Branch Underwriting Director

18 hours ago

Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Arch Capital Group Full time
Underwriting Manager Job Description

At Arch Capital Group, we're committed to fostering a collaborative culture that drives innovation and progress. As an Underwriting Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in promoting our company's values and inspiring our clients, employees, investors, and communities to achieve their full potential.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support Regional Portfolio Underwriting Managers in developing underwriting teams to build technical excellence and ensure Arch underwriting and pricing strategies are applied and evidenced appropriately.
  • Act as the key referral point within a branch for technical underwriting decisions, determining the desirability of accepting or rejecting risks within appetite and ensuring exposures are priced appropriately.
  • Develop solutions for complex underwriting problems within authority and risk appetite, coordinating required underwriting follow-up actions.
  • Establish strong relationships with underwriters to ensure a mutual understanding of Arch underwriting philosophy.
  • Ensure underwriting activities are executed within individual authorities, aligned to individual underwriter abilities and decisions evidenced by appropriate diligence and supporting rationales.
  • Regularly engage with underwriters to develop, mentor, motivate, and empower them.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with brokers in the region to generate new business opportunities and support the sales initiatives of the Broker Relationship Development community.
  • Ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction while meeting production and business goals.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Assist in ensuring that appropriate underwriting governance and controls are in place and underwriting documentation is maintained to meet internal quality control and external regulatory and legal needs.
Requirements and Skills:
  • High level of commercial insurance knowledge and strong technical underwriting skills.
  • Knowledge of regional brokers and market conditions.
  • Capacity to contribute towards business planning and strategy development.
  • Track record of building and influencing broker relationships.
  • Passionate people leader with the ability to develop cohesion and sense of purpose across different teams.
Qualifications:
  • Minimum A level standard preferred.
  • Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) qualifications or University Degree (or similar) desirable but not essential for the role.
Experience:
  • Extensive underwriting knowledge in Property/Casualty/awareness of Motor trade and Fleet desirable.

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