Underrwrirting Manager

Are you a strong, commercially minded leader who is looking to deliver excellent customer outcomes and support the continued growth of the business through exploiting underwriting appetite, active portfolio management, underpinned and driven by a risk aware culture.

You will be responsible for delivering the financial plan outcomes through underwriting, pricing, underwriting quality, and portfolio management leadership.

In this role you will lead Mid-Market underwriting approach, to deliver enhanced performance and improved customer outcomes as well as driving portfolio mix and identifying areas/opportunities for growth.

You will achieve this through robust performance management, market pricing, rating and strong Underwriting principals alongside shaping and informing commercial decisions on Profit and Loss of the business based upon your deep insight of the business.

You will work alongside claims, pricing, actuarial, finance and the data science teams who support Mid-Market.
Focussed on delivering for our customers and Brokers, you will lead a small team of technical and portfolio management experts focussed on optimising the portfolio and exploiting our underwriting strategy across the Property Liability and Motor portfolios within Regional Mid-Market.

You will provide strategic portfolio and underwriting direction and support the development of underwriting capability.

You will have:

• Strong experience of portfolio management & how to enable business growth through technical underwriting with a commercial focus
• Strong underwriting experience with the ability to deliver solutions to complex issues and implement underwriting strategies in an operationally effective manner alongside an ability to think strategically and assess the impact of changing risks over the medium term
• A strong and effective communicator and coach with experience in a leadership role and ability to manage senior stakeholders both internally and externally
• Strong understanding of Mid-Market and the issues and challenges facing customers
• Proven ability to be adaptable and versatile with an ability to convey and convert complex data and strategies simply into the underwriting teams

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