Assistant Underwriter - Cyber (German speaking) in Birmingham

Assistant Underwriter – Cyber (12‑month secondment) Must speak German fluently.

Division: Underwriting Operations

Reports To: As per Beazley Org Structure

Key Relationships: Underwriters, Brokers, Underwriting Assistants, UCO, and external clients and suppliers.

Job Summary: To provide support and assistance to Underwriters by reviewing new and renewal business, approving policy changes, and managing account activities throughout the underwriting process.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake lower complexity tasks that have traditionally sat within Underwriting, that require a UAL in order to administer.
• Ensuring underwriting controls are present and completed within the agreed SLA for all risks that you have underwritten.
• Triage submissions including Vulnerability scanning and Ransomware Application checks.
• Manual population of Beazley Quote Tools.
• Produce Quote Documentation as per the underwriting guidelines.
• Assist Underwriters with risk analysis, consistent with underwriting guidelines.
• Make underwriting decisions, within pre-defined limits and revenue thresholds.
• Confirm pricing and binding conditions are met.
• Attend underwriting training and meetings as appropriate.
• Other duties assigned from time to time.
• Establishing and developing broker relationships with stakeholders that consistently submit low complexity business to Beazley.
• Ensuring any delegated authority business is only underwritten via approval from Beazley when outside of the exception terms.
• Ensuring any underwriting decisions made that exceed your UAL are appropriately referred and signed off prior to binding.

Broker / Client Interaction

• Provide professional service to brokers via email, telephone, and face to face.
• Serve as the first point of contact for customer inquiries during the account life cycle.
• Maintain and develop key relationships by responding to all client queries in a timely and accurate fashion.

We Also Expect Beazley Employees To

• Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct.
• Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system.

Personal Specification

This role requires someone result focused, self‑motivated, flexible and enthusiastic. This role would be ideal for somebody with a professional approach to interact successfully with other clients, building relationships and an ability to negotiate with both internal and external parties.

Skills And Abilities

• Fluency in English and other languages based on regional business requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Accurate and numerate.
• Computer skills – good working knowledge of MS Office.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills (written, verbal, active listening).
• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritize.

Essential Criteria

• Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors.
• Proven background in accurate, high volume data entry.
• Underwriting Assistant experience is advantageous.

Competencies

• Achievement drive.
• Analytical thinking.
• Information seeking.
• Customer focus.
• Initiative.
• Collaborative.
• Problem solving.
• Detail oriented.
• Team working.
• Time management.
• Relationship development.
• Effective communication.

Aptitude and Disposition

• Result/outcome focused, self‑motivated, flexible and enthusiastic.
• Ability to negotiate with both internal and external parties.
• Professional approach to interact successfully with managers/colleagues/external suppliers.
• Team worker and also able to work on own initiative.
• Values continuous personal and professional development.