Head of Home Underwriting

Ivernia Insurance Ltd; Dublin; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ivernia Insurance Ltd in Dublin is looking for a Head of Underwriting to lead their Home Insurance Book. This role is critical for driving underwriting strategy and ensuring the performance aligns with objectives.

The successful candidate will work closely with key stakeholders across the organization to influence and shape the growth of the Home portfolio while maintaining the integrity of underwriting practices.

Applicants must have significant experience in Home Insurance underwriting and hold a CIP Qualification.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of underwriting experience in Home Insurance.
• CIP Qualification required for the role.
• Experience in technical leadership within an insurer or MGA.

Responsibilities

• Define the Home underwriting strategy and risk appetite.
• Monitor underwriting performance within the Home portfolio.
• Act as the primary underwriting contact for insurer partners.

Skills

Strong technical underwriting judgement

Confident decision maker

Commercial awareness

Clear communication

Ability to operate credibly with insurers

Education

CIP Qualification

Significant underwriting experience within Home Insurance (5+ years)

Job description

Ivernia Insurance is a specialist personal lines Managing General Agent operating across Motor, Home, and Commercial Motor. The business partners closely with insurer capacity providers and operates under delegated authority with a strong focus on underwriting discipline, pricing integrity and controlled growth.

The Home portfolio is a core strategic pillar of the business with ambitions to scale sustainably while maintaining underwriting quality and insurer confidence.

The Opportunity

This is a Head of Underwriting Role with responsibility for the Home Insurance Book to drive underwriting strategy, risk appetite, and technical decision making for Home, ensuring the portfolio performs in line with agreed objectives and delegated authority requirements.

The role offers genuine influence and the opportunity to shape the development of a growing Home portfolio within a disciplined MGA framework.

Role Purpose

The Head of Home Underwriting role is accountable for the technical underwriting performance and risk integrity of the Home portfolio.

The role ensures that underwriting appetite, rules and decision making are clear, consistently applied and aligned with insurer expectations while supporting controlled and profitable growth.

This role drives underwriting decisions and operates in close partnership with Pricing, Claims and Commercial Operations.

Key Responsibilities

Underwriting Strategy and Appetite

• Define and maintain the Home underwriting strategy and risk appetite
• Set acceptance criteria, referral rules and underwriting guidelines
• Ensure underwriting parameters remain aligned with insurer capacity and delegated authority
• Periodically review appetite in line with performance, market conditions and insurer feedback

Underwriting Decision Making and Oversight

• Own underwriting decision making for Home including complex and referred risks
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on underwriting judgement
• Ensure consistency and quality of underwriting decisions
• Monitor and address underwriting exceptions, overrides and trends

Portfolio Performance and Risk Management

• Monitor underwriting performance, mix and exposure within the Home portfolio
• Work closely with Pricing and Analytics on performance insights and trading outcomes
• Review claims trends and feedback to inform underwriting rules and appetite
• Ensure emerging risks are identified and escalated early

Insurer and Capacity Management

• Act as the primary underwriting contact for insurer partners on Home business
• Support insurer governance, audits and delegated authority reviews
• Ensure compliance with insurer reporting and underwriting standards
• Build strong credible relationships with capacity providers

Governance and Control

• Maintain underwriting audit readiness and documentation
• Participate in underwriting and pricing governance forums as required
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and delegated authority limits
• Work closely with Risk and Compliance on conduct, complaints insight and regulatory matters

Cross functional Collaboration

• Work closely with key stakeholders across the business to support effective execution of agreed initiatives and strategic priorities
• Partner with Claims Management to incorporate claims insight into underwriting decisions
• Support Pricing with underwriting input into pricing reviews and trading discussions
• Engage with Finance on underwriting performance and portfolio insight

Experience / Professional Qualification required

• Significant underwriting experience within Home Insurance (5+ years)
• CIP Qualification is a pre-requisite for this role
• Home Underwriting or technical leadership experience within an insurer or MGA
• Strong understanding of delegated authority arrangements
• Proven ability to exercise underwriting judgement on complex risks
• Ability to operate credibly with insurers, brokers and senior stakeholders

Advantageous

• Familiarity with broker led distribution models
• Experience in a growing or evolving MGA environment

Skills and Attributes

• Strong technical underwriting judgement
• Confident decision maker with a disciplined risk mindset
• Commercially aware while maintaining underwriting integrity
• Clear communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Comfortable operating with senior accountability in a lean structure
• Opportunity to help shape the future development of the Home portfolio
• High degree of autonomy within a well defined governance structure

If you would like to join our team, please send your CV along with Cover Letter to [e-mail] .