Primary Details
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Underwriter – Property D&F
Role Highlights
- London, with hybrid working
- Enhance your career in an exciting and ever-changing environment
The Opportunity
We currently have an opportunity for an Underwriter to join our growing D&F Property London based team.
In this role, you’ll work in an underwriting-led culture that empowers our people, values technical excellence and supports autonomy. In this market-facing, trading role you’ll help shape and grow our D&F Property offering, underwriting complex risks across international and specialty business.
Your new role
- Underwrite Direct & Facultative Property risks, with exposure to complex, international business
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including customers, brokers, and colleagues, to maximize influence and support business goals
- Develop strategic relationships in line with the Business Plan to facilitate the achievement of objectives
- Ensure compliance with insurance strategy to mitigate risk and achieve business plan targets
- Participate actively in shaping and developing strategy, knowledge, and best practices within the team.
- Maintain underwriting standards, instructions, and best practices to minimise risk and enhance efficiency
- Stay updated on market dynamics and demonstrate market cycle awareness to operate effectively
- Motivate and develop the team by demonstrating good leadership behaviours and management best practice so as to support the achievement of business goals
About you
- Experience within Property Underwriting, International or US
- Deep technical understanding of Property wordings, structures and programme design
- Commercial acumen to grasp key profit drivers and maximise long-term wealth for shareholders
- Intermediate proficiency in relevant software, including Excel and other departmental tools
- Excellent organisational, prioritisation, and interpersonal skills
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances.
As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:
As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!
- 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
- Flexible working-balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours.
- Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.
To learn more about benefits of working with us, click Rewarding our people – QBE European Operations
Skills
Business Management, Collaboration Tools, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Environmental Awareness, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Portfolio Management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.
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