Senior Professional Indemnity Underwriter

At RSA, we believe insurance is about people, not things. We provide our inspiring colleagues the support and opportunity to grow together, shape the future, and win as a team. We are going through a transformation journey, providing our people with opportunity to be integral to improving our service and delivering better products to brokers and customers.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Professional Indemnity Underwriter to join our established and experienced Profin team here at RSA on a hybrid basis.

Your role would include interaction with our Legal Professions business appointed brokers, responding to their technical underwriting queries and involvement in annual renewal process negotiations. Additionally, there will be an element of non-Legal Professions business development and renewal work within the wider Profin team working with selected brokers to optimise profitable growth. You will apply a range of underwriting, relationship building and business development techniques to help achieve this growth.

This applies to new and/or existing cases within our agreed process and defined underwriting appetite. You will spend most of your time working with Legal Professionals appointed brokers, responding to technical queries, identifying and working on risk strategies, discussing, negotiating and facilitating their renewals and making effective underwriting decisions. The remainder of your time will be spent working with selected brokers identifying, discussing, negotiating and converting new and existing business opportunities and making effective underwriting decisions.

Within this role you will underwrite the following lines of business: Professional Indemnity.

To be successful in your role of Senior Underwriter you will require experience in either Professional Indemnity insurance or have held previous roles in the legal profession. This role may be suitable for someone currently working in the Scottish Legal Profession as a Solicitor, Paralegal and other legal support staff positions. You will be able to build working relationships with insurance brokers and write profitable business to ensure growth of the account.

At RSA we put our people first. We have adopted hybrid working as standard, to give you a better work/life balance and an excellent flexible working mindset. That is on top of a comprehensive range of benefits, including pension contributions of up to 11% looking after you now, and in the future. We will give you countless opportunities to continuously develop, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts, the best the industry has to offer. You will be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact.

We celebrate individuality and it is important to us that we have a culture where our people feel respected and valued for who they are. We pride ourselves on being accessible and encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves. We understand that home life is a priority and are happy to consider reduced hours or job shares.

If you think you would be a great fit for us, but do not meet all the requirements of the role, please contact us as we would love to discuss how RSA could be the next step in your career journey. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. If you wish to be considered under the scheme then please answer yes to the question Do you wish to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme? in RSA's application form. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact our recruitment team so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.