Commercial Fleet Underwriter in Bolton

Location: Bolton

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: AXA

Job Hours: Full-time

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Closing date: 31/05/2024

Career area: Underwriting

Specialism: Underwriting

Salary: Dependent on experience

About the role

At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we've got them covered.

Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current teams with experienced, engaging, and forward-thinking Commercial Underwriters. These roles provide a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative, that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.

As a Fleet Commercial Underwriter, part of our National Trading Centre (NTC), you'll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you'll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed. You'll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth, across new and existing business within the key markets.

This is an exciting time to be joining the NTC, which is led by a leadership team each with over 20 years' experience in the insurance industry.

What you'll be doing:

We'll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow: It's our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That's why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.

Build a career that's as dynamic as the market you work in: We're on a journey of transformation, so we're investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.

Shape your career one decision at a time: We'll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.

Underwrite new and existing Mid-Market business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of tools available.

Build trading relationships with brokers, through visits and large case liaison, to maximise financial results and to generate pipeline new business opportunities.

Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers to portray AXA capabilities and secure new business opportunities.

At AXA we are committed to developing our employees, so you can be the best that you can be and contribute to the ongoing success of our business.

If you're looking to join a dynamic team and develop your career within a supportive and empowering environment this could the right move for you.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

About you

What we’re looking for:

Keep an open mind: Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.

Stay Curious: You’ll be perceptive of what our customers and the market wants and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA’s development opportunities.

Be a team player: Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.

Strong trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills, ability to build strong broker relationships, within a Commercial Fleet environment.

Pragmatic decision making with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.

Strong analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.

Proven experience in decision making on a wide range of underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment.

Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across commercial lines insurance operations.

Knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance, including treating customers fairly.

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

What we offer

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

Competitive salary dependent on experience

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)

Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave

AXA employee discounts

Gym benefits

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