Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent 

Location: Brighton

About the role

Ansvar, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Trainee Underwriter to join the team at our Brighton office and build a career that challenges you, grows with you, and rewards your ambition

We’re looking for someone who’s curious, driven, and ready to dive into the dynamic world of risk, strategy, and decision-making. This is more than just a job—it’s your gateway to a thriving career in insurance.

As a Trainee Underwriter at Ansvar, you will learn the fundamentals of insurance from experienced trainers and mentors, and will play a crucial role in the business in supporting service delivery by acting as part of a processing and administration team. This will give you the foundation that you need to develop into a fully-fledged Underwriter, developing, negotiating and profitably underwriting business.

Why join us?

At Ansvar, you are part of a collaborative, inclusive, ambitious culture committed to making a difference and working towards a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UKs top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities, with all of our profits going to charity and good causes. We fund the cost of your qualifications, give you paid study time, and provide the support and resources you need to progress your career.

What you'll be doing

• Learning the fundamentals of underwriting and insurance from experienced coaches and mentors
• Studying for your CII qualifications which will formally recognise your knowledge skills and experience, and support you to succeed and progress in your career
• Calling out to our brokers to build relationships and understand the needs of our customers
• Inputting data accurately and efficiently, recognising and rectifying where quality standards have been missed
• Acting as a triage service for new business to refer the case to correct team member
• Processing and underwriting new business, midterm adjustments and renewals
• Building effective internal relationships to deliver exceptional customer service and support Ansvar’s right first-time approach
• Acting on audit results and agreed actions plans to improve own performance and enhance the effectiveness of the team and track output

What you'll need to have 

• Confidence on the phone, asking questions and building rapport
• A commitment to exceptional customer service, and getting it right first time for our customers
• A commitment to completing CertCII with an agreed timeframe
• Ambition and drive to grow and develop, and progress your career

What makes you stand out

• Experience working in a fast-paced, high volume, customer facing environment
• Experience working in an insurance or financial services environment preferred

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

Ansvar specialise in insurance to the third sector. We cover thousands of risks in the UK, and unlike other insurers, our products are specifically designed for the niches we insure.

Driven by our values of empathy, professionalism and trust, we hold a genuine desire to positively impact the communities we help protect.

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