Senior Fleet Underwriter

**Description**:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Fleet Underwriter to join our Leeds office where you will be dealing with new business and renewals, as well as being integral to the training & coaching of colleagues.

The role encompasses many opportunities to contribute to the development and success of the branch account, not just from a growth and profitability perspective but driving service excellence to our customers. The team ensure close collaboration is supported internally across the teams to be set up for success, as well as engaging and building key relationships with the brokers and panel aligned business developers.

This is about working smarter and more efficiently - giving us the perfect platform to deliver our business strategy. At AXA we're adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the **Leeds** office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Underwriting complex larger fleet risks and other commercial motor classes
- Delivering planned financial results through the effective underwriting of case
- Contributing to loss ratio control by effectively adhering to branch underwriting controls and ensuring your colleagues do the same
- Building effective trading relationships with Brokers through trading activity - being recognised as a positive trading partner
- Identifying poorly performing accounts and investigating reasons for lack of conversion, retention &/or rate increase
- Contributing to the improvement of profitability by implementing actions agreed with brokers to improve account performance
- Supporting the development of colleagues by coaching and acting as a reference point - assisting in decision making within empowerment

**Qualifications**:

- Experience of working on larger fleet cases
- Exposure to the UK General Insurance market is essential, including existing trading relationships specifically across the Leeds or Newcastle markets
- Progress towards CII qualification - preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong trading capability - commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.
- Pragmatic decision making with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
- Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment is desirable.
- Sound understanding of commercial lines insurance products, industry knowledge and regulatory framework.
- Experience of working in teams and a successful record of delivering results.

**What we offer**:
One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

- Competitive annual salary
- 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 3 days leave
- AXA employee discounts
- Gym benefits

Our ambition is to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for, as such we’re committed to supporting employee needs, providing meaningful career development and celebrating differences. We understand that everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities, therefore we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.

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**About AXA**:
With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.

But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.

You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things - nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.

Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone - regardless of difference.

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, a global insurance brand and a worldwide leader in financial services, AXA Insurance businesses employ over 5,500 in a network of offices across the UK. Our expert teams care for a huge range of customers, helping them protect their cars, homes and businesses against life’s uncertainties. Whether bought directly, through brokers or through a number of corp