Senior Fleet Underwriter

1 month ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom AXA Group Full time

At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we've got them covered. Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current teams with experienced, engaging, and forward-thinking Commercial Underwriters. This role provides a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative, that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.

It's an exciting time to join the AXA Commercial team, as we undergo significant growth across our branches to support the overall strategic business plan. We're currently looking to strengthen the team and bring to market the opportunity to join us a Senior Fleet Underwriter working on new business.

The role encompasses many opportunities to contribute to the development and success of the branch account, not just from a growth and profitability perspective but driving service excellence to our customers. The team ensure close collaboration is supported internally across the teams to be set up for success, as well as engaging and building key relationships with the brokers and panel aligned business developers.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team, and our customers. You'll work at least 60% of your week away from home, either at our office location in Glasgow, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What's in it for you:

We'll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow: It's our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That's why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.Build a career that's as dynamic as the market you work in: We're on a journey of transformation, so we're investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.Shape your career one decision at a time: We'll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.

What you'll be doing:

As Senior Fleet Underwriter you'll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you'll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed. You'll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth, through our existing book of business, as well as contributing to the acquisition of new business.

Underwrite new and existing Mid-Market business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of tools available.Build trading relationships with brokers, through visits and large case liaison, to maximise financial results and to generate pipeline new business opportunities.Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers to portray AXA capabilities and secure new business opportunities.Your Profile

What we're looking for:

Keep an open mind: Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.Stay curious: You'll be perceptive of what our customers and the market wants and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA's development opportunities.Be a team player: Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.Strong trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships, within a Commercial 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.

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

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 learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you'll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.

Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it's about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone – regardless of difference.

About the Entity

AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We're currently making our biggest ever investment to develop the expertise and skills we need to be the best. We're a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.

What We Offer

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 dependent on experienceAnnual company & performance-based bonusContributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)25 days annual leave plus Bank HolidaysOpportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leaveAXA employee discountsGym benefits

To apply, click on the 'apply for this job' button, you'll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We're proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don't discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term health condition or disability and require reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, we're proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to mel.-

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