Underwriter - Engineering - Birmingham, United Kingdom - NMU (Specialty) Ltd

Description

Underwriter - Engineering (M/F/d)
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Are you looking for an exciting new challenge?


Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Do you have previous Underwriting experience or perhaps you have previously worked within the Insurance sector and feel you have the transferable skills to carry out the role of an Underwriter.

The purpose of this role is to achieve and maintain a profitable, well balanced and growing portfolio with allocated intermediaries and customers to assist in meeting long term trading objectives of the Company.

As part of this role you will work cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a team member.

The role will require you to analyse situations, diagnose problems, identify the key issues, establish and weigh up alternative courses of action and produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution.

Communicating clearly and persuasively, both orally and in writing.

Our Underwriters take constant care in looking after the interests of external and internal customers.

Ensuring that their wants, needs and expectations are given due consideration and that all efforts are made to meet them wherever fair and reasonable, in line with any standards from an industry regulator.

Your job

• Working on site with intermediary/customers, undertaking endtoend handling of straight forward cases for the allocated portfolio to deliver the agreed joint business development plans in line with the Company's overall trading strategy.
• Make effective on site decisions, within delegated authority, for allocated intermediaries so that work is completed efficiently.
• Working with the Engineering Underwriting Manager, the Operations Manager and the underwriting team, develop strong relationships with allocated intermediaries, balancing intermediary needs with the Company's trading objectives in a way that will deliver profitable and balanced training growth.
• Plan and process own work so that the relevant part of the team's workload is handled efficiently and effectively.
• Make a positive input into the team's effectiveness, suggesting ways in which work systems and processes can be amended and improved.
• Respond to and take ownership pf customer enquiries and allocated mail.
• Identify, define and close business opportunities, seeking the input of other members of staff.
• Act as a reference point on all issues for the allocated intermediary/customer referring complex issues where necessary, so that a high level of customer service is delivered.
• Ensure open communication and collaboration across all lines of business and the sales and development function.
• Undertake other duties as directed within the level of the job function.
• Help drive forward good Conduct for the business to deliver the best outcomes for customers / policyholders.
• Understand all appropriate lines of escalation and the responsibilities of the Product Conduct Risk Strategy Group (PCRSG), Underwriting & Claims Sub Committee (UCSC), ExCo and Board for Conduct Risk.

Profile:

• Build and maintain strong internal relationships with other team members, the Claims Department, the Sales and Development Team, the Syndicate and the Directors.
• Build and maintain strong external relationships with a range of contacts within the allocated intermediaries and customers.
• Appropriate level of underwriting knowledge.
• Ability to interpret and effectively use management information.
• Ability and willingness to learn and understand established systems and processes.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Passionate about excellent customer service.
• Ability to prioritise own work and manage workload.

IT Skills;

• Keyboard skills
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS Outlook
• MS Teams
• Power BI (desirable)

About us

As part of Munich Re Specialty Group (MRSG), Munich Re Specialty Insurance (UK) Ltd (MRSI UK) brings together the long-standing and market-leading underwriting and claims expertise of NMU in the UK marine & specialty insurance markets with GrovesJohnWestrup, our UK Private Client proposition for insurance brokers and other intermediaries with clients who have unique and complex risks, as well as GJW Direct, UK's Specialist Direct Boat insurer.

Additionally, MRSI UK is affiliated with Munich Re Digital Partners Ltd (MRDP) that provides digital distributors a comprehensive go-to-market partnership in the UK and the EU, and Munich Re Risk Solutions Ireland Ltd (MRRSI) offering marine & specialty insurance solutions in Ireland and the EU.

Munich Re's employees are the backbone of the Group's business success. They are the people that drive the business forward and develop new solutions for our clients.

Ensuring that we recruit talented staff is therefore crucial to our future success. Our objective is to make Munich Re the employer of choice for potential employees on the global job market.

To help us achieve this goal we offer a co