Senior Schemes Underwriter - #1664003

Job Type

Permanent

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The role

We have a market leading reputation for producing bespoke solutions for niche customer groups managed by our broker partners. Within the wider Schemes team we deliver Schemes solutions across the UK retail business.

You’ll work across the existing portfolio of schemes business as well as the creation of new scheme opportunities. You’ll work with the wider Schemes Team across underwriting, operations, sales and the wider senior leadership team to drive improvement and profitable growth of our schemes portfolio, playing an integral part in realising our ambitions of growing the book in line with our strategic ambitions.

You’ll have responsibility for dealing with the schemes business, dealing not only with underwriting business and servicing our schemes partner brokers, but also the opportunity to help drive and shape our wider underwriting strategy and growth.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Delivering exceptional service to our brokers, dealing with referrals and writing more complex business
• In conjunction with Sector lead and schemes underwriting team responsible and accountable for the profitable growth of schemes
• Challenge convention on a regular basis, able to suggest and execute effective growth and portfolio underwriting strategies to ensure sustained profitable growth
• Keep abreast of new risks and exposures within our chosen sectors to ensure Hiscox market leading position is maintained.
• Working with the Sector lead to help develop new products and propositions and maximise the opportunity within our current/future portfolios of business
• As a senior member of the team take an active role in mentoring and developing more junior members of the team
• Working with the Sector lead around shaping and driving the underlying underwriting strategy and portfolio of business to deliver our 2030 ambitions
• Taking underwriting ownership, relationship management and accountability for some of our key strategic broker partners
  
  
  

Our Must-haves

• Ability to make a confident decision in difficult and complex situations
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work independently in a collaborative environment
• Minimum 5+ years of previous underwriting or analytical experience including Professional Indemnity or Financial lines experience
• ACII qualification or progression towards
• Comfortable analysing, making and executing underwriting recommendations on portfolios of business or willing to learn these skills
• Interest in developing as a potential sector expert in a specialist area
• Able to demonstrate influencing and negotiation skills
• Open to new ideas, innovation and educated risk taking
  
  
  

About Hiscox UK

Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognized as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technology companies. Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.

Diversity & Benefits

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. 

 

Working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.  This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. 

 

We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other. 

 

 Our benefits package includes a bonus, contributory pension, 25 days annual leave plus 2 Hiscox days and a 4 week paid sabbatical with every 5 years’ worth of service, private medical for all the family and much more.

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture