Senior Underwriter

7 days ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Axa Full time

**Description**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Reading and Birmingham commercial team as a Senior Underwriter in Property and Casualty. As part of AXA Commercial’s transformation programme, we’re looking to grow the front line trading teams across our branch network and we welcome the opportunity to engage with experienced Underwriters.

This role is critical to Branch success managing the profitability and income of your own panel of brokers owning the financial results for designated accounts and brokers. You will be required to manage key stakeholders throughout the business and support the technical and trading capability of the branch.

The role encompasses many opportunities to contribute to the development and success of the team, not just from a growth and profitability perspective but also driving service excellence to our customers. This is about working smarter and more efficiently, giving us the perfect platform to deliver our business strategy.

At AXA we’re adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and our Reading or Birmingam office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. An important aspect of the role will be visiting brokers to continually consolidate and strengthen branch broker relationships.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Delivery of planned underwriting result for designated accounts through proactive account review, analysis of underwriting trends and improvement plans implemented to improve profitability.
- Manage underwriting relationship with key brokers from designated accounts to deliver profitable growth.
- Be the referral point for Underwriters, coaching Underwriters to make decisions within their empowerment and providing technical and trading input to improve the quality of underwriting decisions.
- Regular visits to designated broker panel to aid large case management retention and acquisition.
- Audit & Governance, maintain and monitor an effective control environment compliant with all regulatory and relevant AXA UK & Group control standards.

**Qualifications**:

- Progress towards Dip CII qualification desirable or equivalent experience.
- Technical underwriting expertise in a commercial insurance environment.
- Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across commercial lines insurance operations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, through written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment.
- Coaching and development skills and experience of working in teams with a successful record of delivering results.
- Developed trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.
- Pragmatic decision maker with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
- Portfolio analysis skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning
- Excellent risk assessment and risk management skills.

**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
- 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


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