Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent 

Location: Gloucester 

Job ref: 204279

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Underwriter to join our Gloucester office.

This Underwriting position sits within our Church Operations Department and primarily supports our church customer base on a direct basis. The role involves assessing a range of underwriting activities including building works, unoccupied risks, surveys, renewals, and general enquiries. Applicants should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with confidence in handling phone enquiries. While industry knowledge is desirable, it is not essential. This opportunity offers scope for development and progression within a supportive and purpose-driven environment.

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 

• Developing, negotiating, and profitably underwriting existing business caseload within own authority and in line with rate/commercial strategy, delivering underwriting excellence through specialist knowledge and support.
• Planning, prioritising and managing individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLAs to deliver exceptional customer service.
• Effectively and appropriately communicating with direct customers through a variety of communication channels.
• Being pro-active with a desire to continuously improve.
• Actively expanding personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD)

What you'll need to have 

• The ability to plan, prioritise and manage own work to deliver agreed objectives and meet targets.
• Effective and appropriate communication skills
• Understand, manage, and use information with accuracy.
• Competent IT and data skills (including Microsoft suite)

What makes you stand out

• Cert CII or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale.
• Industry knowledge would be an advantage

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

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