Mid-market Underwriter - Leeds, United Kingdom - AXA UK

AXA UK
AXA UK
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Leeds, United Kingdom

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About the role:


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 Leeds, as we undergo significant growth across our branches to support the overall strategic business plan.

We're currently looking to strengthen the team and bring to market the opportunity to join us a Property & Casualty Underwriter within the Existing Business Team.


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.


What's in it for you:

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We'll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow:It's our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. 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.
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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.
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Shape your career one decision at a time:We'll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.


What you'll be doing:

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.

You'll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth, across new and existing business within the key markets.

  • Underwrite Property & Casualty business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of tools available.
  • Build a reputation as a trading expert with a panel of intermediaries and build confidence in the branch ability through interaction with our Underwriting Technical Centre.
  • Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers to portray AXA capabilities and secure new business opportunities.
  • Identify poorly performing accounts and investigate reasons for lack of retention. Agree and implement actions with senior underwriter, TTM & AM to increase retention.
  • Actively encourage retention of profitable business.


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.


About you:


What we're looking for:

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Keep an open mind:Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.
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Stay curious: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.
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Be a team player:Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.

  • Dip CII Qualification or working towards ACII qualification.
  • Exposure to the UK General Insurance market.
  • Commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.
  • Pragmatic and confident decision maker with good numerical reasoning skills.
  • Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.
  • Technical underwriting expertise in a composite insurance environment (nonpackage).
  • Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance (including treating customers fairly).

What we offer:


At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that.

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