Assistant Underwriter

6 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Allianz UK Full time

45235 | Underwriting | Entry Level | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent

**Who we are**

Allianz is a global insurance company serving across 70 different countries, but from the very first day you join our team you’ll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, while we celebrate an inclusive culture.

**Role Description**

This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Underwriter to join our successful Legal Protection business. Working as part of a close-knit team in north Bristol, we offer a great environment to support and nurture personal and technical development, including participation in our award winning Excellence in Technical underwriting academy.

No risk is the same, so you’ll need to use your analytical and communication skills, as well as technical knowledge to profitably steer our portfolio, ensure customer satisfaction and develop strong trading relationships.

**About You**

You will play an active role in managing our legal protection portfolio in terms of growth and profitability through portfolio steering, product design, pricing and underwriting new risks and the creation and management of policy documentation.

We are looking for an underwriter who can proactively manage a portfolio of risks across a broad spectrum of Legal Expenses products and who is capable of forging strong business relationships with our customers.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Providing excellent service to our customers
- Active management of pricing and performance activity across the legal expenses portfolio providing accurate, timely and actionable business information using range of systems and software to develop business relationships with key clients
- To achieve agreed financial and operational performance targets
- Offering feedback and insight about our products to assist in their development and maintenance to collaborate strongly with other departments to achieve the Company's goals in respect of service delivery
- Providing technical input to policy wordings and supporting documentation. Adding insight to ensure that these important customer documents keep pace with legal developments and customer’s needs. Organising, maintaining and deploying our wordings

**Skills & Experience**:

- Experience in underwriting legal expenses or commercial insurance is desired.
- Excellent relationship management skills.
- Practical knowledge of MS Office and MS Outlook.
- Excellent numerical and verbal reasoning skills.
- Good verbal influencing and trading skills.
- An understanding of the general insurance market
- GCSE Maths and English or relevant equivalent experience
- Taking initiative and being proactive within a team
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and strong analytical and decision making skills
- Passionate about your own development, so commitment to progressing towards internal and CII qualifications is necessary for working within this technical team
- Ability to multi task at pace and the ability to work hard on own initiative and be achievement oriented.
- Able to organise own workload to meet tight deadlines and support the team in delivering excellent service levels.
- A good team player. Supportive to others with an enthusiastic and positive attitude.
- Resilient and adaptable to change.

**Our Benefits**

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from - including: retail discounts and discounted insurance cover - so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

- 25 - 27 Days holiday & 1 addition for birthday plus bank holidays
- Competitive Annual Salary
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Generous pension contributions and Life Cover up to 4 x salary
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Professional mental health support for all employees
- Health and Wellbeing
- We can offer fulltime and part time hours
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Access to Learning and Development opportunities such as LinkedIn Learning and our mentoring scheme

**About Us**

In the UK, Allianz Insurance employs over 8,000 people up and down the country. The company’s Head Office is situated in Guildford, Surrey, plus we have additional support services with over 1,000 people based in Trivandrum, India.

We offer commercial insurance with a full range of products for sole traders, right up to large commercial organisations. We also provide a range of personal insurances including, home and motor, musical, legal expenses insurance and cover for pets and horses.

We're a global company, but from the very first day you join our team you’ll know that your contributions are va

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