Senior Underwriter, Retail

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom ERS Full time

About the Role

ERS is a leading underwriter of a wide range of specialist motor insurance products. As a Senior Underwriter, you will play a key role in executing our underwriting strategy and developing our underwriting appetite. You will work closely with the Pricing and Technology teams, as well as other stakeholders across the business, to deliver sustainable, high-margin growth through the provision of quality propositions to a wide range of broker partners.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of the underwriting strategy for our product(s) based on your market knowledge and product expertise.
  • Contribute to the management of portfolio performance through the analysis of results, execution of our selection and pricing strategies, and providing recommendations that will drive continuous performance improvement.
  • Work alongside the Product Performance Analysts within the team, providing them with direction and support to improve their knowledge and utilizing their skills to support the delivery of our strategic goals.
  • Provide input to constantly refine our underwriting appetite to ensure that we take advantage of market opportunities and outperform our peers through superior risk selection and proactive management of our business mix.
  • Act as a point of technical referral from other members of the underwriting team, brokers, and other internal functions, using your extensive risk, product, and pricing knowledge to inform appropriate decisions in respect of those referrals.
  • Provide feedback to Product Managers & Heads of Class and to members of our Pricing team relating to the effectiveness of our risk pricing models to help us constantly drive enhanced sophistication and accuracy in our risk pricing.
  • Work closely with all areas of the business to ensure that we deliver a clear and seamless set of propositions to the market.
  • Understand the risk environment in which we operate and contribute to the identification and mitigation of the key risks which threaten the success and sustainability of our business.
  • Provide substantial contribution to our "first line of defence" activities, using audit and peer-review tools, complimented by exception reporting and performance MI, to constantly assess and monitor our underwriting activities to ensure that all business is being written in accordance with our stated underwriting authorities, agreed processes, and in compliance with our regulatory and conduct standards.
  • Establish and continually enhance a range of business relationships with our key partners, ensuring that we understand and satisfy their needs and those of their customers.

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

  • The ability to collaborate with a talented team of people towards the achievement of a set of challenging financial targets.
  • Possessing extensive technical knowledge of the product(s), including the features of the product, factors that drive product performance, market dynamics which influence how the product is delivered, and the requirements of customers using the product(s).
  • An analytical mindset with comprehensive skills using Microsoft Excel within your role.
  • To demonstrate gravitas and clarity of purpose which will give confidence to senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.
  • The ability to produce coherent and comprehensive Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to be presented at various committees, including senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.
  • Extensive commercial awareness, being able to spot and take advantage of opportunities and to fulfill their role in a way which enhances our financial performance.
  • Detailed understanding of pricing practices and methodologies with the ability and experience to help us constantly enhance our pricing capability, providing insight and feedback on our pricing models.
  • Interpersonal skills which will allow you to build and maintain value-adding relationships. You must be able to articulate what a mutually beneficial relationship looks like and be comfortable having difficult conversations with business-partners and colleagues.
  • Extensive knowledge of and experience in a sophisticated underwriting control environment which allows us to execute "first line of defence" activity, with a focus on constant performance improvement.
  • Extensive knowledge of the legal, regulatory, and compliance provisions that

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