Senior Mid Market Underwriter

Overview

As we build on our continued success and expand our reach, we"re excited about an opportunity for an experienced, forward-thinking Senior Fleet Underwriter to join our growing team. This role offers an exceptional chance to shape the future of AXA Commercial, establish key foundations, and drive our growth story forward. If you re passionate about underwriting and ready to make a real impact, we want to hear from you.

As Senior Fleet Underwriter you ll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you ll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed. You ll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth, through our existing book of business, as well as contributing to the acquisition of new business.

• Underwrite existing Mid-Market business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices, using the full range of tools available.
• Build trading relationships with brokers, through visits and large case liaison, to maximise financial results and to generate pipeline new business opportunities.
• Contribute to meetings with brokers and end customers to portray AXA capabilities and secure new business opportunities.

• We ll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow:
  It s our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That s why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.
• Build a career that s as dynamic as the market you work in:
  We re on a journey of transformation, so we re investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.
• Shape your career one decision at a time:
  We ll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans. AXA is happy to support you in obtaining the FIT / Cert / Dip CII qualifications.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team, and our customers. You ll work at least 60% of your week away from home, at our office location in Birmingham, visiting clients or attending industry events. We re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of our people in protecting what matters most to our customers. In exchange we offer a series of core and supporting benefits designed to empower our people to thrive both professionally and personally. We believe in hiring people who possess the appropriate skills and values that align with our vision. Our selection process is fair and equitable, ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to join us.

We are dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion, and we actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we take pride in treating our employees and potential hires with respect and without discrimination based on any Protected Characteristics. AXA UK is recognised as a Disability Confident Leader and actively encourages applications from people who face barriers in the workplace due to a disability or long-term health condition.

We participate in the Disability Confident  Offer of Interview  scheme.

• You ll need to show you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job advert or job description.
• You don t need to share the details of your long term health condition or disability for your application to be considered under this scheme.
• As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
• This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, our rewards package is reviewed regularly. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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