Underwriting Supervisor managing a team of underwriters ensuring compliance and profitable growth at Utica National Insurance Group. Overseeing commercial lines insurance policies and enhancing agency partnerships.
About the role
- Head of Underwriting at Ecclesiastical Insurance, shaping strategy and driving performance in the Gloucester office. Leading technical excellence and managing key accounts to deliver profitable growth.
Responsibilities
- Own results across GWP, New Business, Retention, Rate Movement, and Profitability - balancing commercial targets with good customer outcomes
- Shape pricing strategies at both portfolio and key account level
- Act as a lead contributor to planning, bringing incisive analysis and constructive challenge
- Set and maintain underwriting standards; actively engage with UK Underwriting Risk Appetite to ensure alignment and adherence
- Use your own authority to best effect; cascade authority appropriately and govern it rigorously
- Translate UW strategy into day-to-day practice, challenging where needed to support customer needs and the business plan
- Lead the quality framework; meet audit and quality metrics or challenge and improve them where they are not fit for purpose - leaving clear, implementable actions
- Drive the underwriting competency framework, building capability and succession
- Create and deliver technical training where relevant
- Act as the senior referral point, disseminate expertise, and keep your own technical edge sharp
- Champion smarter underwriting processes and tools that optimise accuracy, speed, and underwriting quality
- Coach, mentor, and stretch colleagues at all levels; set clear expectations and celebrate high performance
- Collaborate and partner closely within own area and across UK business teams to optimise performance
- Represent underwriting matters confidently with internal stakeholders, key clients and market stakeholders
- Balance portfolio outcomes and customer in your decision making, operate within the regulatory framework
Requirements
- ACII (or equivalent) and a proven track record in a senior underwriting role
- Strong portfolio management expertise and commercial fluency
Benefits
- Competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Hybrid working
- Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
- Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 10% and 40%
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
- £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
- Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Full study support to gain professional qualifications
- Access to virtual GP
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
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