The opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a Cyber Underwriter to join the Markel team. The Cyber Team focuses on writing international, UK‑domiciled, and US wholesale business on a primary and excess of loss basis. The team writes open‑market business and supports cover holders, offering a flexible and innovative approach to underwriting that delivers solution‑focused products to brokers and clients. This role is based within the Cyber team, which has six members. The portfolio covers mid‑size corporate clients up to large multinational and international clients.
What you’ll be doing
- Help raise the profile of Markel and the Cyber team.
- Demonstrate a strategic and structured approach to broker development, communicating the Markel story in a compelling and credible way.
- Create and provide thought‑leadership for the Cyber Team.
- Manage a portion or industry within the Cyber Portfolio, analysing, working with actuaries, and creating strategy for the portfolio.
- Collaborate with claims colleagues on broker and customer meetings to maximise business development opportunities, studying claims trends and losses to refine the underwriting approach.
- Challenge wordings/clauses, lead in navigating the complexities of drafting and amending wordings, and raise concerns to the Head of Cyber or wordings team.
- Contribute to innovation within the product suite, providing expert input into the creation of new products and the refinement of existing ones, and regularly analysing competitors’ products and capabilities.
- Proactively develop, own, and enhance our customer offering within Cyber, engaging with customers to identify needs and provide solutions.
- Lead and manage key, Cyber‑specific broker relationships.
- Lead and manage pipelines for the team, influencing brokers and advancing Markel’s interests through strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Identify new distribution and delegated/cover‑holder opportunities, implementing them where appropriate.
- Manage your own renewal book of business in line with appetite and strategy, including combined ratio targets.
Our must haves
- Strong experience in Cyber Underwriting
- Underwriting insights and risk acceptance
- Portfolio management
- Underwriting data analysis
- Actuarial concepts
- Claims service and data analysis
- Wording comprehension and improvement
- Excellent relationship‑management skills
What’s in it for you
- A great starting salary plus annual bonus and strong benefits package.
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy or 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.
- Countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop your career, with the support you need to do so.
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whether you feel you meet the requirements of this role or are looking for flexible working patterns, we want to hear from you.
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