Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job ref: 204251
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About the role
Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Technical Underwriter to join our Corporate Schemes Underwriting Team in the Gloucester office.
As a Technical Underwriter, you will act as a technical specialist, responsible for embedding quality underwriting across our Schemes Underwriting team and Brokers with delegated authority. This includes delivering coaching to team members, providing training to Underwriters and Brokers, underwriting large cases, conducting audits, and working with key internal and external stakeholders to maintain profitability across a broad range of commercial schemes.
This is an extremely varied role and would be a rewarding opportunity to become an essential player in one of the key growth areas of Ecclesiastical.
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Why join us?
Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.
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What you'll be doing
* Develop, negotiate, and profitably underwrite new/existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
* Monitor and review individual scheme performance at portfolio level
* Act as referral point for the wider schemes team
* Provide structured coaching to individuals and identify training needs; deliver training internally and externally where appropriate
* Undertake underwriting quality audits within the Schemes team and also Scheme Brokers with delegated authority, analyse results and identify training needs for improvement
* Identify complaints, act upon them, and resolve them in line with company policy.
* Represent and promote Ecclesiastical at customer, partner and industry events where required
* Provide project support as required
What you'll need to have
* In-depth and technical knowledge of Insurance
* Appropriate IT skills, including proficiency in excel
* Experience in effective stakeholder management within a commercial environment
* Confident and influential communicator with the ability to negotiate at all levels
* Ability to build and manage co-operative and productive relationships
* Experience of acting as a coach within a commercial environment
* Minimum of 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at grade C or above
What makes you stand out
* Dip CII/ ACII qualified
* Experience of completing audits and providing feedback to improve underwriting performance
* Experience of portfolio management and ability to analyse and produce relevant MI
* Experience of conducting training to individuals and groups
* Candidates with qualifications beyond GCSE level, such as A’ Levels, a diploma or degree
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What we offer
* A competitive salary - let's discuss it
* Hybrid working
* Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
* Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
* An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
* £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
* Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Full study support to gain professional qualifications
* Access to virtual GP
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
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About us
Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.
As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
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At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.
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*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26