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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job ref: 203640
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About the role
Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Property Portfolio Underwriter to join our Gloucester office.
This is a key individual role providing support to the Property Underwriting Manager and Property Underwriting Director across various elements of a broad and increasingly diverse Property Account, in turn enabling the Group to deliver its ambitions to give more to charities and other good causes.
Responsibilities are wide-ranging, including tactical and strategic portfolio monitoring, controls & development, large & complex case referrals, risk appetite & underwriting guide development, as well as delivery & oversight of technical policy documentation. This will entail close liaison with many other areas of the business at various levels, including senior management, and external representation.
Joining our rapidly expanding andinnovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career andbecome an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation.
Key responsibilities
* Support the profitable development of the Account and delivery in line with or exceeding plan
* Develop and maintain policy wordings and other technical literature, ensuring regulatory compliance in line with Consumer Duty and Product Oversight and Governance procedures & requirements
o Including liaising effectively with Customer / Product, Marketing, IT and Compliance functions to deliver effective wording solutions
* Portfolio analysis to aid the understanding of Account performance, and support the active monitoring and management of Account KPI’s across various portfolios
* Recommend and draft timely changes & updates to the Line of Business risk appetite, underwriting guidance, pricing and policy wordings & associated literature
* Keep up to date with Line of Business opportunities, threats and market developments, including proactive research, and provide recommendations for action where appropriate
* Act as a technical referral point for the Account and cascade technical expertise to the trading teams and other business units
* Develop and deliver technical Line of Business training material and guidance for the wider business
* Act as a Line of Business and niche specialist, and support UKGI business units develop their knowledge & expertise to enhance relationships with brokers, customers and business partners
* Input into and support the delivery of pricing reviews and refinements as required, including collaboration with Actuarial Pricing
* Ensure underwriting quality is in line with underwriting strategy through;
o development and coaching of underwriting staff to enhanced underwriting capability
o technical audit support and escalation of areas of concern
* Leading the delivery of defined pieces of work end-to-end within agreed timescales
* Work as required across all aspects of the Underwriting function, working outside own area of specialism when needed
Knowledge, skills and experience
* ACII Qualified or Dip CII with commitment to achieve ACII within a defined timescale
* Significant relevant experience of the Commercial insurance industry
* Strong proven property underwriting technical knowledge
* In-depth knowledge of Commercial and Retail policy wordings
* Experience of drafting and delivering policy wordings and other technical literature would be advantageous
* Real Estate / Property Owners experience would be advantageous
* Experience of working with a property surplus treaty would be advantageous
* Experience of leading projects would be advantageous
* Experience of influencing senior stakeholders within underwriting & wider business areas
* Practical experience of the ability to quickly implement new initiatives
* Proficient in Microsoft Office and associated applications
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What we offer
* A competitive salary - let's discuss it
* Hybrid working
* Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
* Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
* A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
* Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
* Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Full study support to gain professional qualifications
* Access to virtual GP
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
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About us
Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.
As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. 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.
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At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating aninclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of usfeels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with arange of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interestsand we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applicationsfrom everyone.
If you need any additional support during therecruitment process, then please let us know.
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