About You
This is an excellent position for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our Mid-Market Leadership Team in Southampton Branch. You will be working with a team of Insurance professionals who are recognised as experts within their field.
We offer a great environment to support and nurture development. This is an ideal opportunity for an individual constantly looking to develop and enhance their own skill set who will ensure the technical and professional development of their team is an ongoing priority and instil an ethos of continuous development.
Skills & Experience:
Leadership and People Management
* Experience of leading a team, monitoring performance and ensuring your team is focussed on the key challenges at all times ideally within an insurance environment is desirable but not essential.
* You must enjoy interacting with others, building strong internal and external relationships and have excellent communication skills to drive and foster a team culture.
* You should be confident handling, analysing and interpreting data.
* You should thrive in a fast-paced environment and get a sense of achievement meeting goals and targets.
* Evidence of personal and professional development and commitment to study for and the Chartered Insurance Institute exams (ACII) is essential.
Operational/Technical Management:
* Experience to effectively prioritise and organise work to maximise opportunities and deliver the business result by empowering your team to operate utilising best practice in operational efficiency.
* Enabling your team to operate to best advantage by ensuring technical training, authority level advancement and underwriting capability is maximised.
* Monitoring and reporting of relevant KPIs.
* Positively roll out new processes as required.
* Project management as required.
Collaboration and Best Practice:
* Providing support to all stakeholders.
* Enthusiastically embrace One Allianz and understand the range of propositions that we have to offer, both within Allianz UK and globally.
* Ensure compliance, both personally and in your team, with corporate governance, Allianz Standards Underwriting (ASU) and regulatory requirements.
* Support Compliance and Corporate Governance across underwriting discipline.
What We Will Offer You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from - so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:
* Flexible buy/sell holiday options 22 - 27 Days Holidays
* Hybrid working.
* Annual performance related bonus
* Contributory pension scheme
* Development days
* A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet.
* Retail discounts
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.
Our Purpose and Values
We secure your future.
Be Brave | With Heart | Everyone Counts | Inspiring Trust
Our purpose and values are more than just words on a website - they are the why and how of Allianz. They influence everything we do and guide us how to do it. Created by our people, for our people, they shape our culture, bring us together, and inspire us to be the best. Building an inclusive culture for us all to succeed.
Company
About Us
In the UK, Allianz Insurance employs over 8,000 people up and down the country. The company’s Head Office is situated in Guildford, Surrey, plus we have additional support services with over 1,000 people based in Trivandrum, India.
We offer commercial insurance with a full range of products for sole traders, right up to large commercial organisations. We also provide a range of personal insurances including, home and motor, musical, legal expenses insurance and cover for pets and horses.
We’re a global company, but 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 we celebrate an inclusive culture.
Flexible Working
Here at Allianz 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.
Helping you achieve a good work life balance is important to us. Lots of our colleagues work flexibly including part time hours and/or job shares and we are happy to discuss these opportunities with you.
Inclusion & Diversity
We believe that having a strong focus on Inclusion and Diversity enables us to better understand the customers we serve and the people across our teams. We recognise that people work in different ways and we value alternative viewpoints, celebrate individuality and foster a culture where everyone can bring their best self to work and feel a sense of belonging. It’s really important to us that we create a diverse workforce and we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments and support to all applicants with a disability and we interview every applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact us at hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk to let us know if you have a disability and to discuss how we can support you throughout the application process.
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