Underwriter Marine

AXA Group; Milano; In loco; EUR 45.000 - 70.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading insurance company is seeking a Marine Underwriter in Milan, Italy. This role involves underwriting new and renewal business, managing client relationships, and ensuring profitability. Candidates must have experience in the marine insurance field and possess strong communication skills in both Italian and English. The company fosters an inclusive culture and offers competitive benefits including a focus on sustainability.

Servizi

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits

Competitive compensation

Competenze

• Proven experience in underwriting with a track record of profitable business.
• Strong understanding of marine industry and underwriting procedures.
• Good level of Italian and English communication skills.

Mansioni

• Review submissions to determine risks and calculate premiums.
• Advise and follow up with clients on insurance matters.
• Manage relationships for cross-selling and account retention.

Conoscenze

Underwriting expertise

Client relationship management

Analytical skills

Negotiation techniques

Teamwork

Descrizione del lavoro

You will join our Italian Marine Underwriting Team that is growing faster, offering a full range of coverages to support business. Within the team you will bring your great expertise, interact with professional and technical experts, and share best practices to grow your potential.

Joining AXA XL as a Marine Underwriter you will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients to provide an innovative and bespoke underwriting service. Each risk we consider is unique which means our clients and brokers should enjoy a market leading experience of working with us.

In AXA XL you will thrive within a vibrant organization that cares about its people and makes inclusion and wellbeing a priority. Supported by a diverse community of individuals, you can do and feel your best.

In your underwriting role you will be responsible for writing new and renewal business for an allocated range of clients across the book, working with brokers and clients in support of the profitable growth of a portfolio in line with the agreed Business Plan, as well as developing high quality levels of relationships with brokers, clients and internal functions.

This is a regulated role under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity regime.

WHAT you’ll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Reviewing submissions including applications, policy wording, inspection reports, loss runs, and financial reports while conducting appropriate research to determine the degree of risk for each account.
• Calculating appropriate risk premium by considering the risk costs inherent to the sector, reinsurance cessions as well as the Underwriting and general administration costs while ensuring profitability.
• Proactively advising, assisting, servicing, and following up with clients on insurance and risk management matters to ensure satisfaction and fulfillment of their insurance requirements.
• Effective relationship management to initiate opportunities for cross-selling offered products and ensuring account retention.
• Controlling timely implementation of new and renewed accounts according to quality standards.
• Supporting the business planning and forecasting process; monitoring financial exposure within outlined limits; monitoring premium income to ensure it remains within set limits.
• Maintaining awareness of all claims advised while supporting and providing input on settlement of claims.

You will report to the Underwriting Manager Marine, Italy

WHAT you will BRING

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Proven experience of underwriting and portfolio monitoring, ideally with a proven track record of profitable underwriting in Marine line of business
• Good industry knowledge and awareness of factors affecting this market. Know underwriting procedures; arbitrate handling the complexity of situations; assess and take risks.
• Passion for Marine sector to support clients and brokers in meeting their insurance needs.
• Good level of Italian and English, spoken and written.
• Understand stakeholders’ needs and concerns and identifies points of agreement. Efficiently manages the interactions with other parties involved. Explores different alternatives and influence the other parties to reach an agreement with positive outcomes for all.
• Know and use selling and negotiation techniques; adapt to the client's situation, needs and behavior.
• Work in team with colleagues of different seniority and expertise to achieve collective goals.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to develop communication skills and maintain relationships with internal and external clients as well as across the AXA XL and AXA Group entities.
• Proactive attitude facing new challenges.
• Make swift and efficient data-based decisions and keep the focus on the goals over time.
• Digital agility and good understanding of IT tools and processes

Who WE are

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action : We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.