Business Development
Insurance
Greater London
Exceptional salary plus benefits

Real Estate Development Underwriter

Ref: 4253| Posted: 24th Sep 2024

Are you hungry to make a real impact? This is an exciting, rare opportunity for an experienced and motivated Development Underwriter to truly showcase your skillset. A talented underwriter and consummate people person, you will be uniquely pivotal to helping a dynamic and fast-growing business achieve its very ambitious expansion plans.

In this highly rewarding, newly created role, you are a crucial element to the company’s strategy for success through broadening its product offer. Working closely with the leadership team, your mission will be to deliver high-quality, compliant quotations, while developing strong relationships with broker partners. Your specific skills will be vital as the company branches into exciting and challenging new product classes.

You’ll bring the experience and expertise to deliver an outstanding underwriting service to new broker clients who have been referred to you regarding property owners’ insurance.

To thrive in the role, you’ll need a strong background in underwriting, and a passion and talent for instigating and building lasting relationships with brokers.

Like you, the company is committed to excellence, innovation and growth. The position will therefore offer hybrid flexibility, including working 2 days in the friendly and bustling Croydon office and 3 days from home.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Ensuring accurate underwriting in compliance with guidelines, using your knowledge to bind quality business and achieve profitable growth.
  • Establishing, building and nurturing strong relationships through regular communication and excellent service·
  • Managing and following up on insurer surveys, ensuring all deadlines and risk improvement requirements are met.
  • Overseeing administrative duties, including policy documentation processing and management.
  • Acting as a technical referral point and mentor for team members, providing training and support as needed.
  • Contributing to achieving team and business unit targets, delivering on monthly KPIs.

To be successful in this role, you will have proven experience supporting new brokers with your underwriting expertise. Alongside this you will bring:

  • Strong technical knowledge of underwriting Property/Property Owners insurance.
  • Understanding of the broker market, with the ability to develop and maintain effective relationships.
  • Ability to work well under pressure, adapt to change, and remain flexible in approach.
  • Minimum of 5+ years of Real Estate underwriting experience (desirable)

You will enjoy being part of a supportive, friendly, forward-thinking team that values collaboration, innovation, and personal development. With opportunities to grow, a competitive salary plus a performance-based bonus, and a range of benefits, this is a role where your expertise and ambition can truly shine.

Benefits include

  • Highly attractive base salary (DOE)
  • Holiday 26 days plus bank holidays
  • Group life Assurance x4 salary
  • Company sick pay for 4 weeks
  • Pension
  • Benefits start from your start date
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Season ticket loan and loads of flexible benefits to choose from!

Please apply for the role by submitting your most up-to-date CV.

At Insure Recruitment, we work with clients who are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the above description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be exactly what we’re looking for in this or other roles.