Aviva is currently seeking a Commercial Mid-Market Lead Underwriter specialising in Property & Casualty to join our London International Broker Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a growing team, dealing with International Brokers in the London market. The role is predominantly based in London, with this being one of our key trading locations, and you will benefit from Aviva’s smart working arrangements, with a mix of home and office working.

As a Lead Underwriter you’ll provide an outstanding service to our customers and brokers. You’ll drive new business and professional relationships, directly contributing to the underwriting profit and loss, trading, and service delivery goals. In addition to this, you’ll also be responsible for mentoring and coaching colleagues within the team and creating tailor made solutions for our customers.  This role could be ideal for you, if you’re a dynamic trader with leaderships skills, a strong industry led background and track record of winning new business.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop, build, and strengthen positive relationships with aligned customers/brokers, providing technical support and dealing with all queries

• Influence key contacts in the marketplace through business development and customer engagement

• Understand what matters to customers and brokers to provide the right solution and deliver the best outcomes that reflect the Aviva underwriting strategy and values

• Act as a role model, provide mentoring and share ideas to contribute towards continued capability improvement in our business

• Embrace, develop and deliver our underwriting strategy

• Identify and implement any required improvements to underwriting quality and capability

• Apply the core principles of insurance to everyday situations e.g., advising on the scope of policy cover, risk management strategy, identifying potential claims and arranging insurance that will meet customer needs

• Acts as the technical authority within the team, responsible for underwriting profitable business whilst operating within agreed guidelines and authority levels

Skills & Experience

• Good underwriting knowledge in property and casualty with proven track record of winning New Business. Other lines of business such as real estate, speciality lines and motor are desirable but not essential

• Experience with applying underwriting knowledge to improve processes and procedures

• Experience with managing your own underwriting caseload within a regulatory environment

• Excellent business development and customer engagement/relationship building skills

• Strong communication and negotiation skills

• Have a Diploma in CII or a willingness to study for and obtain the CII qualifications

What will you get for this role?

• A competitive salary depending on skills, experience, and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Manisha Dinesh a call on 07393 803498 or send an email to manisha.dinesh@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.