Underwriting Team Manager

Job description

Role Description

Voted by our brokers as the market leading provider of Engineering Inspection Services for the 14th consecutive year in a row, this is an exciting time to join our growing business.

Following recent internal promotion, we are looking for a dedicated Underwriting Team Manager to lead and support our fantastic North Inspection underwriting team. This role offers the right candidate the opportunity to help shape the next phase of our journey.

This is an excellent position for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who is looking for the next step in their people leadership and operational management career. You will have the opportunity to drive performance, coach and develop colleagues and bring a positive mindset to every opportunity presented.

The role is based in Manchester and will report into the AEIS National Operations Manager.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £50,000 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

The right candidate will be a strong operational team leader who will work within an established team of Engineering Inspection underwriters:

• Taking ownership of day-to-day operational results
• Driving continuous improvement
• Taking accountability for ensuring delivery of a high standard of service to both external and internal customers
  
  

Essential Skills

Leadership:

• Experience of leading a team, monitoring performance and ensuring your team is focused on the key challenges delivering exceptional service.
• Accountable – a track record of owning and delivering on decisions, seeing them through.
• Enjoy interacting with others, building strong internal and external relationships and have excellent communication skills to drive and foster a positive team culture.
• Confident leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions and drive the best commercial outcome.
• You should thrive in a fast-paced environment and get a sense of achievement meeting goals and targets.
• Digitally curious – willing and able to embrace new and emerging technology.
• Evidence of personal and professional development and commitment to undertake continued professional development.
  
  

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 and enthusiastically support change and drive morale as required.
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Inspection and or Insurance experience is an advantage.
  
  

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days
  
  

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Daniel Leeming

Closing date: 15th June 2025

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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