Senior Technical Property Underwriter
London, Birmingham, Perth, Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester or Leeds
Competitive salary and bonus
Are you ready to shape the future of property underwriting?
We’re looking for a confident, strategic thinker with deep technical property underwriting expertise to join our Chief Underwriting Office within Commercial Lines. If you’re passionate about tackling emerging risks, influencing underwriting strategy, and supporting profitable growth – this could be your next big move.
A bit about the job :
This is a high-impact role that spans our entire commercial portfolio, including Digital, Schemes, Mid-Market, and Global Corporate & Specialty. You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering our underwriting strategy, ensuring we stay ahead of the evolving needs of our customers and the risks they face.
As a senior technical expert, you’ll define risk acceptance criteria, support the underwriting of complex risks, and help strengthen technical capability across the team. You’ll also contribute to the development of market-leading products and policy wordings, while identifying opportunities and mitigating risks through the review of technical and legal developments.
In addition, you’ll act as a key representative of the Property team, building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the business and wider industry.
Skills and experience we’re looking for:
* Strong technical Property underwriting experience, ideally including exposure to international risks ( i.e. EEA or Global markets ), a solid understanding ofLloyd’s market practicesor direct experience working within aLloyd’s syndicate
* St rategic mindset with the ability to assess long-term risk trends
* Experie nce influencing underwriting strategy and delivering business-critical projects
* Confident communicator with a collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement
* ACII qualified (or working towards it)
What you’ll get for this role:
* Competitive salary depending on skills, experience, and location
* Competitive b onus opportunity
* Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
* 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
* Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
* Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
* Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
* Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
* Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
* We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
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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 would still encourage you to apply. 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 - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please contact Daisy Holmes on +44 (0) 7436 672007 or daisy.holmes1@aviva.com.
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