Trading Underwriter (Engineering)

Job description

Our North Region Construction, Engineering and Renewable Energy Team are currently seeking a Trading Underwriter, operating from our central Leeds office. The regional Construction, Engineering and Renewable Energy Team are responsible for underwriting a multimillion-pound portfolio and business is predominantly transacted via insurance brokers.

As the Trading Underwriter, you’ll provide a first-class service to our customers/brokers. You’ll drive new business and professional relationships, directly contributing to the underwriting profit and loss, trading and service delivery goals.

Although our preference is for someone with an Engineering Insurance background, we are happy to consider ambitious, motivated and talented Underwriters from other insurance and trading backgrounds with an understanding regarding Construction, Engineering, Renewable Energy insurance. Our training programme will help you to make an immediate impact on our business, helping you to build your business knowledge, develop professional skills and grow effective relationships with clients and colleagues.

Responsibilities in the role:

• Provide quotations for renewals, new business and alterations whilst operating within agreed guidelines and authority levels
• Build positive relationships with internal and external customers and brokers to deliver the underwriting strategy
• Contribute to improving the efficiency within the team through Systems Thinking methodology and by utilising our digital trading platforms wherever possible
• Support more senior members of the team in their underwriting and client servicing administration

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience of applying underwriting knowledge to effectively improve processes/procedures
• Experience of being responsible for own underwriting caseload within a regulatory environment, following due process and within set authority limits
• Ability to analyse complex information and draw out the relevant facts along with strong attention to detail
• Excellent business development/customer engagement skills in order to influence key contacts in the marketplace
• Familiarity with the relevant departmental and Aviva-wide policies, procedures and guidelines

What will you get for this role?

• Competitive salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications
• Generous defined contribution pension scheme
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)
• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Oh and by the way…

At Aviva we always ‘Care More’. It’s our thing. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you need to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. We’ll even try to bend work around your further studies or hobbies where we can.

We care deeply about welcoming people no matter where they’re from, how old they are or what disability they have. We encourage applications from every age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or caring responsibility. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

As part of that we interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you’ve applied and we’ll make sure we interview you.

If you like the sound of all that, we’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you need an alternative method of applying, please contact Lacey Lane Mckoy call on: 0207 255 0884 or ping an email at: lacey.lane-mckoy@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.