Mid-market Commercial Fleet Underwriter

2 weeks ago

Bolton, Bolton, United Kingdom AXA Full time

Description:


As part of AXA Commercial, our National Trading Centre (NTC) manage commercial business for our small to medium sized brokers nationwide and we have profitably grown these accounts year on year.


Working in the NTC, we're looking for Mid-Market Commercial Underwriters to join our Fleet team, where you'll drive profitable growth through effective underwriting, understanding risk management and delivery of superior service.


At AXA we're adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the
Bolton office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers.


This is an exciting time to be joining NTC, which is led by a leadership team each with over 20 years' experience in the insurance industry.


Paula Parslow, Operations Manager said:
"I'm looking for Underwriters who are looking for a new challenge, it's a great opportunity as we have a strong team and are really proud of our technical capability and the profitable contribution that NTC has made to AXA Commercial.

With new brokers moving in, there is lots to get involved in:

complex and interesting risks, brokers who want to partner with us and a great team who enjoy what they do and support one another''.


What you'll be doing:

  • Underwrite new and existing Mid-Market business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of appetite and tools available
  • Build trading relationships with brokers, through visits and large case liaison, to maximise financial results and to generate pipeline new business opportunities
  • Build a reputation as a trading expert with a panel of intermediaries and build confidence in the branch ability through interaction with our Underwriting Technical Centre
  • Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers to portray AXA capabilities and secure new business opportunities
  • Demonstrate contribution to loss ratio control by effectively implementing branch UW controls
  • Identify poorly performing accounts and investigate reasons for lack of retention. Agree and implement actions with senior underwriter, Trading Team Managers & Account Managers to increase retention
  • Support SME Hub colleagues in building trading relationships with intermediaries to enable a consistent service to be delivered


At AXA we are committed to developing our employees, so you can be the best that you can be and contribute to the ongoing success of our business.


If you're looking to join a dynamic team and develop your career within a supportive and empowering environment this could the right move for you.


Qualifications:

  • Cert CII qualification with DIP CII desirable
  • Strong trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships, within a Fleet environment
  • Pragmatic decision making with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills
  • Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning
  • Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment
  • Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across commercial lines insurance operations
  • Knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance, including treating customers fairly
  • Experience of working in teams and a successful record of delivering results
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

What we offer:

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package.

At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that.


You can expect to receive:

  • Competitive annual salary
  • Annual company & performancebased bonus
  • Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
  • Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
  • 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
  • Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave
  • AXA employee discounts
  • Gym benefits


Our ambition is to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for, as such we're committed to supporting employee needs, providing meaningful career development and celebrating differences.

We understand that everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities, therefore we're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.

LI-Hybrid #insurance2

About AXA:


With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.

But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.


You'll work in an open and supportive environment where you'll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things - nationally and internationally.

You'll

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