Chief Underwriting Director

11 hours ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom IDEX Consulting Full time
Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Chief Underwriting Director to lead our Mid-Market underwriting approach. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for delivering enhanced performance and improved customer outcomes.

About the Role
  • Deliver financial plan outcomes through underwriting, pricing, underwriting quality, and portfolio management leadership.
  • Lead a small team of technical and portfolio management experts focused on optimising the portfolio and exploiting our underwriting strategy across the Property Liability and Motor portfolios within Regional Mid-Market.

In this role, you will work alongside claims, pricing, actuarial, finance and the data science teams who support Mid-Market. You will provide strategic portfolio and underwriting direction and support the development of underwriting capability.

Requirements
  1. Strong experience of portfolio management & how to enable business growth through technical underwriting with a commercial focus.
  2. Strong underwriting experience with the ability to deliver solutions to complex issues and implement underwriting strategies in an operationally effective manner alongside an ability to think strategically and assess the impact of changing risks over the medium term.
  3. A strong and effective communicator and coach with experience in a leadership role and ability to manage senior stakeholders both internally and externally.
  4. Strong understanding of Mid-Market and the issues and challenges facing customers.
  5. Proven ability to be adaptable and versatile with an ability to convey and convert complex data and strategies simply into the underwriting teams.

The estimated salary for this position is £80,000 - £110,000 per annum based on the requirements and location.



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