Role Description

Join Allianz UK as our Head of Technical Underwriting - Motor and lead the strategic and technical direction of its Personal Lines Motor portfolio. This high‑impact role involves providing expert underwriting guidance, overseeing risk acceptance, and driving technical leadership across the business. The successful candidate will analyse emerging trends, translate insights into product innovation, and drive the development and implementation of underwriting strategy. With responsibility for product management and technical governance, this role offers the opportunity to shape the future of motor insurance at Allianz through collaboration, innovation, and expert decision‑making.

Location: Hybrid role requiring attendance at one of our London, Bournemouth or Birmingham offices (50% per month).

Responsibilities

• Full technical responsibility for risk acceptance criteria and terms applied to new and existing customers.
• Develop and maintain products that are fit for, and attractive to, our target market and offer good value.
• Ensure full compliance with all relevant governance and regulatory standards, including timely closure of audit actions and appropriate product monitoring and control.
• Play a key role in the assessment of new underwriters, at recruitment and initial sign‑off stages, and support the development of the existing team.
• Grant individual underwriting authority, ensuring operation within authority at both individual and smart circle level.
• Steer projects and strategic activity, assessing impact on our existing underwriting capability and assisting practical implementation.
• Attend industry events to keep abreast of underwriting issues and developments.
• Represent underwriting across the business, wider insurance industry, and to customers via media channels and public speaking engagements.

Essential Skills

• Substantial underwriting and/or portfolio management experience.
• Knowledge and experience of underwriting rules development, product development and personal lines trading environment.
• Insurance industry knowledge required, and experience of taking part in wider industry discussions preferred.
• Previous senior underwriting position held.
• Previous project management/steering experience preferred.

What We Offer You

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options.
• Hybrid working.
• Annual performance‑related bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Development days.
• Discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet.
• Retail discounts.
• Volunteering days.

Ways of Working

We support hybrid work patterns balanced with customer and business needs. Our aim is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive. Your work‑life balance is important to us.

Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust

We believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer. We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long‑term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme. Contact the Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications: hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk.

Contact: Matthew Mckevitt
Closing date: 05/12/2025
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.