Underwriter - Commercial Schemes

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Duration**:Permanent

**Location**:Gloucester

**Job ref**:203447

**About the role***:
**Ecclesiastical Insurance**, who are proudly part of **Benefact Group** are looking for an **Underwriter** to join our** Gloucester**based team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing team at Ecclesiastical. The Schemes Department at Ecclesiastical underwrites a broad range of commercial schemes, providing delegated authority to our broker partners. With a risk appetite that is wider than Ecclesiastical’s standard niche offering you could be involved with schemes that cater for nurseries, holiday homes or even farms.

The successful applicant will be part of the underwriting team. Our broker partners already hold a degree of delegated authority so you will act as a referral point for them on varied and unique risks.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite new/existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy.
- Act as a referral point for broker partners who hold delegated underwriting authority for Commercial insurance ranging from property owners, commercial package through to charities, clubs, trades and the like
- Develop rapport with select panel of broker partners
- Plan, prioritise and manage individual own work to deliver meet agreed objectives and SLA’s, and to deliver exceptional customer service.
- Use the appropriate method of communication (telephone, face to face) to maintain successful Internal and External relationships.
- Act on individual audit results and agreed action plans within agreed deadlines to improve own performance.
- Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business.
- Identify complaints and act upon them in line with company policy.
- Actively expand personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD).

**Knowledge, skills and experience**:

- Minimum of 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at grade C or above or equivalent
- Qualified Cert CII or commitment to work towards within an agreed timescale
- Strong verbal communication skills
- A proven ability to deliver exceptional customer service
- Appropriate IT skills

**What we offer**:

- A competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Hybrid working
- Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
- Generous annual bonus scheme up to **2**4%***:

- **25** days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
- Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
- Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Full study support to gain professional qualifications
- Access to virtual GP
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

**About us***:
**Ecclesiastical Insurance** offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

**Benefact Group** is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

**_ If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know._