Assistant Underwriter

**Assistant Underwriter**

Location: Manchester

Salary: (Competitive - Dependant on experience)

**Hot benefits**:

- Hybrid role - split time between home and office to ensure a wellbeing and work-life balance
- Annual bonus scheme
- Retail discounts including BMW, Vodafone, Uber Eats, attractions, travel, shops, and more
- Development days and unlimited Learning & Development opportunities
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products for you and your family including car, home, pet, and equine
- Modern spacious city centre office location with great opportunities for market networking
- Regular team social events

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Allianz partners with many sports organisations such as the Olympic and Paralympic movements, England Rugby, Drone Racing, Formula E, Golf, and Football. You have access to early ticket releases, and the chance to be involved in sport partnership projects. We also hold many charity events to support our chosen charity, Mind and we also have a dedicated wellbeing team plus vibrant diverse employee networks.

Interested to hear more? Fancy working for a leading insurer? Fancy learning and developing your underwriting skills?

We can offer you training from the day you join our team and we’ll provide ongoing development to ensure you excel in your career with Allianz, not to mention the unrivalled benefits package we offer employees.

You’ll quickly develop an understanding of how to approach the evaluation of risks, as well as how to foster strong relationships with our broker clients. You’ll have the opportunity to develop a range of technical, commercial, and operational skills that are vital to your development and the business.

You will become a key part of a team that will support you to learn underwriting skills and accelerate your development. You will work closely alongside experienced underwriters in a culture that is passionate about developing you. You will get underwriting exposure to a number of lines of business and there is great scope for progression.

Applications would be welcome from individuals without previous experience but with a willingness to learn and a positive, proactive attitude.

**Flexible Working**

Here at Allianz 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.

Helping you achieve a good work life balance is important to us. Lots of our colleagues work flexibly including part time hours and/or job shares and we are happy to discuss these opportunities with you.

This role will involve working from home combined with time in our Manchester office two days per week.

**Job duties**
- Building strong relationships with brokers, negotiating effectively, and providing excellent customer service at all times
- Working as part of a close-knit team to offer renewal terms before deadlines, along with mid-term adjustments, survey preparation, and other types of policy transaction as needed
- Thorough checking and issuing of documents to clients
- Learning about different areas of the business from industry-leading Underwriters
- Support the wider teams by being proactive, enthusiastic and by challenging yourself to go out of your comfort zone.
- Provide suggestions to continuously improve the business in an ever-changing environment

**Job skills**

You will need to demonstrate:

- Passion about your development
- Taking initiative and being proactive within a team
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and good analytical skills
- Good decision-making skills
- Commitment to progressing towards CII qualifications

**Our Benefits**

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from - including: retail discounts and discounted insurance cover - so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

- 22 Days holiday & 1 addition for birthday plus bank holidays
- Competitive Annual Salary
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Annual company & performance-based bonus (6%)
- Generous pension contributions and Life Cover up to 4 x salary
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Professional mental health support for all employees
- Health and Wellbeing
- We can offer fulltime and part time hours
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Access to Learning and Development opportunities such as LinkedIn Learning and our mentoring scheme

**Growing your career with Allianz**

We'll provide you with the tools to adapt and change with us, so you can grow your career, while building the skills needed for whatever t