Senior New Business P&C Underwriter in Manchester

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, we aim to strengthen our team with experienced, forward-thinking Underwriters. We are expanding our Manchester branch and seeking a New Business Senior Underwriter in Property and Casualty to manage profitability, influence the underwriting team, and foster stakeholder collaboration. This role offers vital opportunities to drive growth, enhance technical and trading capabilities, and deliver exceptional service to our customers.

By building strong relationships with brokers and internal teams, you will help set the foundation for the branch's ongoing success and development. 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 will work at least three days a week (60%) away from home. Away from home means either attendance at our office location in Manchester, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you will be doing:

• Act as the face of AXA in presenting propositions for larger Mid-Market and Mid-Corporate risks, based on industry knowledge and technical underwriting expertise, subject to the scale and complexity of the case.
• Work with Trading Underwriters to negotiate coverage, wordings and pricing that differentiate AXA to meet customer needs.
• Proactively develop a robust pipeline of Mid-Market and Mid-Corporate qualified growth opportunities leveraging both client and broker relationships, ensuring pipeline is effectively managed and realised.
• Lead and fully embed the large case management process for new business.
• Develop and build collaborative broker relationships, sometimes client, across the region, taking full ownership for the generation and placement of profitable commercial business from self-sourced.
• Underwrite profitable new business, in line with AXA established underwriting controls and practices and act as a referral point in branch across new business.
• Develop and maintain a quality distribution strategy and communication plan with key influential brokers to ensure financial KPIs achieved.

What you will bring:

• Technical underwriting expertise in a commercial insurance environment.
• Sound understanding of the Manchester insurance market.
• Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment.
• Coaching and development skills within a similar environment and experience of working in teams and successful record of delivering results.
• Strong trading capability - commercial awareness, negotiation skills and the ability to build strong broker relationships.
• Pragmatic decision making, analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
• Excellent risk assessment and risk management skills.
• Progress towards Dip CII 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
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 25 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

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and do not discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we are proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge.

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