Technical Underwriting Manager

Benefact Group plc; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm in Brighton is seeking a Technical Underwriting Manager to manage underwriting strategies and team performance. This pivotal role involves maintaining high service standards, supervising audits, and liaising with stakeholders. Candidates should possess extensive commercial insurance experience, strong analytical skills, and people leadership qualities. The company values inclusivity and offers a competitive salary, hybrid working, generous bonuses, and numerous health benefits, fostering a collaborative environment focused on community impact.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension (up to 12% employer contribution)

Annual bonus scheme (7.5% to 30%)

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits

Annual personal grant to a charity

Encouraged volunteering day

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for qualifications

Access to virtual GP

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• Significant exposure to complex, high value risk.
• Ability to interpret data and spot trends.
• Proven record of enhancing team performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage team motivation and productivity.
• Deliver underwriting strategy and guides.
• Deputise for the Head of Underwriting.
• Oversee underwriting audits and compliance.
• Report on underwriting progress to stakeholders.
• Identify and act on risks related to Delegated Authority.

Skills

Extensive experience of commercial insurance

Analytical skills

Experience in internal audit

Coaching and training abilities

Excellent communication skills

People leadership

Education

DipCII (ACII preferred)

Job description

Working hours:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:Permanent

Location:Brighton

Job Ref:204429

About the role

Ansvar, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Technical Underwriting Manager to join our Brighton office.

You’ll play a key role in managing the implementation and delivery of Technical Underwriting activity to support the Ansvar business plan.

Our portfolio is as diverse as the communities we serve - charities, property owners, businesses, office and retail, faith groups, social enterprises, and not-for-profit organisations. This is your chance to make a meaningful impact across sectors that truly matter.

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

• Manage the motivation, development, productivity and performance of the team to ensure the delivery of a high standard and efficient service in line with UW goals and strategy

• Responsible for the delivery of the underwriting strategy including the provision of underwriting guides, managing the referral process, and monitoring personal underwriting and development authorities appropriate to performance and capability

• Deputise for the Head of Underwriting, including holding a significant level of Underwriting Authority

• Manage and continuously improve the annual Ansvar underwriting audit programme, ensuring frequency and quality standards for underwriting audits are met, and other planned audits are delivered on time and produce actions that improve underwriting standards

• Reporting on progress against plan, communicating and liaising with all key stakeholders

• Oversee audits of the Ansvar underwriting functions, brokers with delegated authority and hotspot capability audits

• Manage the underwriting referral log, including regular analysis to identify trends and needs and collaborating with the Underwriting Performance Manager to link the technical training programme and audit plan to raise underwriter’s competency and reduce referral volumes

• Supporting the Underwriting Performance Manager in ensuring the delivery of appropriate, high quality underwriting training to meet the needs of the business

• Liaise with all areas of the business in planning and supporting the prioritisation of activity to support the business plan

• Understand and operate within regulatory and internal control frameworks and identify and escalations any risks to the Head of Underwriting and Risk and Compliance Consultant with particular focus on audit and the management of Delegated Authority Agreements

• Expected to work as required across all aspects of the underwriting function, working outside own area of specialism when needed

What you’ll need to have

• Extensive experience of commercial insurance, with significant exposure to complex, high value risk

• Highly analytical, able to interpret data, spot trends, and translate these in to plans of action

• Experience of internal audit and understanding of best practice audit principles

• Proven ability to coach/train for enhanced performance of others

• Excellent communication skills, with experience in influencing senior stakeholders

• People leadership within an underwriting environment

What makes you stand out

• DipCII, with progress towards ACII preferred

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 7.5% and 30%

• 28 days 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

Hear from the hiring manager

"This is an exciting time to join us. We’re a tight-knit, collaborative team that combines focus with fun, and we’re passionate about providing excellent levels of technical support and coaching to our operational underwriting teams. You’ll be working closely with the Head of Underwriting to help shape underwriting strategy and the Underwriting Performance Manager in developing our wider underwriting capability. You’ll have the opportunity to bring your ideas to life, while working in an environment that values creativity, accountability, and hitting key milestones. If you want to lead a high performing team and see the impact of your work every day, this is the role for you."

About us

Ansvar specialise in insurance to the third sector. We cover thousands of risks in the UK, and unlike other insurers, our products are specifically designed for the niches we insure.

Driven by our values of empathy, professionalism and trust, we hold a genuine desire to positively impact the communities we help protect.

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