Underwriter

5 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom The Benefact Group Full time

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Duration**: Permanent

**Location**:Birmingham

**Job ref**:201290

**About the role**:
We are looking for a Underwriter to join our Birmingham based team.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
- Support Senior Underwriters on Key Accounts.
- Plan, prioritise and manage individual own work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLAs to deliver exceptional customer service.
- Use the appropriate method of communication (telephone, face to face) to support Ecclesiastical’s right first time approach in order to maintain successful Internal and External relationships.
- Act on individual audit results and agreed action plans within agreed deadlines to improve own performance
- Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business.
- Identify complaints and act upon them in line with company policy.
- Actively expand personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD)
- Supporting other members of staff in times of need by offering help and support.

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**Knowledge, skills and experience**:

- Ability to adapt to and embrace change in a growing company
- Ability to manage and prioritise workloads to a high standard and work well under pressure
- Ability to use Excel to an intermediate level
- A high level of attention to detail
- Professional and confident verbal and written communication skills
- A proven ability to deliver exceptional customer service
- Experience within the insurance industry is essential, previous exposure to and understanding of Underwriting either within an MGA, Broker or Insurer.
- Willingness to attend Broker/client meetings and events whilst promoting our appetite and brand.
- Have a real “team player” mentality and lead by example

**What we offer**:

- A competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Flexible working
- Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
- Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
- Up to £300 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
- Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Full study support to gain professional qualifications

**About us**:
**Benefact Group** is a unique international financial services group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and currently the 3rd largest corporate donor in the country, having given away over £187 million since 2016. We have an ambitious plan to become the number one corporate donor with strategic objectives in place to double the groups size over the next five years.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people offer career opportunities and personal development through a fantastic learning and career framework. Luckily for us, the nature of who we are - our giving ethos, our 135 year history and the diversity of what we do - has built a culture of kindness, of great ambition, of passionate people driven to do better and be better.



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