Commercial Property & Real Estate Manager (Midlands & South) in Birmingham

Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Commercial Insurance team as a Property and Real Estate Manager, covering our Midlands and South region.

Real Estate is a key strategic growth priority for Chubb, and this role will play a central part in supporting the continued growth of the UK regional Real Estate portfolio.

The successful candidate will lead a team, oversee underwriting activity across Property and Liability risks, and help drive profitable and sustainable growth across the portfolio.

The role will combine technical underwriting expertise with strong people leadership, client management, and commercial decision-making.

You will be responsible for supporting the development of the team, setting standards of best practice, and ensuring excellent service to brokers and clients.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of underwriters, providing clear direction, support and mentoring to ensure strong performance and professional growth.
• Oversee underwriting of new business and renewal accounts in line with underwriting guidelines, strategy and appetite.
• Manage and support the underwriting of Property and Liability risks for Real Estate clients, including larger and more complex accounts.
• Take responsibility for key client and broker relationships, ensuring proactive engagement and a high standard of service.
• Support the delivery of the Real Estate financial plan, including forecasting, reforecasts and performance tracking.
• Work closely with claims, risk engineering, global services and other underwriting teams to deliver joined-up solutions for clients and brokers.
• Ensure compliance with company standards, including policy documentation, contract certainty, peer review, audit, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Promote best practice across the team and support a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Represent Chubb internally and externally at broker meetings, client meetings and internal production and renewal discussions.
• Contribute to strategic growth plans and identify opportunities for cross-selling across Chubb’s wider product offering.

Qualifications

• Excellent working knowledge of the Real Estate insurance market and competitor landscape.
• Significant Property and Liability underwriting experience, ideally within Real Estate.
• Proven leadership experience, with the ability to manage, coach and develop a team.
• An experienced, organised and commercially minded professional whose expertise is recognised externally.
• Results driven, with the ability to make decisions and work on your own initiative.
• Strong influencing and communication skills, with the ability to operate effectively at all levels internally and externally.
• A desire to continue developing both technical and broader business skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Multinational experience would be beneficial but is not essential.

We offer in return!

Competitive salary & pension scheme, discretionary bonus scheme, 25 days annual leave plus ability to purchase 5 additional days, hybrid working options, Private Medical cover, Employee Share Purchase Plan, Life Assurance, Subsidised gym membership, Comprehensive Learning & development offerings, Employee Assistance program.

Integrity. client focus. respect. excellence. teamwork

Our core values dictate how we live and work.

We’re an ethical and honest company that’s wholly committed to its clients.

A business that’s engaged in mutual trust and respect for its employees and partners.

A place where colleagues perform at the highest levels.

And a working environment that’s collaborative and supportive.

Diversity & Inclusion.

At Chubb, we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness and respect, regardless of their age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or family circumstances.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.

If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know.