Guildford, ENG, GB, GU1 1DB
London, ENG, GB, EC3V 0HR
Area of Expertise: Underwriting
Unit: Allianz UK
Employing Entity: Allianz Management Services Ltd
Job Type: Full-Time
Remote Job: Hybrid working
Employment Type: Permanent
ID: 59575
Non-Executive
Who we are
Allianz is a global insurance company serving across 70 different countries. From the very first day you join our team, you’ll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world-class learning and career development opportunities while celebrating an inclusive culture.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our expert-led Allianz Construction team. As an integral member within the Regional team, your focus will be on profitable growth, retention, and technical excellence in building a world-class, multi-niche Insurance & Engineering related service. With ambitious growth targets for 2024 and beyond, you will be a key team player helping us to reach our goals.
The role is for an Underwriter to join our Construction Business Expert Team focusing on underwriting Construction risks with associated Casualty/Liability covers to ensure Customer business growth and retention. This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days in our Southampton office.
You will play an active role in contributing towards the delivery of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across the regional branch account, underwriting Commercial business & building strong relationships with both internal & external customers.
Our Underwriters handle Commercial Construction Insurance, upholding technically excellent underwriting standards & delivering excellent customer service to our brokers.
* Providing excellent service to our customers
* Building and developing successful Broker relationships
* Being visible in the local market with brokers and end customers
* Developing business relationships with key clients
* Achieving agreed financial and operational performance targets
* Handling general customers' queries via telephone and in writing within agreed service standards
* Underwriting new and existing business and mid-term adjustments including analysis and compilation of data for referral
* Negotiating within authority and referring where appropriate to maximize customer growth
* Calculating, negotiating and inviting renewal terms in line with external and internal deadlines
* Collaborating strongly with other departments to achieve the Company's goals in respect of service delivery
Skills & Experience
* Experience in underwriting Construction risks is preferred; knowledge in any of the following would be beneficial: CAR, EAR, Contractors Plant, Computer, Electronics, Machinery Breakdown, Property or Casualty.
* Applications are welcome from individuals without previous experience but with a willingness to learn and a positive, proactive attitude.
* Excellent relationship management skills
* Practical knowledge of MS Office and MS Outlook
* Excellent verbal influencing and trading skills
* Taking initiative and being proactive within a team
* Commitment to undertaking and progressing towards CII qualifications
Our Ways of Working
Do you need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application, and if it’s right for our customers, our business, and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen.
Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work-life balance is important to us.
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At Allianz, we value diversity and inclusion and back this up with our accreditations. Allianz is EDGE certified for gender inclusion, members of the Women in Finance Charter, members of the Stonewall Diversity Champion programme, signatories of Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter, and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We have a range of employee networks focusing on gender inclusion, cultural diversity, LGBTQIA+, disability and long-term health conditions (including neurodiversity), intergenerational and life stages, parents and carers, mental wellbeing, menopause support, and armed forces and veterans, all supporting you to bring your best and authentic self to work.
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams, and challenges is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow, and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.
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