Job Description
Underwriting Leader – Salary £50,000 - £60,000
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Aviva are seeking a commercial Underwriting Leader to join our East Region Mid-market underwriting team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a growing team with the role being based in London. You will also benefit from Aviva’s smart working arrangements, with a mix of home and office working.
As an Underwriting Leader you’ll lead and coach a team of underwriters to achieve profitable growth annually whilst maintaining underwriting integrity every time. Responsible for the profit/loss, revenue, broker alignment, capability, broker/customer relationships, resource, and engagement of the team.
London is a key trading location, you will strengthen and contribute to our continued growth in the Mid-market space. This role could be ideal for you if you’re a dynamic leader with a strong industry led background and track of success.
A bit about the job:
In this role, you will be expected to empower your team of underwriters to be the best that they can be and act as a role model, provide mentoring and share ideas to contribute towards continued capability improvement in our business, whilst influencing key contacts in the marketplace through business development, customer engagement and meaningful meetings with brokers and/or customers in order to build their confidence in Aviva. You will also understand what matters to customers and brokers to provide the right solution and deliver the best outcomes as well as identify and implement any required improvements to underwriting quality and capability.
Skills and experience we’re looking for:
- Underwriting knowledge in property, casualty or construction is essential.
- Experience with applying underwriting knowledge to improve processes and procedures, with strong commercial business acumen to create and deliver business results
- Excellent business development and customer engagement/relationship building and negotiation skills
- To have a love of learning grounded in curiosity, open-mindedness and a drive to make things better by understanding them more completely
- ACII Qualified is desirable
What you’ll get for this role:
- Starting salary between £50,000 and £60,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
- Eligibility for annual performance bonus
- Family friendly parental and carer’s leave
- 29 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
- Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
- Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
- Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
- 21 volunteering hours per year
Aviva is for everyone:
We are inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.
Most of our people are smart working – spending around 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.
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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alannah Burgess a call on 0121 234 7666 or send an email to alannah.burgess1@aviva.com.