Branch Underwriting Manager - Birmingham at AXA Health

What you’ll be doing:

• Deliver planned underwriting result through underwriting account management financial planning, account monitoring and analysis of underwriting trends.
• Take responsibility for profitability, underwriting governance and control of all business traded through the Branch.
• Demonstrate loss ratio control by effectively implementing and monitoring underwriting controls.
• Build a reputation as an underwriting expert and build confidence in the Branch’s underwriting capability.
• Set and monitor underwriting standards across the Branch ensuring effective management and deployment of empowerment, whilst creating clarity for underwriters seeking to progress through licence levels.
• Coach and develop underwriting staff, fostering a culture of high performance.
• Lead teams to deliver upon financial KPI’s including new business, retention, rate, pipeline and GWP.
• Lead underwriting relationships with key customers and brokers.
• Role model good decision-making behaviours, on technical and trading issues, that sets the tone to deliver strategic objectives.
• Manage the underwriting team through effective performance management to continuously develop the capabilities of the Branch.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

What you’ll bring:

• Previous experience of working at a senior level within a commercial insurance environment.
• Sound understanding of insurance market and processes.
• Excellent relationship management skills and experience of building successful long-term relationships both internally and externally.
• People and resource management skills and the ability to lead and motivate teams.
• Pragmatic decision-making ability with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
• Long and short-term planning and analytical skills with proven experience of both operational and strategic planning.
• Experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios, including large case and portfolio management within a Commercial environment.
• Technical underwriting expertise in a commercial insurance environment.
• Understanding of the profitability of business within the intermediary channel.
• ACII qualifications are desirable.