Senior Underwriter - Health & Care

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Overview

We are seeking an experienced property and casualty underwriter to join our specialised Health & Care team in any of our UK offices. This role offers the chance to transition into an engaging sector with development support - no prior Health & Care experience required.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take responsibility for some of our largest renewals; strategically partnering and building relationships with brokers and clients, to provide insurance solutions. You’ll be a technical Underwriter who is decisive, detail-oriented, and able to build relationships internally and externally and negotiate terms to drive results.

Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion.

What Will You Do

  • Manage the profitability, growth, and retention of an assigned book of business primarily comprised of moderate to complex accounts across all our products.
  • Underwrite and skillfully negotiate moderate to complex risks to minimise risk and maximise profitability, including Mid Term Adjustments (MTA).
  • Proactively manage your portfolio, ensuring key performance indicators are consistently achieved and actively target new business and retention.
  • Identify and take corrective action based on individual risk characteristics identified through Portfolio Management to actively manage your portfolio of risks.
  • Identify and capture opportunities to write additional lines of business using knowledge of products, risk characteristics and appetite.
  • Proactively utilise various technology platforms to quote and bind risk efficiently.
  • Prepare, lead and present Underwriting Reviews for individual policies or portfolios/schemes and manage action points.
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with internal partners within the business unit and across the enterprise to identify cross-selling opportunities.
  • Foster and maintain relationships with brokers by phone, email or other communication channels to market and sell Travelers products with a goal of writing and retaining accounts consistent with our risk appetite. Must be able to travel to meetings.
  • Develop and execute retention plans and support the new business teams to win business that align with the team’s sales plans, working in partnership with the sales team.
  • Train and mentor less experienced underwriters.
  • Provide support and collaboration for more junior team members, including referrals.

Seniority and Employment

  • Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type: Full-time
  • Job function: General Business
  • Industries: Insurance

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Location:
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£80,000 - £100,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Finance

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