Trainee Financial Lines Underwriter

**About the role**:
Join AXA UK, voted an award-winning company to work for as a Trainee Technical Underwriter within our Property & Casualty Schemes and Delegated Authorities team. We encourage you to push your boundaries, and we'll provide you with a platform to showcase your skills and develop your career.

This might be the right opportunity if you've already had some exposure to insurance, or looking to make a career change, OR you might have completed your studies and looking for that great opportunity to begin an exciting career.

Our expert teams care for a huge range of customers, helping them protect their businesses against life's uncertainties. Our market-leading products are trusted by millions.

Led by a highly experienced management team with many years in the insurance industry, by supporting our partners, building long term partnerships, and delivering excellent products and service to our customers. The team are committed to nurturing and developing our people to reach their full potential. With growth plans in place, we recognise the importance in identifying talented people to become the next generation of professional Underwriters in our business, where you can make a valued contribution. **Are you ready to join us?**

We offer a bespoke development plan and tailored mentoring to support you and help you cultivate your skills along your journey with us and the tools to maximise your potential to become a high achieving Schemes Technical Underwriter.

**What you'll be doing**:
As a Trainee Underwriter, you'll be working alongside our experienced Underwriters, providing excellent service and working to targets. This will involve building relationships and speaking confidently with brokers over the phone and face to face meetings. As well as providing administration support within the team, you'll learn how to underwrite Schemes and Delegated Authorities business profitably, accurately and in line with established Underwriting practice.
- **Kickstart your career**: We'll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.
- **We'll shape your future together**: We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That's why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.
- **People are at our core**: Whether you're just starting out in your career, working with your team, or making a difference for a customer, people are always at the center of our story.
- **A culture of trust, respect, and care**: Our superpower is our people. We're a vibrant community from all backgrounds. Everyone has the chance to learn, develop and be the very best they can be.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 60% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

**About you**:
**What we’re looking for**:

- **Keep an open mind**: Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.
- **Stay curious**: You’ll be perceptive of what our customers and the market wants and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA’s development opportunities.
- **Be a team player**:Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.
- Passionate about people and committed to growing a career at AXA, looking for opportunities to always learn and be part in shaping the future of our business.
- Active listeners who can demonstrate empathy - put yourself in customers shoes to build key relationships.
- Detail oriented and able to pick up mistakes easily.
- Professional, confident and able to adapt quickly, as you’ll be dealing with different people, including customers and other insurance professionals.

**What we offer**:
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:

- Annual base salary depending on experience
- 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 5 days leave
- AXA employee discounts on AXA insurance products and high-street / online stores
- Gym benefits
- Chartered institute of insurance membership and funding to support qualification
- LinkedIn Learning membership

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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.

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