Schemes Underwriter, Property
22 hours ago
**Description**:
Join us as a Technical Underwriter, Property and Casualty Schemes as part of AXA Commercial and develop your career with a highly respected world leader. You'll be taking responsibility and driving clarity on our P&C Schemes performance making it easy for our partners in profitable areas. Working as part of the Schemes hub teams, you'll be responsible for the profitability, income and regulatory compliance, ownership of the financial results for allocated delegated authorities (DA’s) through a delegated authority model.
We offer a bespoke development plan and tailored mentoring to support you and help you cultivate your skills along your journey with us and the tools to maximise your potential to become a high achieving Schemes Technical Underwriter. At AXA we’re adopting a Hybrid way of working, 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.
**What you’ll be doing**:
- Deliver top line and profit for allocated DA’s.
- Focus on referrals by achieving agreed service levels on referrals in support of above.
- Build and develop relationships with the DA’s, especially with the relevant trading and client servicing teams
- Support and build the internal underwriting network.
- Own, drive and undertake the underwriting result for allocated DA’s.
- Driving profitability by being clear on performance against agreed loss model (attrition, large loss and cat), monitoring and engaging the DA on rate and driving and implementing any required Profit Improvement Plan (PIP).
- Undertake the Portfolio approach to underwriting.
**Qualifications**:
- Progress towards CII qualification preferred.
- Strong technical underwriting skills and knowledge of risk assessment and risk management.
- Trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills and ability to build strong DA relationships.
- Understanding of Property and Casualty insurance market and processes, including legislative and regulatory requirements.
- Pragmatic and confident decision maker with proven experience in decision making in technical underwriting scenarios within a commercial environment.
- Good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Management of DA relationships.
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in the United Kingdom.
**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 dependent on experience
- Annual company & performance-based 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.
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**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.
Proud to be part of the AXA Group, the number one global insurance brand and a worldwide leader in financial services, AXA Insurance businesses employ over 5,500 in a network of offices across the UK. Our expert teams care for a huge range of customers, helping them protect their cars, homes and businesses against life’s uncertainties. Whether bought directly, through brokers or through a number of corporate partners, our market-leading products are trusted by millions.
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