Digital Commercial Underwriter

Job description

Digital Commercial Underwriter

Salary between £21,700 - £28,000

We have an exciting opportunity to join our SME Digital Trading Team as a Digital Commercial Underwriter! The team is responsible for digital accounts covering both commercial motor and commercial business, along with building credible relationships with brokers and the direct market.

A bit about the job:
As the Digital Commercial Underwriter, you will be aligned to a portfolio of customers/brokers and be responsible for proactively developing our SME digital book of business. You will deliver excellent broker/customer experience and technical underwriting support in a fast-paced multi demand channel environment.

This role could be ideal if you’re seeking a fantastic opportunity to build a career in insurance as an underwriter within a fast-paced dynamic company! Full training will be provided, we are flexible with experience, but you will need to have exposure of working in a fast-paced environment - for example from a customer service, banking, insurance or contact centre background.

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Responsible for underwriting profitable business whilst operating within agreed guidelines and authority levels

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Develop, build and strengthen relationships with aligned customers/brokers

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Understand what matters to the customer/broker and how that fits with our plans and strategies

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Influence key contacts in the marketplace through business development/customer engagement skills

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Identify and implement in a timely manner, required improvements to underwriting quality and capability

Aviva uses “smart-working”, - you will be expected to work in the office upon obtaining relevant licence.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

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Enthusiastic and keen to learn

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Confident speaking and having difficult conversations with brokers

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Work independently, within underwriting authority, handling more complex risks and technical referrals from the team, conferring where appropriate

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Experience working in a team environment

What you’ll get for this role:

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Salary between £21,700 - £28,000 depending on experience with licence level step pay. Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)

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Eligibility for annual performance bonus

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Family friendly parental and carer’s leave

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25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

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Up to 40% discount for Aviva products

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Brilliant flexible benefits

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Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme

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21 volunteering hours per year

Aviva is for everyone:

We are inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way.  So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.

Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Lacey Lane Mckoy a call on 07385425912 or send an email to lacey.lane-mckoy@aviva.com