Underwriter, Leeds

**About Markel**:
Avencia are an RPO providing a recruitment service to our client Markel.

Markel Corporation (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

In each of our businesses, we seek to deliver innovative products and responsive customer service so that we can be a market leader. Our time horizon is long-term, our approach is disciplined, and our focus is on continuously improving the quality of thecustomer experience.

**The Role**:
**Underwriter**

**Leeds City Centre**

**£ Competitive + Bonus & Exceptional Benefits**

**Are you looking to develop your career within Underwriting?**

**Help us provide an outstanding underwriting service to our team and brokers across the UK.**

We have a great opportunity for an**Underwriter** to join our team based here in Leeds. The Underwriter will work as part of our Renewal's Connect team dealing with a wide variety of Professional and Management Risks and Charity policies. Workingalongside other departments within the business to develop and maintain relationships both internally and externally and deliver an exceptional service to our brokers.

You will be required to develop and maintain good relationships internally and externally. Monitor and analyse broker activity to identify success and areas for improvement and provide pro-active feedback to the team manager. You will have responsibilityfor renewals and mid-term queries with a desire to be visible to our brokers.

We can offer you a great career path upwards to Underwriter/Senior Underwriter along with funding and support for your CII qualification

**If you're looking to develop your underwriting career then this may be the role for you**

**What you'll be doing**:

- Provide and maintain a good level of underwriting, demonstrating a thorough knowledge of company guidelines and authority levels in order to achieve defined objectives
- Underwriting risks in accordance within own personal level of underwriting authority
- Ensure incoming calls to the team are answered promptly and professionally
- Attend underwriting meetings as required throughout the year to provide insight into developments, trends and feedback on market conditions
- Manage renewal cases working as appropriate with the broker to secure renewal and upsell/ cross-sell additional covers
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the Technical teams in Leeds and the wider business
- Assisting the team and wider business with ad hoc projects

**What we're looking for**:

- Proven relevant insurance experience and demonstrable technical skills
- Background and experience in our classes of business is desirable, but not necessary
- Excellent written, spoken communication and numerical skills
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Demonstrable IT skills including MS Office
- Be studying for/or be willing to study for CII qualifications (fully funded by Markel)
- Knowledge of Acturis is preferred, but is not a requirement

**What's in it for you**:

- A very competitive basic salary plus bonus & benefits.
- 25 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave.
- Company matched pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, a cycle2work scheme, season ticket loan, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), parental, adoption and shared parental leave pay..andplenty more.
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
- The possibility of working from both the office and from home, flexible working or other options are available.
- You'll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere within Markel.
- You'll be joining a global network of experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple teams and countries. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we'll provide the support you need to do justthat.

**What we hope you'll do next**:
We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protectedcharacteristic.

We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.