Development Underwriter

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Homebased (London and South East)

Job ref: 203770

About The Role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Development Underwriter to join our Commercial Insurance team in the London and South East region. With a rapidly developing Underwriting strategy and the ability to commit some of the largest capacity in the UK market, this is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious property and casualty underwriter to further develop their technical underwriting expertise and develop their broker relationships through underwriting some of the most interesting, unique and iconic sites in the UK. We’re proud to be one of the largest corporate charitable donors in the UK – working for us, you’d play a part in making a difference.

Our team in London has more than doubled over the last few years and so joining our rapidly expanding and innovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and become an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the highest level of Underwriting Authority to support empowered underwriting within the Region.
• Act as an underwriting referral point, and coach, for less experienced colleagues.
• Work collaboratively with Key Account Managers, Development Account Managers and Account Managers by providing targeted underwriting activity across Broker panels.
• Act as subject matter expert and referral point, internally and externally.
• Proactively develop commercially successful relationships through specialist underwriting activity.
• Develop and maintain productive internal relationships including our Underwriting Team, wider business colleagues, and Regional Underwriting Managers.
• Act as a regional stakeholder for the management of external tripartite relationships.
• Act as a regional lead on prospecting/pipelining activity.
• Utilise CRM to build long term strategies to target and win new business opportunities.
• Present risk-based solutions pulling on innovation and continuous improvement, working in conjunction with risk control and claims.
• Promote Ecclesiastical’s brand, values, and reputation in its markets, with customers, suppliers, and partners by having a visible and credible market presence.
• Actively expand personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD).
• Promote other Business Units.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• ACII, or working towards.
• Proven track record in a senior underwriting role.
• Significant experience of building and maintaining co-operative and productive relationships at all levels.
• Confident and influential communicator at all levels.
• The ability to coach others to develop and enhance their performance.

What We Offer

• Car allowance: £6,250 per annum
• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 30%
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK. As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.