Senior Construction Underwriter Location: Birmingham - competitive salary on offer (depending on experience) Are you an experienced underwriter ready to shape the future of construction insurance at Aviva? This is a great opportunity for someone with strong construction or engineering underwriting experience who's ready to take the next step. You'll thrive if you enjoy building relationships, mentoring others, and making a real impact in a growing team. A bit about the job: We're expanding our regional construction capability and have created this new role to bridge the gap between our London Market Construction team and regional underwriters. You'll report to the Regional Specialty Lines Construction Manager and play a key role in growing our presence in the market. You'll lead trading activity, support colleagues, and help shape how we deliver for our customers. FYI - This role will involve extensive regional travel as well as require regular attendance at our Birmingham office! Skills and experience we're looking for: Good knowledge of Construction or Engineering & Casualty Insurance, with strong underwriting experience required - including specific project and annual risks. ACII or similar qualification or working towards is highly desirable! Experience of leading and following co-insured business and dealing with re-insurance Experience of applying underwriting knowledge to effectively improve processes/procedures as well as managing your own underwriting caseload within a regulatory environment (following due process and within set authority limits). Ability to analyse complex information and draw out the relevant facts. Excellent business development/customer engagement skills i.e., be able to demonstrate the ability to influence key contacts in the marketplace. What you'll get for this role: Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We offer: Competitive salary (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications) Competitive bonus opportunity - depending on grade and performance Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14% 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, plus other retailer discounts Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options like cycle to work 3 paid volunteering days to give back to your community Wellbeing support and tools to help you thrive Aviva is for everyone: We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we'd still love to hear from you. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part-time and job shares. We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week. To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please email us to let us know you have a disclosed disability, and we'll make sure you're offered an interview. We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you need an alternative method, please get in touch with Daisy Holmes on 44 (0) 7436 672007 or daisy.holmes1@aviva.com .