Lead Trading Underwriter - P&C - South East Region in Ipswich

At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current team and we’re excited to bring to market a role as a Lead Trading Underwriter specialising in Property and Casualty.

In this role you’ll develop excellent broker and client relationships to deliver a strong pipeline of cases to deliver target KPI’s for the branch. You’ll play a vital role in supporting the growth of new clients and the management of existing clients in the Mid Corporate space.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team, and our customers. You’ll work at least 60% of your week away from home, at our office location in Ipswich, visiting clients or attending industry events. Travel to our Maidstone office will be required on a regular basis.

What you’ll be doing:

• Proactively lead the development of strong trading relationships in the South East Region, serving as a subject matter expert for Mid Corporate customers with a GWP of £250k+.
• Actively develop and maintain a robust pipeline of new business opportunities, taking full ownership of generating profitable business from a designated panel.
• Manage and fully own engagement with both the broker panel and client allocation, ensuring effective communication and relationship management.
• Serve as a referral point for Mid Corporate customers to connect with key internal stakeholders across risk management and claims teams.
• Ensure that trading teams underwrite new and existing business profitably and consistently, adhering to established underwriting practices and utilising available tools.
• Coach and train Senior Underwriters to enhance their technical and trading capabilities for both new and existing business.
• Act as a referral point for Senior Underwriters, providing technical and trading input to improve decision quality within their empowerment.
• Effectively promote and implement AXA’s strategy, product range, and key differentiators to leverage commercial opportunities, while also contributing to loss ratio control through proper underwriting controls.

What you’ll bring:

• High level of technical product knowledge in Property and Casualty classes, supported by strong underwriting expertise in a composite insurance environment.
• Excellent negotiation, sales, and communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships at all organisational levels.
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience in account monitoring and action planning, complemented by pragmatic decision-making abilities and good numerical reasoning skills.
• Established skills in networking and relationship building, essential for fostering partnerships in the insurance market.
• Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance, including understanding of treating customers fairly and the overall commercial insurance market.
• ACII qualification is desirable.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom. This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

What we offer:

• Competitive annual salary of up to £70,000
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• Tool of Trade car
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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For our support, please send an email to mel.ainscough@axa-insurance.co.uk.

Who we are: AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We’re currently making our biggest ever investment to develop the expertise and skills we need to be the best. We’re a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.