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    Commercial Insurance Underwriter - Birmingham, United Kingdom - AXA

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    At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them.

    Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we've got them covered.


    Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current teams with experienced, engaging, and forward-thinking Commercial Underwriters.

    These roles provide a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative, that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.


    It's an exciting time to join the AXA Commercial team in Birmingham, as we undergo significant growth across our branches to support the overall strategic business plan.

    The role encompasses many opportunities to contribute to the development and success of the branch account, not just from a growth and profitability perspective but driving service excellence to our customers.

    The team ensure close collaboration is supported internally across the teams to be set up for success, as well as engaging and building key relationships with the brokers and panel aligned business developers.

    We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That's why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.


    Build a career that's as dynamic as the market you work in:We're on a journey of transformation, so we're investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.

    We do this with training and tailored development plans.


    As Commercial Underwriter you'll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships.

    With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you'll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed.

    Identify poorly performing accounts and investigate reasons for lack of retention. Agree and implement actions with senior underwriter, TTM & AM to increase retention.


    At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers.

    You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.


    Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.


    You'll be perceptive of what our customers and the market wants and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA's development opportunities.

    Exposure to the UK General Insurance market.

    Commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.

    Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.

    Technical underwriting expertise in a composite insurance environment (non-package).

    Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance (including treating customers fairly).


    This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

    You'll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion.

    For us, it's about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone - regardless of difference.

    AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We're a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.

    Competitive annual salary dependent on experience

    Annual company & performance-based bonus

    Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)

    Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)

    25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

    Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave

    AXA employee discounts


    If you have a long term health condition or disability and require reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, we're proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge.

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