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Regional technical Underwriting Manager

Sector:General Insurance

Region : South West England

Location: Bristol

Salary:

Job Ref.: JMRUM1A

Job Information

Cameron James Professional Recruitment are recognised as an industry leading specialist Insurance Recruiter across the UK and renowned for offering first rate professional advice to all areas of the insurance arena.

A high profile insurer seeks to appoint a Regional Technical Underwriting Manager to join its specialist team based in Bristol. My client provides a wide range of general insurance products and is widely recognized for its technical expertise and entrepreneurial approach. As a result of recent growth and branch development, a new role has been created within the underwriting division, this high profile position has been made available, affording you the opportunity to lead your own team of Underwriters who handle some large accounts. This exciting opportunity will give you regular exposure to some of the most senior figures within the organisation.

You will contribute to the development of strategic plans designed to deliver the agreed target combined operating ratio over the long term and support the delivery of long term objectives. You will be responsible for driving technical excellence and trading behaviors across a team of over 80 underwriters along with building relationships with the agents and brokers and also with Head Office Underwriting. You will also have management responsibility for a team of senior Technicians and Development Underwriters.

You should have the following:-
- Proven experience and ability to lead and motivate underwriting teams.?
- Pragmatic decision maker with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills
- Sound understanding of insurance market and processes across cross lines insurance operations
- Excellent relationship management skills and experience of building successful long term relationships both internal and external.
- Strong long and short term planning and analytical skills with proven experience of both operational and strategic planning in previous roles
- proven experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios within a commercial environment
- Strong communicator / influencer at senior management level

You will be rewarded with an attractive salary that has been calculated to ‘attract the best’, and a comprehensive range of other company benefits.

ACII or working towards is desirable