Assistant Underwriter

Are you looking to develop your career within Underwriting?

Come and help us provide an outstanding underwriting service to our clients and brokers here at Markel

What part will you play? If you're looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you've found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you'll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We're always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

The opportunity:

We have a great opportunity for an Assistant Underwriter to join our Renewals Connect team based in Leeds. The Assistant Underwriter will provide an excellent underwriting service for brokers across the UK. Working as part of a team being pro-active and willing to help brokers across all classes of business. Developing relationships internally and externally, monitor and analyse broker activity to identify success and area's for improvement and provide pro-active feedback to your team manager.

We can offer a great career path upwards to Underwriter/Senior Underwriter along with funding and support for your CII qualification!

What you'll be doing:

• Provide and maintain a good level of underwriting, demonstrating a thorough knowledge of company guidelines and authority levels in order to achieve defined objectives
• Underwriting risks in accordance within own personal underwriting authority level
• Provide excellent service to brokers, prioritising renewals and mid-term adjustments and referrals whether emanating from the broker e-trading platform, Acturis or by email/phone to ensure deadlines are met
• Ensure incoming calls are answered promptly and professionally
• Diarise and follow-up renewals with brokers with the purpose of securing and retaining business
• Review broker generated activities and encourage broker to deal with Markel by highlighting our product benefits and negotiating terms. Analyse broker performance and report findings to the team manager
• Manage renewal cases working as appropriate with the broker to secure renewal and upsell/ cross-sell additional covers
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the Technical teams in Leeds and the wider business

Our must haves:

• Proven relevant insurance experience and demonstrable technical skills ideally
• Background and experience in our lines of business is desirable, commercial, commercial combined, D&O, construction, social welfare, PI, EL/PL
• Excellent written, spoken communication and numerical skills
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Demonstrable IT skills including MS Office
• Be studying for/or be willing to study for CII qualifications
• Knowledge of Acturis is preferred

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

Avencia Consulting are an RPO who provide a recruitment service to our client Markel International.

What's in it for you?

* A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…

* 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave

* Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer

* There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose 'Apply Now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.