Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: London

Job ref: 203699

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Team Underwriting Manager to join our Real Estate team in our London office.

This is a hybrid role combining hands-on underwriting with people management. You'll spend part of your time acting as a senior underwriter, managing your renewal book, developing and maintaining broker relationships, and securing new business, as well as line managing a small team of underwriting assistants, managing operational tasks and supporting the wider Real Estate team. 

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Develop, negotiate, and profitably underwrite new / existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
• Manage individual performance of direct reports
• Provide support to the Operations Manager and deputise as required
• Set and monitor team and individual service targets on an annual, weekly and daily basis to maximise team performance and meet objectives
• Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business in line with company policy

What you'll need to have 

• Demonstrable market and industry knowledge, with experience of underwriting Real Estate business
• The ability to build collaborative, productive relationships
• Pro-active with desire to continuously improve
• Competent IT and data skills
• Commitment to deliver exceptional service contributing both as an individual and as an effective part of a team

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
• Hybrid working
  
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Hear from the hiring manager

"We're a highly successful team that's grown and developed over recent years - we pride ourselves on creating a supportive work environment, providing exceptional service, and building strong relationships with our brokers."

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26