Underwriter

Ecclesiastical Insurance UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Underwriter to join their Manchester office. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a purpose-driven organization while developing your career in a supportive environment. You will be responsible for underwriting existing business, ensuring exceptional customer service, and maintaining strong relationships. Join a forward-thinking company that values your growth and offers a range of benefits, including hybrid working options and generous annual leave. If you're passionate about making a difference in the insurance sector, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

Generous annual bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private healthcare

Income protection

Life assurance

Annual personal grant to charity

Volunteering day per year

Full study support for professional qualifications

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial underwriting is essential.
• Strong communication skills are crucial for customer service.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite existing business while adhering to company strategy.
• Manage workload to meet objectives and deliver excellent service.

Skills

Commercial Underwriting Experience

Customer Service

Verbal Communication

IT Skills

Education

5 GCSEs including Maths and English

Cert CII or commitment to achieve

Job description

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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Manchester

Job ref: 203661

About The Role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for an Underwriter to join our Manchester 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.

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 existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
• Plan, prioritise and manage individual own work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLAs to deliver exceptional customer service.
• 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 and act upon them in line with company policy.
• 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

• Previous experience in a commercial underwriting role
• Minimum of 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at grade C or above or equivalent
• Qualified Cert CII or commitment to work towards within an agreed timescale
• Market, Industry and Company knowledge
• Strong verbal communication skills
• A proven ability to deliver exceptional customer service
• Appropriate IT skills
  
  

What we offer

• A competitive salary
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme
• 25 days 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 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

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