Trading Underwriter - Bristol, United Kingdom - DAS UK Group

DAS UK Group

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

1 day ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About The Role

We have an opportunity to join our Trading Underwriting Team, at DAS UK Group.

Based in central Bristol with genuine flexible working opportunities, this is a great opportunity for someone with previous underwriting experience.

Reporting into the Trading Underwriting Manager and working alongside Senior and Assistant Trading Underwriters, you will be responsible for dealing with business partners on all aspects of their account, providing our partners with a bespoke service.

Youwill also have the opportunity to get involved in the underwriting of our standard products.

In this role you will meet with our business partners to negotiate renewal terms, provide performance updates and proactively manage their insurance risk.

In addition, you will be responsible for identifying any underwriting issues negatively impacting ourbusiness partners, working with internal and external stakeholders to resolve these issues to our business partners satisfaction.

This is a great opportunity to showcase your communication and relationship building skills and demonstrate experience of effective collaboration with business partners and internal stakeholders.

About You

Underwriting expertise gained through experience of working within a commercial underwriting environment;
Good business acumen (including good understanding of internal and external markets and best practice) and strong commercial and financial awareness;
The ability to work at pace whilst maintaining an accurate, high quality output;
An ability to manage different projects and tasks, while meeting challenging deadlines and exceeding customers' expectations; and
The ability to lead complex underwriting conversations with business partners.

Working at DAS:

25 days holiday with the option to buy up to a further 5 days
Company pension scheme with the option to increase contributions
Group Income Protection for all employees
Group legal protection for all levels
Motor or Home Emergency Assistance
Inclusion in our Health cash plan
Salary sacrifice benefits including cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans
Membership of our Sports and Social club which includes discounted events such as theatre, wine tasting or shopping trips
If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the criteria listed above._

DAS supports our employees to achieve a work life balance that works for them and are happy to discuss flexible working options

Please note, as part of the role you will be required to occasionally demonstrate flexibility in the hours you work and can expect to spend time away from the office (on occasion).

About The Company

As a market leader in the Legal Expenses Insurance market we have undergone rapid growth in recent years.

Thousands of businesses, motorists and individuals defend or pursue legal action each year safe in the knowledge that DAS are paying their legal bills.

We have always been aware that it is the people that really make it happen; the quality of our peopledefines the quality of the company and the standard of service we offer.

DAS are owned by the ERGO Insurance Group, one of the major insurance groups in Germany and Europe and are dedicated to the development of the best staff in the industry.

At DAS, we don't simply talk about our values they are at the heart of everything wedo. They guide us with the way that we work and provide the framework for how we do business. 'Doing the right thing' is central to our behaviour - from building trust, being accountable, putting our customer at the heart of everything that we do which webelieve drives performance

We believe it is an exciting time to join DAS. You can expect an organisation that will challenge and develop you to progress your career.

By giving you every opportunity to develop yourself professionally and personally, we also pride ourselves on having an open, inclusive and high energy culture that encourages a fun working environment and places our customers at the very heart of everythingwe do.

If you are keen to become part of our exciting future then we would love to hear from you.

In addition to the very genuine development opportunities we provide we also offer an extremely generous reward and benefits package.