Underwriting Manager

Company: Brown & Brown UK

Location: London

Posted: April 11th, 2026

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Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant at Brown & Brown Europe

Location: London

Brown & Brown, Inc. is one of the largest insurance brokers globally, having in excess of $4.8bn revenue in 2024 by providing risk management solutions to help protect what our customers value most. We have experienced significant growth over the last 5 years both organic and inorganic and have recently achieved significant scale across Europe with ~3,500 teammates, 200+ offices.

Our Strategy is to double the size of the business by improving customer experience, growing organically and acquiring, accelerating knowledge and capabilities of teammates and using technology with purpose.

As a key member of the leadership team, you will be responsible for the portfolio management for the Commercial programs delivering the underwriting and pricing strategy. You will provide oversight and ensure best practice is achieved through embedded technical standards & controls. Working with the trading and claims teams you will monitor progress of the company business objectives. This will be primarily to ensure underwriting performance keeps within target loss ratios for all distribution channels whilst delivering our income budget.

Duties will include:

Responsibility for and oversight of underwriting, pricing and loss ratio performance
Ensure loss ratio performance is within agreed targets for all Commercial programs
Deal with referrals from the trading team to ensure they win and retain business whilst delivering sustainable results
Support the Underwriting Director by providing information and data for our carrier partners for monthly meetings and QBR’s
Proactively support defining, implementing and overseeing our underwriting and pricing strategy
Work with actuaries to monitor the development of open and closed underwriting years
Oversight and involvement of all products from a technical underwriting perspective ensuring they meet their target market and deliver fair value
Develop and manage technical and pricing controls
Support the Governance team with internal/external audits and product governance
Support the production of Board and ExCo packs as required including presenting when requested
Adhere to all regulatory requirements and conduct regime
Provide learning material and take part in delivery of technical underwriting training

Experience required:

Required:

Proven track record in underwriting leadership within an MGA, Insurer or Lloyd’s environment
10+ years of UK commercial liability underwriting experience
In depth knowledge and understanding of commercial lines underwriting
Policy wording drafting
Dip CII

Advantageous:

ACII (or working towards)
Previous experience in the MGA market
Understanding of the commercial programs market
Experience of carrier contract negotiations
Creation and delivery of underwriting training
Data and analytics skills

For more information please apply online or contact Dan Hurley.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Other and Sales
Industries
Insurance

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