Property Portfolio Underwriting Manager - Nationwide.
Our client is looking for a strong, commercially minded technical expert to lead a mid-market commercial property account. You will support continued growth of the business and deliver excellent customer outcomes.
You will have responsibility for delivering the financial plan outcomes through underwriting, pricing, underwriting quality, and portfolio management leadership, underpinned and driven by a risk aware culture.
The Job:
You will lead a Mid-Market Commercial Property Account, working as part of the Mid-Market Portfolio and Underwriting Team. You will develop the underwriting approach to deliver enhanced performance and improved customer outcomes, driving portfolio mix and identifying areas and opportunities for profitable growth. You will achieve this through robust performance management, market pricing, rating and strong underwriting principals alongside shaping and informing commercial decisions on Profit and Loss based upon your deep insight of the business.
You will work alongside Pricing, Chief-Underwriting-Office, Actuarial, Finance, Claims, Automation and Data Science teams who support Mid-Market and actively engage with the regional underwriting teams.
You will deliver for customers and Brokers, working as part of a small team of technical and portfolio management experts focussed on optimising the portfolio and exploiting our underwriting strategy within Regional Mid-Market. You will provide strategic portfolio and underwriting direction and support the development of our underwriting capability.
Skills and experience:
* Good experience of portfolio management & enabling business growth through technical underwriting with a commercial focus
* Strong property underwriting experience with the ability to deliver solutions to complex issues and implement underwriting strategies in an operationally effective manner, including a strong understanding of Mid-Market and the issues and challenges facing our customers
* Able to think strategically and assess the impact of changing risks over the medium term
* A strong and effective communicator and coach with experience in a leadership role and ability to manage senior stakeholders both internally and externally
* Adaptable and versatile with an ability to convey and convert complex data and strategies simply into the underwriting teams.