Fleet Underwriter

**About the role**:
AXA Insurance will provide you with a platform to showcase your skills and further develop your career with our highly respected teams. 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 customer or through a number of corporate partners, our market-leading products are trusted by millions.

We have a fantastic opportunity due to our current significant growth plan, for an experienced Fleet Commercial Underwriter, to join our Leeds branch. The team is a dynamic group of insurance experts, with enviable expertise and strong market relationships, who deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions for our Mid-Market clients, working in partnership with our local brokers and supporting their growth plans.

The rapidly growing branch and underwriting team have a breadth of expertise, understanding and focus on providing tailored solutions for clients, that ensures the continuing success.

As Fleet Underwriter, you'll deliver the branch trading results through effective underwriting of commercial risks within agreed authority levels whilst delivering excellent customer service to brokers. Working in the Commercial Underwriting Team, you'll be responsible for underwriting business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices and governance framework, using the full range of appetite and tools available.

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 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, 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**:

- Develop credibility with brokers and customers, using effective questioning and influencing to understand all aspects of importance to both broker and customer, and keep them informed about ongoing activity.
- Establish excellent trading relationships with brokers, through visits and large case liaison, to develop pipeline 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.
- Identify poorly performing accounts and investigate reasons for lack of retention. Agree and implement actions with senior underwriter, Trading Team Manager & Account Manager to increase retention.
- Contribute to the development of peers by coaching and acting as a reference point to assist in decision making within empowerment.
- Support SME Trading Centre with intermediaries to enable a consistent and seamless service to be delivered.

**About you**:
**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.
- Cert CII qualification with DIP CII desirable.
- Strong trading capability - commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build broker relationships within the Fleet environment.
- Pragmatic and confident decision maker with good numerical reasoning skills.
- Analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.
- Technical underwriting expertise in a composite insurance environment (non-package).
- Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance (including treating customers fairly).

**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 depend