▷ [Apply Now] Development Underwriter

1 day ago

Dublin, Ireland Munich Re Full time

This is a key role to develop and implement strategic growth plans in collaboration with the Head of Sales and Distribution and Strategic Account Manager.

This is a market-facing relationship and underwriting role with a primary focus on the acquisition of new business and retention of key renewals, which involves building market relationships across an assigned panel of brokers. Working in collaboration with Strategic Account Managers to achieve sustainable continued profitable growth and revenue in line with business ambitions.

Key Responsibilities:

Profitable Growth

1. Ensuring alignment with HSB’s business growth ambitions; assist growth strategies to successfully maximize new and existing business opportunities and increase market presence.
2. Effectively utilize internal business data sources and industry market intelligence to provide insightful data to inform strategic revenue and customer growth planning activity and support future underwriting activity.
3. Continuously explore new revenue channels and potential markets, being innovative in approach to identify diverse and exciting new opportunities.
4. Continuously monitor and review client activity to enable strategic focus on profitable accounts.
5. Influence, negotiate, and build relationships with key internal and external influencers, ensuring engagement and ‘buy-in’ to enable delivery of strategic growth plans and maximize potential underwriting opportunities.
6. Adopt a collaborative mindset/approach with Strategic Account Managers to enable increased lead generation.
7. Work collaboratively with Product Leads and Underwriting Managers to ensure business acquisition is efficient and meets customer requirements.
8. Support and enable nationwide collaboration to maximize cross-selling, increase retention and rates to ensure achievement of segment and business-wide targets.
9. Contribute to effective loss ratio control by ensuring adherence to business strategies.
10. Develop and maintain constructive and profitable relationships with customers through regular contact, visits, and in line with specific customer strategies.
11. Ensure all issues are resolved promptly ensuring a ‘Customer First’ approach.
12. Attend relevant industry and market-specific events, conferences, and networking activities, raising HSB’s profile and increasing market presence.
13. Attend broker/strategic partner meetings as the technical underwriting lead and deliver presentations and training workshops as required.
14. Undertake and lead on any team or business-wide projects as required.
15. Act as a referral point for underwriting team members in line with underwriting authority to ensure consistent service delivery and achievement of segment targets and the wider business strategies.
16. Increase the technical and trading capability of the underwriting team, acting as a technical mentor and referral point for all policy classes within the team.
17. Work collaboratively with the Leadership Team to create a culture of high performance within the team, leading by example in adhering to the HSB behavioral standards.
18. Maintain accurate records within CRM systems (Dynamics 365), populating with all client interactions and activities to enable and support future opportunities and proactive cross-segment working.
19. Maintain and implement all necessary procedures and processes to ensure internal service standards and FCA Compliance.
20. Attend training to ensure the development of required knowledge and skills to enable effective undertaking of the role.

Key Skills & Experience:

1. Ability to apply strategic approaches in planning activities.
2. Ability to convert data insights into revenue and growth plans.
3. Commercially astute with business planning experience.
4. Demonstrable knowledge/experience of HSB core insurance products.
5. Thorough understanding of the UK Insurance market.
6. Demonstrable experience of ensuring excellent customer relationship management.
7. Pragmatic decision maker with analytical and reasoning skills.
8. Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
9. Collaboration and teamwork.
10. Problem-solving ability.
11. Strong trading capability – commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships.
12. Strong level of technical underwriting expertise gained in a relevant insurance environment.

Qualifications & Educational Requirements:

1. CIP.
2. Degree educated or demonstrable relevant industry experience.

A snapshot of some of our benefits:

1. Employer Pension contribution of 13%.
2. Annual bonus.
3. 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).

At HSB Group (including Premier Guarantee), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion foster innovation and resilience and enable us to act braver and better. Embracing the power of DEI is at the core of who we are. We recognize diversity can be multi-dimensional, intersectional, and complex, so we want to build a diverse workforce that includes a wide range of racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities; economic and geographic backgrounds; physical abilities; ages; life, school, and career experiences; and political, religious, and personal beliefs. Additionally, we are committed to building an equitable and inclusive work environment where this diversity is celebrated, valued, and has equitable opportunities to succeed.

All candidates in consideration for any role can request a reasonable adjustment at any point in our recruitment process. You can request an adjustment by speaking to your Talent Acquisition contact.

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