Job Title: Senior Strategic Underwriter
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £48,000 - £65,000
Location: Hybrid -Eastleigh, Bournemouth, Gloucester, London
Closing Date for Applications: Tuesday 5th November

Senior Strategic Underwriter:

To assimilate large quantities of information and put forward recommendations on how Ageas will remain at the forefront of the UK Insurance industry. This will be achieved by undertaking Underwriting activity to ensure that our capabilities and product offering remain relevant over the medium to longer term.

Main Responsibilities as a Senior Strategic Underwriter:

·        To research, develop and recommend new underwriting concepts utilising market and competitor analysis to maximise account profitability.

·        Work closely with portfolio underwriting teams, risk and market pricing teams and external partners to ensure strategic deliverables are met.

·        To evaluate new scheme, affinity and product propositions in order to identify potential profitability and recommend any necessary underwriting changes.

·        Lead specific ‘Strategic Underwriting Project’ work streams, overseeing the development and implementation of new initiatives, product changes, new product and schemes.

·        Support the coordination of strategic deliverables with key external underwriting and pricing partners ensuring clear communication to stakeholders and alignment of internal views and priorities.

Skills and experience you need as a Senior Strategic Underwriter

·        Knowledge and experience of working in a Personal Lines Underwriting environment, a sound understanding of underwriting principles and experience of a wide range of technical issues. Awareness of the market and legal / industry developments.

·        Strong numeracy skills with an ability to analyse, interpret and identify trends within large volumes of data and to make and present clear and accurate recommendations.

·        Computer literate, able to use Microsoft Office and be willing to learn new applications.

·        Practiced time management experience, a sound understanding of numbers and the ability to quickly identify inconsistencies in data, an analytical thinker who is able to deduce information and who has proven decision making skills.

·        Effective communicator both verbally and in writing, able to communicate technical issues in a clear and helpful way, exhibits good questioning and listening skills, able to persuade and influence others and well developed negotiation skills.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Senior Strategic Underwriter role based in any UK Office:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:
We’re one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see our Diversity and Inclusion pages.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about about our Award Winning team and culture, please visit Careers at Ageas.