Schemes Underwriter

4 months ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom AXA UK Full time

**About the role**:
At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we've got them covered.

Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current teams with experienced, engaging, and forward-thinking Commercial Underwriters. These roles provide a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative, that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.

Join us as a Technical Underwriter, Property and Casualty Schemes, where 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, and ownership of the financial results for allocated delegated authorities (DA's) through a delegated authority model.

**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.

**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.

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.

**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.
- 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.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

**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 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 5 days leave
- AXA employee discounts
- Gym benefits

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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 a

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