Head of Liability

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom HDI Full time

HDI Global is part of the Talanx Group, one of the world’s largest insurance groups and a leader in the delivery of global insurance solutions for corporate businesses.

For over 100 years, HDI’s 3,000 employees around the world have offered a broad and needs-based range of insurance solutions and accompanying services to clients across a variety of industries. With a presence in over 150 territories, we are everywhere our clients need us to be.

The role

The Head of Liability – UK Regions is in place to perform a key leadership role for the UK Liability Team. The role will support the Director of Liability and have primary day to day responsibility for delivering strategic and business growth for the Regional Liability account.

Based in Birmingham, this role is responsible for the management of the Regional Liability Team as well as office functions.

This role will require regular travel to the Manchester and London offices, as well as regular visits to broker and client offices in the regions.

Key accountabilities
  • Provide underwriting leadership, management support, coaching and day to day assistance to enable the development of direct and indirect reports.
  • Be responsible for the timely collection of business data in order to generate quality MI that creates meaningful business insights and informs strategy.
  • Support the Director of Liability in building a UK team who collaborate and share best practice.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with key brokers and clients at all relevant levels of their business.
  • Ensure all cross-sell opportunities are leveraged, working alongside Distribution and other Lines of Business.
  • Underwrite individual risks, responding to insurance proposals, gathering background information, assessing the risk and determining appropriate insurance premiums.
  • Comply with all HDI-UK and Ireland financial policies and manage and control departmental expenditure within agreed budgets.
  • Comply with HDI-UK and Ireland branch and Global policies, underwriting guidelines and underwriting authority.

KEY RESULT AREAS

  • Compliance performance – internal underwriting compliance
Skills & experience
  • Not less than 10 years’ experience in Underwriting.
  • Not less than 3 years’ experience of team management.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills; confident in negotiation and networking scenarios.
  • Track record of managing a dynamic team and maintaining employee engagement.
  • Ability to critically evaluate information from a variety of sources and solve highly complex problems, displaying creativity, innovation and an entrepreneurial approach.
  • Ability to formulate and implement underwriting strategy.
  • Ability to organise own workload effectively to meet service standards.
  • Ability to work under pressured to deliver to tight deadlines when required.
  • Good knowledge of insurance underwriting in a range of lines.
  • Understanding of the regulatory environment.
Other

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees , recognising that a diverse and inclusive workplace is a creative and prosperous one.

At HDI, we empower our people to determine ways of working that best suit their role and lifestyle. We encourage our people to work with their managers to agree how best to structure their workload and routines to ensure everyone gets the most out of work. We call this frameworksmart@HDI

If you require support with your application, please contact UK&IRE_Recruitment@hdi.global

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