Underwriting Team Manager 25 views

Job Description

About You

This is an excellent position for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our Mid-Market Leadership Team in Southampton Branch. You will be working with a team of Insurance professionals who are recognised as experts within their field.

We offer a great environment to support and nurture development. This is an ideal opportunity for an individual constantly looking to develop and enhance their own skill set who will ensure the technical and professional development of their team is an ongoing priority and instil an ethos of continuous development.

Skills & Experience:  

Leadership and People Management

• Experience of leading a team, monitoring performance and ensuring your team is focussed on the key challenges at all times ideally within an insurance environment is desirable but not essential.
• You must enjoy interacting with others, building strong internal and external relationships and have excellent communication skills to drive and foster a team culture.
• You should be confident handling, analysing and interpreting data.
• You should thrive in a fast-paced environment and get a sense of achievement meeting goals and targets.
• Evidence of personal and professional development and commitment to study for and the Chartered Insurance Institute exams (ACII) is essential.

Operational/Technical Management:

You should have experience to effectively prioritise and organise work to maximise opportunities and deliver the business result by:

• Empowering your team to operate utilising best practice in operational efficiency.
• Enabling your team to operate to best advantage by ensuring technical training, authority level advancement and underwriting capability is maximised.
• Monitoring and reporting of relevant KPIs
• Positively roll out new processes as required.
• Project management as required.

Collaboration and Best Practice:

• Providing support to all stakeholders.
• Enthusiastically embrace One Allianz and understand the range of propositions that we have to offer, both within Allianz UK and globally.
• Ensure compliance, both personally and in your team, with corporate governance, Allianz Standards Underwriting (ASU) and regulatory requirements.
• Support Compliance and Corporate Governance across underwriting discipline.