Underwrirting Manager

IDEX Consulting; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a commercially minded leader to drive Mid-Market underwriting and optimize portfolio management. This role involves delivering financial outcomes through strategic underwriting and pricing, while leading a team focused on enhancing customer experiences. Collaborating with various teams, you will shape commercial decisions and navigate complex risks, ensuring robust performance management. If you are a strong communicator with a passion for technical underwriting and business growth, this opportunity offers a platform to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in portfolio management to enable business growth.
• Ability to deliver solutions to complex issues in underwriting.

Responsibilities

• Lead Mid-Market underwriting to enhance performance and customer outcomes.
• Drive portfolio mix and identify growth opportunities.

Skills

Portfolio Management

Technical Underwriting

Leadership

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Job description

Are you a strong, commercially minded leader who is looking to deliver excellent customer outcomes and support the continued growth of the business through exploiting underwriting appetite, active portfolio management, underpinned and driven by a risk aware culture.

You will be responsible for delivering the financial plan outcomes through underwriting, pricing, underwriting quality, and portfolio management leadership.

In this role you will lead Mid-Market underwriting approach, to deliver enhanced performance and improved customer outcomes as well as driving portfolio mix and identifying areas/opportunities for growth.

You will achieve this through robust performance management, market pricing, rating and strong Underwriting principles alongside shaping and informing commercial decisions on Profit and Loss of the business based upon your deep insight of the business.

You will work alongside claims, pricing, actuarial, finance and the data science teams who support Mid-Market.
Focused on delivering for our customers and Brokers, you will lead a small team of technical and portfolio management experts focused on optimising the portfolio and exploiting our underwriting strategy across the Property Liability and Motor portfolios within Regional Mid-Market.

You will provide strategic portfolio and underwriting direction and support the development of underwriting capability.

You will have:

• Strong experience of portfolio management & how to enable business growth through technical underwriting with a commercial focus
• Strong underwriting experience with the ability to deliver solutions to complex issues and implement underwriting strategies in an operationally effective manner alongside an ability to think strategically and assess the impact of changing risks over the medium term
• A strong and effective communicator and coach with experience in a leadership role and ability to manage senior stakeholders both internally and externally
• Strong understanding of Mid-Market and the issues and challenges facing customers
• Proven ability to be adaptable and versatile with an ability to convey and convert complex data and strategies simply into the underwriting teams