the growth and development of schemes and open market opportunities
• Handle complex referrals from underwriters, coverholders, and Claims
• Participate in product launches and market engagement
• Provide timely MI and performance reporting
• Act as a technical lead, contributing to best practice and cross-team collaboration

Skills & experience

• Proven experience in property liability underwriting
• Strong understanding of commercial combined products
• Experience managing or supporting delegated authority accounts (desirable)
• Background in the Care/Social Welfare sector is a plus
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills
• Comfortable interpreting MI and using Excel and e-trading platforms
• Strong relationship-building skills with brokers and internal teams
• Ideally studying towards (or open to studying) CII qualifications (fully funded)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + generous annual bonus
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (with buy/sell options)
• Outstanding benefits: pension, private medical & dental, life assurance, income protection, travel insurance, season ticket loan
• A genuine opportunity to grow your career with a Fortune 500 company that invests in its people