Overview
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Team - Underwriting & Claims - Life
Working Pattern - Hybrid / Remote based - 2 days per week in any of the Vitality Offices (Bournemouth, London or Stockport). Home working will also be considered. Full time, 37.5 hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Key Skills
- Broad experience of underwriting large cases requiring financial & medical underwriting
- Ability to build trusted relationships and influence outcomes effectively
- Able to demonstrate strategic thinking and mentoring ability
Responsibilities
- Underwrite HNW cases in accordance with Vitality's underwriting philosophy and quality standards
- Meet and support brokers to help manage key large cases through the underwriting process
- Liaise with our reinsurers to ensure successful placement of business
- Work with our sales teams to develop bespoke financial underwriting solutions for key clients
- Educate the sales teams on the large case ‘underwriting journey’ and how to navigate this
- Help mentor and develop less experienced underwriters
- Identify how we can improve our HNW underwriting proposition, so that we have the most compelling HNW underwriting proposition in the market
What you need to thrive
- A sound knowledge of the reinsurance and retrocession aspects of this business
- Existing relationships and credibility with advisors who work in this market
- A very high level of credibility and influence with the reinsurance market
- Experience of working closely with and mentoring senior underwriters (ideally including underwriters based at different locations)
- Excellent knowledge of all aspects of financial and medical underwriting
- Strong presentation skills
- Good communicator and influencer/manages conflict well
- Good grasp of Microsoft Office products
Benefits & What’s in it for you
- Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12% - We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance - Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer!
To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page.
Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
Commitment to you
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.
Details
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Finance and Sales
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