Senior Underwriting Coach – SME

• Coach, train and develop New Business Underwriters to continually improve their technical and trading capability and delivering the financial targets of the SME business
• Be the referral point for Underwriters, coaching Underwriters to make decisions within their empowerment and providing technical and trading input to improve the quality of underwriting decisions
• Delivery of planned underwriting result for designated accounts through proactive account review, analysis of underwriting trends and improvement plans implemented to improve profitability
• Manage underwriting relationships with key brokers from designated accounts to deliver profitable growth
• Actively manage and review underwriting standards and licences within the team ensuring effective management and deployment of empowerment
• Support Trading Team Manager to effectively manage the service provided to brokers and input to the performance management of Underwriters
• Audit & Governance – maintain and monitor an effective control environment compliant with all regulatory & relevant control standards

• Coaching and development skills within in a similar environment and experience of working in teams and a successful record of delivering results
• Progress towards Dip CII qualification desirable
• Technical underwriting expertise in a commercial insurance environment essential
• Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across commercial lines insurance operations
• Excellent interpersonal skills, through written and verbal communication skills
• Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios within a commercial environment
• Strong trading capability – commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships
• Pragmatic decision maker with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning
• Excellent risk assessment and risk management skills

Progress towards Dip CII qualification