Lead Underwriter

2 weeks ago

Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom Allianz UK Full time £60,000 - £80,000 per year

Role Description
We're thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Lead Underwriter to join our team. This is a hybrid position, and will require travel to our Chelmsford office.

As our Lead Underwriter, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our underwriting strategy. You'll be at the forefront of defining our product propositions, crafting innovative features, and establishing robust underwriting frameworks that align with our strategic goals. Your expertise will influence everything from terms and conditions to validation controls, mapping rules, and the customer experience across all distribution channels.

You'll participate in the Global P&C Academy accreditation, enhancing your skills in underwriting, risk engineering, pricing, and claims management while exchanging best practices across the Allianz Group. Furthermore, for pricing-based roles, Allianz Insurance offers a generous study package to enable the actuarial qualification to be obtained through the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK.

Our team values continuous learning, you can enjoy free access to top training platforms like DataCamp, Databricks Academy, and LinkedIn Learning. Additionally, we host Lunch and Learn sessions on key business topics hosted by experts across the team and monthly insight sessions, including the Data Science Forum and analyst forum, to refine your technical skills.

Salary Information
Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You
As the Lead Underwriter, you will be responsible for:

  • Assisting the Underwriting manager to develop underwriting strategy in collaboration with the pricing managers.
  • Managing broker relationships, external – broker interactions
  • Using technical knowledge and awareness of customer needs to identify opportunities and threats.
  • Monitoring market, technology and data developments, customer feedback and product performance MI
  • Maintain and update product specifications to ensure accuracy and compliance.
  • Refresh rate charts regularly for up-to-date pricing information.
  • Manage product updates to keep offerings current and competitive.
  • Making a cross-product and cross-functional view, identifying opportunities to improve the process
  • Actively participating in management forums internally (e.g. Pricing Committee, Risk validation Steering and Product Forum).
  • Analysing relevant product related regulatory bulletins (e.g. from ABI and FCA)

Essential Skills
We don't expect you to know everything from day one, but the following will enable you to hit the ground running:

  • Experience in underwriting, product development or relevant technical experience
  • Interpret MI and analysis effectively, using data to spot risks, opportunities and recommend solutions
  • Proficient in Excel (intermediate) and PowerPoint
  • Understand underwriting appetite and governance
  • Skilled in stakeholder and project management
  • Clear communication skills reporting and presentation skills
  • Spot risks and opportunities, recommend solutions

What We Will Offer You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:

  • Flexible buy/sell holiday options
  • Hybrid working
  • Annual performance related bonus
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Development days
  • A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
  • Retail discounts
  • Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion
At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

Hr-
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact:
Matthew Mckevitt
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

Closing date 16/12/25
85145 | Underwriting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent

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