Senior Underwriter

2 days ago


Manchester, United Kingdom AXA Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Underwriter to join our Commercial team at AXA Group. As a Senior Underwriter, you will play a critical role in managing the profitability and income of our branch, owning the financial results for designated accounts and brokers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Act as the face of AXA in presenting propositions for larger Mid-Market and Mid-Corporate risks, based on industry knowledge and technical underwriting expertise.
  • Work with Trading Underwriters to negotiate coverage, wordings and pricing that differentiate AXA to meet customer needs.
  • Proactively develop a robust pipeline of Mid-Market and Mid-Corporate qualified growth opportunities leveraging both client and broker relationships.
  • Lead and fully embed the large case management process for new business.
  • Develop and build collaborative broker relationships, sometimes client, across the Region, taking full ownership for the generation and placement of profitable commercial business from self-sourced.
  • Underwrite profitable new business, in line with AXA established underwriting controls and practices and act as a referral point in branch across New Business and, at times, renewals.
  • Develop and maintain a quality distribution strategy and communication plan with key influential brokers to ensure financial KPIs achieved.
About You

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Underwriter who possesses:

  • 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 within in a similar environment and experience of working in teams and successful record of delivering results.
  • Strong trading capability – commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.
  • Pragmatic decision maker with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
  • Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.
  • Excellent risk assessment and risk management skills.
About AXA Group

AXA Group is a global insurance company with a presence in over 60 countries and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers. We are committed to putting our collective might behind our people and their careers, providing an open and supportive environment where you can develop, challenge and be encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things – nationally and internationally.

What We Offer

We offer a 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 and more.


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