Job Title - Property and Packages Underwriting Manager
Job Market: Insurance Underwriting
Job Location - London / Work from home
Property and Packages Underwriting Manager - About the role
A specialist MGA providing niche commercial lines products across 3 divisions are looking for an Underwriting Manager to join their team.
You will provide support to the CUO and Portfolio Director with underwriting expertise to help build, analyse and review underwriting plans; liaising regularly between insurers and the MGA in the development of underwriting strategy specific to binders/insurer and in developing and monitoring best practice underwriting standards across the business.
Property and Packages Underwriting Manager - Key duties
Property and Packages Underwriting Manager Attend insurer meetings -both formal and ad hoc -and produce or provide inputs to those meetings as required and work with the MGA to implement agreed underwriting and pricing strategy
Analyse data and provide key findings and recommendations
Monitor loss ratio targets by binder and recommend corrective action
Build underwriting plans for finalising and approval within the MGU and with insurers
Work closely with the business teams and technical managers to understand performance issues
Provide impact analysis of proposed portfolio changes
Model and present adhoc data for capacity partners and support the selection and securing of new capacity partners
Support the MGU in areas where a consistent approach to underwriting best practice needs designing and implementing
Liaise with technical managers within the business to develop best practice and a systematic approach to technical underwriting e.g. technical peer review, licence frameworks, training and development frameworks .
Monitor adherence to appropriate underwriting standards
Support proposition development and implementation for both new and existing binders
Property and Packages Underwriting Manager - Key requirements
Technical underwriting experience in either Property or Casualty insurance
Experience gained from an insurance company background in an underwriting role
Some experience of working within a portfolio team would be of benefit
Some knowledge of delegating underwriting would be of benefit
Understanding of underwriting calculations - loss ratio, ultimate loss ratios, combined ratios, accident year and underwriting year basis of calculation
Ability to analyse data and trends and draw conclusions form key data sets
Strong working knowledge of excel and PowerPoint
Solutions focused underwriter
Profit and growth approach