Underwriter

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday **Duration**:Permanent **Location**:This role can be based from any one of our regional Lycetts offices, including **Newcastle, Edinburgh, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Ludlow, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Godalming** (hybrid working of 2 days working from home per week available upon successful completion of probation) **About the role**: **Lycetts Insurance Brokers**, who are proudly part of **Benefact Group**, are looking for an **Underwriter** to join one of our regional offices. This is a fantastic opportunity to join **Lycetts**as an **Underwriter**within a growing team where you’ll play a key role in managing and expanding a renewal portfolio, while gaining exposure to diverse binders across multiple sectors. You’ll collaborate closely with brokers to streamline renewals, help shape new products, and build strong relationships with insurers and colleagues, all while providing expert advice that drives business success. **Why join us?**: Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes. **What you'll be doing**: - Play a key role in managing and growing a developing renewal portfolio - Opportunities to get involved in various binders, across different sectors - Working with our broking team to ensure a smooth renewal process, reviewing this where necessary - Helping to establish new products within the underwriting team, building relationships with both insurers and our account executives/handlers - Be part of a growing team - Offering expert advice and solutions to our broking arm **What you'll need to have**: - Previous insurance industry knowledge - Clear communicator with the ability to work well in a team environment - The ability to build and manage co-operative and productive relationships **What makes you stand out**: - Cert CII qualified **What we offer**: - A competitive salary - let's discuss it - Hybrid working available upon successful completion of probation - Employer pension contribution of 5% rising to 10% after 5 years membership of the pension scheme - Annual Bonus scheme (Discretionary based on individual and company performance) - Life Assurance cover up to 4 x salary - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 26 and 27 for 5 and 10 years’ service respectively) - Career development opportunities with funded support and financial incentives for all professional qualifications. - An Employee Assistance Programme with a wide range of benefits helping employees to stay healthy and feel supported. **Hear from the hiring manager**: - "The Lycetts underwriting team is working to achieve something that is extremely rare in the broking world, separating delegated authority from the broking arm of the business, and in turn developing a centre for underwriting excellence. The centre for excellence will provide underwriters of all levels the opportunity to grow and expand both personally and commercially, whilst providing a close knit support network."_ **About us**: **The Lycetts Group**has over 60 years’ experience of providing a comprehensive range of insurance, risk management and financial advice to a broad cross section of commercial and private clients. We strive to be a trusted adviser to our clients and are proud of our continued high client satisfaction scores. **Benefact Group** is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade, having given away £250 million since 2014. 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._** - Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26_