- Leadership & Strategy: Lead and mentor a team of underwriters, set underwriting strategy, ensure performance against key metrics, and maintain strong loss ratios.
- Binder & Capacity Management: Day-to-day oversight of binders, managing underwriting within delegated limits, capacity relationships, exposure monitoring, rate movements, and claims trends.
- Broker Relationship Development: Build, manage, and grow broker and agent relationships. You’ll be out in the market—lunches, golf courses, and pub meetings included.
- Business Development: Develop and implement action plans for growth across new and existing markets.
- Operational Management: Ensure efficient underwriting operations, continuous process improvement, and a high-performance culture.
- Financial Oversight: Monitor underwriting profitability, contribute to budgeting, and ensure strong financial performance.
- Compliance: Ensure full FCA compliance and robust risk management practices.
- Team Building: Help attract and nurture top talent, while building a collaborative and high-energy culture.
- Proven technical underwriting expertise across Property & Casualty lines in the UK commercial market.
- Strong market reputation with existing broker relationships and experience within delegated authority models.
- A natural leader with a growth mindset and strong commercial acumen.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced MGA environment.
- High-level understanding of FCA regulatory compliance.
- Strategic thinker who’s also hands-on with underwriting decisions and capacity management.
- Minimum Cert CII (or working towards) preferred.