Underwriting Team Leader

Overview

It’s an exciting time to join Markel as our business grows. We have moved into brand-new innovative offices in Leeds city centre last year, and we currently have a great new opportunity for an Underwriting Team Leader to join our care team. The role is based within our renewals department as a Team Leader of the existing business focused underwriting teams. The successful candidate will be dealing with a wide variety of Care, Social Welfare, Charity and Not-for-Profit risks in addition to the day-to-day leading of the team. The team is well respected in the industry, and you will lead and monitor all aspects of workflow within the team while ensuring that financial targets including GWP, renewal retention, cross and up-selling are achieved.

You’ll be pro-active, building and maintaining strong relationships internally and externally with our brokers. You will monitor and analyse broker and underwriter activity and performance to identify success and any areas for improvement.

What you’ll be doing and how you’ll contribute will be focused on delivering excellent service and results for our brokers and for Markel.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide leadership and direction to the renewal team, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability and continuous improvement
• Lead and monitor both team and individual performance, taking action where necessary to make improvements
• Set SMART goals, manage resource, prioritise workflow and review key deliverables
• Coach and develop the team to a high level of performance
• Provide excellent service to our brokers, prioritising renewals and mid-term adjustments to ensure deadlines are met and maximise business development opportunities
• Identify and implement changes to deliver exceptional customer service
• Contribute to the overall profitability and financial performance of the company by ensuring efficient working practices
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with the team and the wider business
• Attend underwriting and broker meetings as required throughout the year and provide insight into developments, trends and feedback on market conditions
• Manage a portfolio and risks, underwrite large and complex renewal cases within the defined underwriting authority

Our Must Haves

• Strong people management and project skills and the ability to structure task allocations around critical goals
• Strong underwriting experience, ideally within care/social welfare or commercial combined lines
• Excellent organisational and delegation skills
• Strong technical and communication skills (written and spoken)
• Strong coaching skills to develop the capabilities of all team members
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Track record in building and developing broker relationships
• ACII and/or similar qualification preferred

Who We Are

Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) is a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

What’s In It For You

• Excellent starting salary plus 25% annual bonus & strong benefits package
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan and other benefits
• Opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career with supported training

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose Apply Now to fill out our short application so we can learn more about you.

Markel is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and life circumstances. We are happy to consider flexible working patterns. If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact us at rec@markel.com or call 0161 507 5827.

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