Regional Underwriter
5 months ago
**About us**:
At NIG, we’re experts in commercial insurance. Our experienced teams are focused on identifying and understanding the challenging risks faced by UK businesses. What really sets us apart is our partnership approach with our brokers.
We believe in getting to know both the brokers we work with and their clients’ businesses, building trusted relationships that last for the long term. Our underwriting teams work with brokers to identify and understand their clients’ risks. Together with our risk control experts and risk management tools, we help clients reduce and mitigate risks in their organisations.
We provide the flexibility to create tailored insurance cover that meets clients’ needs and deal with claims quickly and fairly through a proactive claims approach.
We continue to listen to our brokers and improve our offering, investing in our people and new technology. At NIG, we’re dedicated to make trading with us effortless, we are committed to delivering a robust service proposition and always seek to implement the right support to help our broker partners today and in the future.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Regional Underwriter (Property & Casualty) to join our established NIG team in Manchester on a full-time, permanent basis. We are looking for driven individuals experienced in Property and Casualty underwriting management and leadership.
**What you'll be doing**:
- As part of the regional management team, deliver regional priorities (including profitability and growth targets), including as appropriate, participation in projects to support our development as a business
- Agree, monitor, report against and achieve financial budgets, including rate and retention, in the business plan
- Work with regional team to create and drive a new business plan, implementing effective trading strategies with brokers
- Enhance the capabilities and performance of the regional team through training, coaching and support for both technical and trading skills
- Actively engage with customers to deliver the required business results
- Maintain and develop a good understanding of relevant product market, sector, geographic location, distribution segmentation and act on market developments as appropriate, working with internal stakeholders
- Manage the region’s P&C audit programme, implementing actions as appropriate
- Deliver on the region’s compliance requirements across the P&C account
- Using a coaching style to support the team with referrals across risks of wide-ranging descriptions and sizes
- Identify, own and manage the risks involved in running our business appropriate to your role, in line with Direct Line Group risk framework and regulatory and compliance requirements
**What you'll need**:
- Strong experience in Property and Casualty insurance underwriting
- Ability to lead a team of underwriters and encourage positive engagement
- Planning for and delivering on profitability and growth targets
- Technical knowledge, combined with trading skills and the ability to coach
- Strong organisation skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to build and manage broker relationships
- Desire to contribute to a positive culture and help create an enjoyable place to work
**Ways of Working**:
Our mixed model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach, combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. How much you'll be in the office depends on your role, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.
Read our flexible working approach here.
This role can be undertaken from the comfort of your home where you will come into our Manchester office twice a week and will visit brokers and engage with colleagues across the UK.
**Benefits**:
We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, that's why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle:
- 9% employer contributed pension
- Up to 10% AIP bonus
- 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover
- EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
- 25 days holiday
- Buy as you earn share scheme
- Employee discounts and cashback
- Plus many more
**Being yourself**:
Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.
We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who w
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