Pricing Underwriter 12 Month Ftc/secondment

**Description**:
At AXA Health, the aim is to deliver the very best possible health outcomes with the highest levels of engagement and care. This is done through challenging the status quo, developing new and better ways of doing things, embracing the latest expertise and technologies, and building enduring partnerships.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Pricing Underwriter within our Pricing Team at AXA Health. The Pricing Underwriter will provide technical pricing support for sales account managers and other internal and external customers, which will encompass the delivery of pricing renewals through trend analysis and justification of terms to assist in the negotiation process.

At AXA we're adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the Bristol or Tunbridge Wells office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. In this role, you will be required to be in the office up to 2 days per week, more initially during the training and induction period. We are also happy to consider this role on a part-time basis but we're happy to discuss flexibility.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Managing a portfolio of large corporate renewals where you'll be negotiating and monitoring the performance
- Assess the risk and underwrite Large Corporate clients, where you will use your skills to support our Sales colleagues in the renewal of our existing business, and with our potential new business clients
- Get involved in various exciting new pricing projects
- In the longer trm, support with the training for new team members and assist with the pricing training of sales colleagues.
- Provide excellent service and promote the business through a polite, helpful and willing attitude to both external and internal customers

**Qualifications**:

- Be a logical thinker with an analytical mind, and an eye for accuracy and attention to detail.
- Working in a similar role and have some experience or knowledge in Insurance is preferred.
- You'll be a natural with numbers and have experience working with Microsoft tools such as Excel.
- Relationships are key to this role, so you will work well as part of a wider team, and also have an ability to build rapport with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Although not essential, an understanding of the Health Insurance market and elements of risk relating to a corporate client would be highly advantageous.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in the United Kingdom.

**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 of up to £30,000 - dependent on experience
- Discretionary 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.

**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.

AXA Health is the UK healthcare specialist for the AXA Group. Whatever our customers’ health goals, we help them get there. That could be getting someone physio for an injury that’s holding them back or finding them the right specialist to take their treatment forward. Our team are experts in their fields: from experienced cancer nurses to pioneering data analysts; from our highly respected customer service team to our w